undergoingl conservation and they are all on public view. >> we're standing here in the large wet lab at the mariners museum in newport news, virginia. what we do at the conversation facility is take objects there were once in a marina buyer men underneath the water and extract salt and stabilize objects to put -- in marineena -- in a environment and we extract salt and stabilize objects to put them on display. this was the first revolving gun tour it on a ship in history. see is in the large tank we behind us. it is currently undergoing a electrochemical treatment to and corrosion products from the surface of the object. the on that is the monitor's main engine. that is the monitor's main engine. is a vibrating side lever steam engine. in the front tank below is a condenser that collected i exhausted steam and converted it back to water that could either be pumped into the ocean or reused. knowing this project could take a couple of decades, one of our initial thoughts was how can we best show the public and teach them the conservation process. early on, when we built the facility, w