USS Lexington- Adventure Aboard LEX
The best adventures happen when you aren’t staring at a screen. Step into history aboard the USS Lexington Museum. Here you can learn all about LEX and her 40 years in service as a real WWII aircraft carrier, test your tactical skills and knowledge, and see how naval teams worked, lived and fought together. Exciting for all ages, there’s something for everyone right here on the water in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Camp Lex
USS Lexington is calling all campers from schools, scouts and non-profit youth groups to gear up for an overnight adventure. Our one or two-night programs allow participants to bunk right aboard the ship and explore the same passageways as the heroes who once lived here. Campers leave with a special badge—and memories that will last a lifetime. (Ages 5+)
The Camp LEX one night stay is an ideal program for young scouts, homeschoolers, and adventure seekers aged 7 years or older. The overnight itinerary serves as a lesson plan and includes all five tour routes of the ship, stories of historical events from her past, a scavenger hunt, a film in the 3D MEGA Theater, LEX ghost stories, two trips through the chow line, bunking in original crew quarters, an unforgettable patriotic flag ceremony, and so much more!
Camp LEX also offers two-night overnight programs and that includes a bonus gift for each group and some additional fun—one free flight simulator ride for each member of your group!
We offer several badge workshops that can be arranged for your second day aboard, available at an additional charge. We can also help your troop or group arrange to spend the day working on a volunteer service project, whether on the ship swabbing the deck or washing aircraft, cleaning up a park on North Beach, or working with the rangers at Padre Island National Seashore, which is about 30 minutes away.
Attractions Include:
Escape Rooms
Do you have the skills and nerves to complete high-intensity challenges? Find out with Lockdown on USS Lexington, featuring our pulse-pounding escape rooms. Whether you set out to Beat the Blast, Face Your Fears, or signal SOS our escape rooms are a brain-teasing adventure for those who dare. (Ages 12+)
USS Lexington Flight Simulator
Our 15-seat simulator lets you step into the pilot’s seat of an F/18 tactical aircraft. All systems go as you launch off the carrier. Think fast to hit your targets. Keep a steady hand for a smooth and safe landing. You’ll have to lean on your reflexes and grit to steer you through it all.
3D Mega Theater
The Joe Jessel 3D MEGA Theater takes audiences on amazing journeys, immersing you in three-story-tall screens and thundering digital sound. With stadium seating for 193 people, you’ll get as close as you can to the real thing, with sight, sound and an educational look in to the real action of aviation, flight and history.
The USS Lexington newly installed system is the brightest cinema projector on the planet! This flagship laser projector provides twice the brightness of any xenon projector. The brightness levels create an unparalleled 3D experience –showing movies just the way they were imagined by the moviemaker.
Admission to the MEGA Theater is free with your paid admission to the Ship! Theater is wheelchair accessible and closed captioned with CaptiView for visitors with hearing impairment.
Flight Deck
You have to experience our vast flight deck to believe it. Our two-acre expanse is home to 20 aircraft from the National Museum of Naval Aviation. Get an up-close look at the USS Lexington aircraft collection, anti-aircraft guns, landing gear and more as you get an in-person lesson on naval history.
Pearl Harbor: Course of Valor
This state-of-the-art multi-media exhibit, on Tour Route 2 in the ship’s foc’sle, features a film montage that retells the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor, enveloping you in this historic and devastating event. A graphic map of Pearl Harbor at a 1/2400 scale sets the scene with models of the ships docked in position, just as they were on the day of that fateful attack.
The events unfold in front of your eyes through realistic battle animations, an 8,000-watt sound system, and transducers that shake the walkway with each rumbling explosion. To the side, you will see the Japanese plan of attack as a 1941 model radio fills the air with FDR’s famous address to Congress, “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy.”
