While RXR Realty continues to explore a range of potential commercial uses for the ship tailored to the post-COVID economy, the Conservancy is advancing initial design and content planning for its future shipboard museum. In 2020, the Conservancy's curatorial team solicited input from a broad cross-section of supporters, former passengers and crew, and other maritime history enthusiasts, to provide guidance for our museum planning. More than 1,000 survey responses were carefully reviewed.
The Planning Survey yielded extensive insights into our community’s interests, hopes and visions, which will help to inform our curatorial work and museum planning moving forward. For example, 94% of respondents expressed interest in replica interior spaces - such as sample passenger cabins and the Bridge - being incorporated as part of a storytelling element in the future museum. We will continue to engage our community to ensure the Conservancy is well prepared to create a world-class museum experience that showcases the history of the SS United States, maritime history, the transatlantic liner era, and American cultural identity, technological innovation and artistic expression
