Ever wonder how an aircraft carrier works? Come aboard and spend the night living with history on the ultimate overnight adventure and find out how USS Hornet’s sailors lived and worked on this city at sea! Designed for ages 7 and up, this is a perfect group activity for scouts, youth groups, schools, friends, and families!
Introducing new overnight program for 2022!
Night Wings: Aviation Themed Overnight
Now is your chance to earn your wings while spending the night onboard a historic aircraft carrier. During our aviation themed overnight program you will get a chance to meet real pilots and learn the science behind flight. Your evening includes tours of the ship, The 4 Forces of Flight STEM activity, meet and greet with a Navy pilot, and the opportunity to sit in a cockpit. Come aboard and spend the night living with history on the ultimate overnight adventure and find out how USS Hornet’s aviators lived and worked on this city at sea! Designed for ages 7 and up, this is a perfect group activity for scouts, youth groups, schools, friends, and families!
During Night Wings you will tour key areas of the ship to see various spaces and systems and discuss the history, science, and engineering behind them. As you move around the ship, you can participate in several hands-on science stations and demonstrations interspersed with seeing sailors’ living spaces! The experience includes:
All Overnight Guests must be at least 7 years old
Come aboard and spend the night living with history with the ultimate overnight adventure! The Museum’s Live-Aboard Overnight Program was one of the first of its kind and a model for overnight Museum adventures.
Explore the decks of this famous World War II ship from the Captain’s Bridge to our Sickbay as you walk in the footsteps of astronauts and heroes aboard the ship that proudly recovered the first men to walk on the Moon, the Apollo 11 and 12 lunar mission astronauts.
The Live-Aboard program includes an evening tour, breakfast and dinner in the original Enlisted Mess, late-night ghost stories, and more! The program is suitable for all age ranges and its standard single-night stays are divided into: