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The vision of the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum and Visitor Center is to be a tribute, an archive, a classroom—but most of all, an unforgettable experience.The current shoreside facility will be replaced by an expanded structure to accommodate the USS Arizona Memorial Museum and Visitor Center’s 1.5 million annual visitors.

The new Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum and Visitor Center will be the world’s primary repository and exhibitor of information surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack and early World War II in the Pacific.

The Plan

The Arizona Memorial Museum Association and the National Park Service have been assessing the needs of the Memorial Museum and Visitor Center and exploring ways to creatively solve the problems, while fulfilling the vision of the new facility. Working closely with The Portico Group, an architectural firm based in Seattle, Washington, several facility site-plan concepts were created and presented.

The elevation and site plan above is one alternative that is creative and effective—both in terms of cost and in resolving all of the Museum’s structural and visitation issues. The total area of the facility will be approximately 24,000 square feet.

The plan is not yet completely final, but it provides us with a blueprint upon which to build our ideas. The new state-of-the-art museum will double the current exhibit capacity and showcase Pearl Harbor survivors’ memorabilia and other artifacts.

Here, thousands of visitors each day will comfortably browse new exhibits about Pearl Harbor and the early Pacific War. The museum will use the latest exhibit technology to bring the Pearl Harbor attack and surrounding events to life.
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Contributed,
YNCS Don Harribine, USN(ret)