National Naval Aviation Museum

We’ve been to several military museums over the last few months, so we had skipped the one in Pensacola.  I didn’t realize how big a museum this one was.  We thought we had seen most of the museum when we realized that there was a second floor and another building.

This is a naval aviation museum so carriers and carrier planes are a big portion of the displays.  There was an interesting film on carrier training in Lake Michigan during World War II along with lots of information on carriers and planes that fold up to be stored in carriers.

Carriers are a LITTLE too big for this museum, but they had sections where you can see specific rooms like the bunk room, sick bay, dark room, etc.  Plus they had quite a few models of carriers to show how they developed and changed through the years.