Southstreet Seaport Museum

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The South Street Seaport Museum turned out to be a lot more interesting than originally anticipated. At first I went to the gallery on the left when your first enter the seaport (not the one where the gift shop is located). I spoke to the old lady, which is respectable, for elderly people have more experience in life. Anyway, she seemed extremely knowledgeable in her variety of information she talked to me about. Initially, she told me to go get tickets, but I went back right after I got the tickets. I thought I would talk about this gallery because it was focused more on the sea and ships, rather than the main gallery (I presume), which had many things, from instruments such as barometers, pistols, and rulers to pictures of famous people.
So I went back and starting talking to her, I was the only one in this part of the museum so I had her undivided attention. The very first things that caught my eye were the models of ships; my brother actually builds model planes, which takes a lot of patient. So they easily captured my attention. The lady told me that they were the original models of the actual ships, which I thought was cool. She said that they were drawn to scale, which was even more amazing. I thought to myself: it must take hard work to build these ships and even more hard work building the actual ship exactly to scale. The lady said because they were drawn to scale I could compare the size of the pools on the different models that they had. Then she drew my attention to the back of the gallery where the biggest model I’ve ever seen in my life and the largest in the gallery: the Queen Mary. When I saw that, my mouth dropped, it was awesome. I mean everything was perfect, from front to back, even the little emergency boats that hung off the side of the ship incase it sunk. I think this was the second best highlight of my trip.
The best highlight of my trip was when I walked to the right of the entrance where
they had recor...