Something just came to me. A museum could pick a ship, nothing all that big, say the Monitor and/or the Virginia and build one out of wood and make it look like the real thing. It could be a cutaway or a walk through. There wasn’t much to them and they weren’t that big. Or you could do the same thing with parts of a ship, say the bridge and have a scenis view out the windows, maybe a gun turret, say a small one, or a 40mm gun. It would be a lot cheaper that getting the sections of a real ship.
Just a passing thought.
Done
The WWII Museum In New Orleans has a bridge scene, supposedly the Enterprise in one of their galleries. (Or is it the War in the Pacific museum in Fredericksburg TX). Problem one) The vision ports are at 5 feet off the floor limiting child vision. Problem two) The bulkheads ate smooth, lacking all the wiring, speakers, and repeaters present on bridge. Also no binacle, engine order telegraph, and helm.
IIRC, the Navy museum at the Washington Navy Yard has a much more gooder bridge representation of a destroyer
Also, IIRC, NASM on the mall in DC has a PriFly representation with movies of aircraft landing & taking off just outside the window