Overview & visitor information
The Intrepid Museum is centered on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid at Pier 86 on the Hudson River. Commissioned in 1943, the ship survived five kamikaze attacks and a torpedo strike during the Second World War, later serving through the Cold War and Vietnam War and as a NASA recovery vessel.
Its flight and hangar decks display military and civilian aircraft, while the Space Shuttle Pavilion contains Enterprise, NASA's prototype orbiter. The collection also includes the record-setting British Airways Concorde Alpha Delta G-BOAD and the Cold War submarine Growler, whose confined operational spaces are open as a separate onboard route.
Restored compartments, crew accounts, artifacts and interactive exhibits connect large machines with the people who designed, maintained and operated them. Moving between carrier decks, submarine passageways and the shuttle pavilion reveals radically different engineering responses to ocean, air and space within a single waterfront museum complex.
