USS Yorktown Museum

Protecting Historic Items

Newsflash: the USS Yorktown was designed and built to be an aircraft carrier, not a museum. Nevertheless, when it was decommissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1970, a museum it became. Finding the right way to store their treasures was a challenge worth meeting.

Download the case study to learn how USS Yorktown found a way to display and properly preserve their treasures including the collection of flags that commemorates the ship itself, the country it represents and the times during which it sailed.