{"id":321800,"date":"2023-03-23T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=321800"},"modified":"2023-03-21T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T01:31:19","slug":"nautical-history-gallery-museum-opens-in-arts-district-liberty-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/nautical-history-gallery-museum-opens-in-arts-district-liberty-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Nautical History Gallery & Museum opens in Arts District Liberty Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

What started as a model ship-building hobby for military veteran Joe Frangiosa, Jr. has turned into a full-scale occupation and the new Nautical History Gallery & Museum.<\/p>\n

Located in the historic Dick Laub NTC\u00a0Command Center, 2640 Historic Decatur Road in Arts District Liberty Station, the 800-square-foot The\u00a0Nautical\u00a0History\u00a0Gallery\u00a0and\u00a0Museum<\/a> is curated by Frangiosa. His exhibition showcases carefully constructed displays of realistic miniature naval ship models, as well as a collection of other naval artifacts\u00a0and\u00a0historic period antiques.<\/p>\n

The gallery is a panoramic history of the U.S. Navy, its ships, and how they have evolved over time from the Revolutionary War period, through the Civil War, into the Spanish-American War, then World War I, and World War II, including the beginning of naval aviation.<\/p>\n

It is a \u201cworking\u201d museum, as onsite you will see model ship builder and curator Frangiosa in action working on his latest project. He has built every ship on display and is happy to share the history of each and every museum element.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to create,\u201d said Frangiosa when asked about his inspiration adding \u201cThis is a forever gig, something to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of how his hobby successfully morphed into a museum, Frangiosa said, \u201cAmerica loves miniatures and modeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Youth especially are \u201csmitten\u201d by Frangiosa\u2019s hand-created miniature gallery figures. \u201cKids are just bouncing around the room like crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cThey love the figures because they are made to railroad-model scale and it makes all the ships seem alive. I paint model railroad people to be sailors, which makes the ships come alive with hundreds of figures. The kids pick up on that and love the dollhouse miniature feel of the room. It is really a tribute to the kids. It adds a very fun and inviting \u2018toyish\u2019 feel to the whole place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frangiosa joined the Navy at 19, becoming an aviation boatswains\u2019 mate, and spent his four-year career on the U.S.S. Roosevelt. His term on the ship took him to the Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Caribbean, and many other places which allowed him to visit more than 13 countries. He said he missed the Navy and wanted to go back, but it was not selecting prior sailors, so he finished his 20-year career with the U.S. Marines.<\/p>\n

Of his \u201ccalling,\u201d Frangiosa noted: \u201cYou can\u2019t plan something like this.\u201d He added he is inventing his craft as he goes. \u201cI make my models now from photographs and drawings, which is called storyboarding. I read about them in books, then find all the different stuff you put around it (models), getting pieces like basswood from hobby stores.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frangiosa pointed out that one model leads to another. \u201cEach time I make a model, it is like practice for the next one,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery time I try to do it a little better.\u201d<\/p>\n

After retiring from the military, Frangiosa started \u201ctinkering\u201d with his ship models at home. \u201cI was always finding artifacts, like cannonballs, in antique stores,\u201d he said. \u201cI would buy them and plop it next to the models. So eventually I had these really associative stories around the models themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frangiosa started out exhibiting his ship models in a tiny rented space in a nautical history gallery in La Jolla. \u201cI kept building in there and the space kept getting smaller and smaller,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Now, with the acquisition of his new Liberty Station museum space, Frangiosa is able to truly create his own nautical world. \u201cI make the backdrops look like the hull of a ship, put portholes in the picture so it looks like you are on a ship looking out and seeing a view,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

About 600 people have visited the Nautical History Gallery & Museum since it opened on Feb. 1. Admission is free and Frangiosa wants to keep it that way. But donations are strongly encouraged, and there is a place on the museum\u2019s website where people can contribute.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now I can\u2019t hire staff, but if I get enough donations the museum could be open every day,\u201d Frangiosa said concluding it is part of his mission to \u201cgive back from my military service. This is an open time capsule. Everyone is loving it and thanking me for putting this together, doing the history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n visite https:\/\/sandiegomuseumcouncil.org\/museums\/nautical-history-gallery-museum\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NAUTICAL HISTORY GALLERY & MUSEUM<\/p>\n

Where: The Historic Dick Laub NTC\u00a0Command Center, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Building 200, Suite 108 in Arts District Liberty Station.<\/p>\n

Contact: 619-366-2469.<\/p>\n

Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sundays 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays and Tuesdays.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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