Every ship begins somewhere.

Long before Battleship IOWA ever touched water, she existed as lines on paper — a blueprint of compartments, corridors, and decks waiting to become steel. Step into that same real space today, where her original layout is overlaid directly onto the deck around you. Read the labels, trace the rooms, and stand exactly where she was first drawn into being.

From there, the journey continues into an actual ship cutaway, where blueprint gives way to the real thing — showing exactly how sailors lived, worked, and served within these walls.