Exhibitions
The world class experience of the Navy SEAL Museum has arrived in San Diego, offering exclusive access into the world of U.S. Navy SEALs and their predecessors, highlighting their ethos to inspire service and personal excellence in all walks of life. The exhibitions seamlessly blend technology, personal narrative, and historical context to immerse visitors in powerful stories that put an all too human face on the elite special operations force.
The Navy SEAL Museum San Diego features a collection of interactive, immersive exhibits, state-of-the-art galleries, and engaging educational initiatives that tap veterans like Admiral William H. McRaven, Jocko Willink and others to tell their own unfiltered stories.
Outside
Standing vigil outside the museum’s southwest façade, this 9ft. granite pedestal adorned with a life-size bronze sculpture of a combat diver laying a limpet mine greet all visitors and embodies the courage and bravery characteristic of Navy SEALs and their predecessors.
Sculpted by esteemed sculptor, Lena Toritch, this statue’s pedestal features the BUD/S Class Plank Owners who donated to erect this testament to their community.
Quarterdeck (first floor)
“The SEAL Mindset” – Navy SEAL Foundation Theater
The visitor journey begins with “The SEAL Mindset”, a powerful chapter-based documentary in triptych format, projected on three walls of a massive surround theater. Visitors are viscerally immersed in the physical stamina, mental tenacity, and unyielding dedication of U.S. Navy SEALs and – through unflinching words of team members – learn about their mindset and motivations. Nearby, an interactive touchscreen “Memorial Wall” allows visitors to learn about Naval Special Warfare (NSW) warriors who have fallen in combat or in training.
Hal and Denise Kuykendall & Family Interactive Memorial Wall
This touchscreen experience is designed to honor fallen NSW operators from World War II to the present day who have sacrificed all for our country in training or combat. Visitors can search the Fallen by era or by name.
Second Deck (second floor)
Navy SEAL Xperience by HAVIK
As an add-on experience, visitors can immerse themselves in the Navy SEAL Xperience, a VR mission powered by HAVIK, which uses advanced VR technology to take the brave on a pulse-pounding, first-person journey into a high-stakes hostage rescue mission.
80 Years of Naval Special Warfare History
- Evolution of the SEALS: This large-scale animation takes visitors through the continual evolution of Naval Special Warfare over its 80-year history, from the first SEAL predecessors in World War II to today’s current military geopolitical climate.
- Featured Missions: Visitors can navigate eight featured missions through a self-guided touchscreen and dive deeper into the details and key moments of a specific Naval Special Warfare mission – from Normandy to Neptune Spear.
- Operation Neptune Spear: Visitors will get an up-close look at the Navy SEAL operation that captured Osama bin Laden. The 3D animation will guide visitors through the operation’s major steps from planning to execution to extraction, narrated by Admiral McRaven, who led the mission.
- Cause Higher Than Oneself: Here visitors will be challenged to identify a cause or mission that is bigger than themselves, as well as how they can support it and what kind of SEAL skills they can implement in their own lives.
SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Interactive
The SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) interactive exhibit blends hands-on gameplay and cinematic storytelling of underwater operations to provide visitors with an immersive journey into operating this covert submersible. Comprising four interactive stations situated directly beneath a suspended version of the famed submersible, visitors can take on the tense, high-stakes role of piloting a SEAL Team through a covert underwater mission – avoiding detection, managing decompression risk, and staying focused under pressure – mirroring the precision and responsibility carried by real, highly-selective SDV teams.
