This room has two recreated Monitor turrets. On the left is a cutaway of what it would have looked right out of the shipyard, and on the right is a very realistic recreation of the salvaged turret and guns. DW5D4319
Inside the recreated "just-salvaged" Monitor turret with the Dahlgren guns found intact. DW5D4304
Despite the realistic appearance of the Monitor's turret in the previous picture, the real turret is located in a lab on the museum grounds submerged in a preservative chemical bath. DW5D4321