Thank you for your interest in efforts to rebuild the USS Arizona Memorial’s Museum & Visitor Center.  This website is an effort to keep people like you informed on the progress of the $58 million campaign, the incredible support received from dedicated individuals and organizations, and what you can do to help us finish the job.

For 29 years, the Visitor Center has welcomed millions of people from all over the world as they paid their respects to the fallen of Pearl Harbor.  The new Museum & Visitor Center will continue that tradition in the following innovative ways:

• accommodate the vastly increased number of people that visit each year with expanded, comfortable, and ecologically aware facilities.
• provide in-depth interpretation of what happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 through comprehensive, state-of-the-art audio/visual displays; the use of rare, historical photographs, charts, maps, and more to extensively analyze events leading up to the attack through the post-attack salvage efforts; and new, “tactile” presentations allowing visitors to feel the history of Pearl Harbor.
• Climate-controlled exhibit cases allowing many more of the priceless artifacts of Pearl Harbor history to be displayed.

While much has been done, much remains to be accomplished.  With your continuing support we can FINISH THE JOB.  Please look through the pages that follow and see how you can contribute to the incredible transformations taking place at the USS Arizona Memorial.

New Visitor Center Progress posts from the Pearl Harbor Blog

• New Visitor Center – Progress
  

  Everyday that I walked by the construction zone I would peek through the fence just to see how far the new Visitor Center was coming along, but you can only see so much through a hole in the fence. Last week Thursday, I had a chance to tag along on a VIP tour of the [...]
  

• New Visitor Center photos
  

  Watts Constructors, the contractor chosen to build the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum & Visitor Center, has posted a series of time-lapse photos of the new Visitor Center’s construction on their website.

  http://www.wattsconstructors.com/arizonamemorial/ (visitors may have to download a plug-in known as “Silverlight.”)

  While the official dedication of the Visitor Center won’t be until December 7, 2010 [...]