[1] Recent exhibits include a 27-foot model of the RMS Queen Mary made entirely out of one million toothpicks.

The collection includes ship models from the movies Tora!

Tora!, Cleopatra, and Ben-Hur as well as from the television series Tugboat Annie Sails Again.

[2] The museum was featured in a 2005 Chicago Tribune cover story.

“Sadorus Man and the Sea.” Herald & Review (Decatur, IL), 10 May 2010.