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Originally Posted by LAT

Queen Mary to open Ship Model Gallery, plans maritime museum

When the Queen Mary in Long Beach opens its new Ship Model Gallery on Thursday, look for a miniature Winston Churchill.

The tiny former British prime minister appears with a top hat strolling on the deck of a 20-foot-long shipbuilder's model of the Queen Mary. During World War II, Churchill crossed the Atlantic Ocean three times on the ship.

The new model gallery is part of a much more ambitious plan for the landmark hotel aboard the ship, which has been in Long Beach since 1967. The plan is to create a 65,000-square-foot maritime museum and learning center aboard the ship.

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb...203-story.html
http://www.queenmary.com/tours-exhib...ns/ship-model/