The powerful rams which once lifted and lowered the fery ramp can still be seen in the Navy Hall. The back deck and three story rall waterside windows look out on the Glenn M. Anderson Channel of the Port of Los Angeles, across Terminal Island toward the Port of Long Beach, and out to San Pedro Bay. The bay is home to America's largest artificial harbor and most prosperous ports. Daily, large ships pass the Museum carrying cargo, cars, passengers and petroleum to and from ports of call around the world.

Today, the Maritime Museum is the largest on the Pacific Coast. Housed within, are seven galleries containing larte collections of beautifully crafted models, some made famous in Hollywood films. In addition to the large model collection are paintings, sailor crafts, seafarilng artifacts, and memorabilia reflecting the maritime heritage of the greater Los Angeles harbor and pacific from prehistoric times to the present.

Docked on the channel side of the building is the floating collection of the Museum, including the ST class tug "Angles Gate", early twentieth centruy Monterey fishing boats, "Domani" and "Bornagain", and the 1920s racing yacht "Ocean Waif". Also, berthed at the Museum's back deck is the "Swift of Ipswich", the sail training topsail schooner of the Maritime Institute, an educational affiliate of the Museum.

Listen to the creak and roll of old sailing ships, smell the rigging tar, stand at the flying bridge of the "USS Los Angeles", speak with amateur radio operators around the would, watch master modelers at work, feel the sea breeze in your face, and take home a memry of a seafaring adventure.