§308705 Designation of America’s National Maritime Museum

Summary

Creates America's National Maritime Museum from museums that meet two rules: they keep a collection of maritime artifacts that show the Nation’s maritime heritage, and they run outreach programs to teach the public about that heritage. The first museums named are The Mariners’ Museum at 100 Museum Drive, Newport News, Virginia, and the South Street Seaport Museum at 207 Front Street, New York, New York. Other museums that meet the same rules can be added later. If any U.S. law, map, rule, or official paper mentions a museum named under this law, it is treated as referring to that museum as part of America’s National Maritime Museum.