This occasional series highlights important dates surrounding the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. Mariners’ Museum staff and volunteers will present these informative, illustrated lectures. Ads in the Washington newspapers announced that the Monitor would be open for public tours during her brief stay at the Navy Yard in the fall of 1862 while she was undergoing repairs. Scores of citizens flocked onboard to see the vessel – and took anything that wasn’t nailed down.  Find out how the Monitor’s officers and crew coped with the crowds, adapted to their new surroundings and met their new comrades in the nation’s capital. Included in regular admission. Adults, $12; AAA members, military, students, $11; seniors, $10; children (6-12), $7.