| National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History | |
| Coordinates: | 39.9669°N -88.3442°W |
| Established: | 2001 |
| Location: | 201 S. Market St. Sadorus, Illinois |
| Type: | Maritime museum |
| Director: | Charles Lozar |
| Website: | National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History |
The National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History is a private non-profit museum, located in Sadorus, Illinois. It features ship models from around the world and throughout history.[1]
Recent exhibits include a 27-foot model of the made entirely out of one million toothpicks. The collection includes ship models from the movies Tora! Tora! Tora!, Cleopatra, and Ben-Hur as well as from the television series Tugboat Annie Sails Again.
The museum is open on Saturdays (11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) Saturdays from April 1 to November 30; also by appointment, including through the winter holidays.[2]
The museum was featured in a 2005 Chicago Tribune cover story.
Reid, Tony. “Sadorus Man and the Sea.” Herald & Review (Decatur, IL), 10 May 2010. Accessed through EBSCOhost. Retrieved 21 June 2019.