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Overview

The Battlestar Galactica Museum is a military history museum of the First Cylon War, constructed in the starboard flight pod of the retired battlestar Galactica. The museum serves as an educational center and as a memorial to those who served during the War.

The main part of the museum is featured on the former landing deck, which has been pressurized with massive canopies installed over the pod's entryways. The hangar deck and launch tubes below have been converted into a gift shop and recreational area. A ceremonial flyby of Galactica's last remaining active Viper squadron and the decommissioning ceremony is held here just prior to the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies.

The main exhibits feature many wartime artifacts, including a Mark I Viper, a scale model of an older class battlestar, a landram, a transport shuttle, a squadron of forty Mark II Vipers, a Cylon Raider, a model of a Cylon basestar, and the deactivated remains of a Cylon Centurion.

After the Fall

During the Cylon attack on the Colonies, the Galactica deck crew hurriedly restores some of the exhibits to working condition upon receiving the news. The first priority is the Viper Mark II squadron, which becomes the battlestar's only defense after dumping the last of its munitions upon decommissioning and losing its last active Viper squadron in battle (TRS: Miniseries). After fleeing the Colonies, many of the museum pieces find full-time use throughout the fleet of surviving ships. The Vipers continue to defend the fleet, and the landram is used for mining operations aboard Majahual and for flight deck operations aboard Galactica (TRS: "Scar", "Escape Velocity"). However, the museum itself is never converted back to use as an operational flight pod, despite Galactica's increased load of Vipers inherited from the battlestar Pegasus. On one occasion it temporarily serves as a quarantine zone when a number of Galactica's marines and pilots come into contact with Cylons carrying Lymphocytic encephalitis (TRS: "A Measure of Salvation").

What remains of the museum is heavily damaged and ultimately destroyed. The first hit comes when an out of control Heavy Raider crashes into the pod, depressurizing it. A handful of Centurions survive the crash and board Galactica, marching over museum pieces as they force their way into the ship and attack the crew (TRS: "Scattered"). The final blow to the museum and the flight pod containing it comes after a handful of Raptors utilize their FTL drives inside the pod, as they jump to the Cylon Colony. The distortions caused by the jumping ships blow a hole in the forward section of the pod, obliterating it. The surviving museum artifacts, if any, are flown into a nearby star with the rest of the fleet following the battle (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").

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 [[Image:Galactica Museum.png|thumb|right|400px|Panoramic shot of the Battlestar ''Galactica'' Museum.]]
-The '''Battlestar ''Galactica'' Museum''' is a military history museum featuring a collection of museum ships from the [[First Cylon War]], constructed in the starboard flight pod of the now retired battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. The museum serves as an educational center and as a memorial to those who served during the War.
+The '''Battlestar ''Galactica'' Museum''' is a military history museum of the [[First Cylon War]], constructed in the starboard flight pod of the retired [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. The museum serves as an educational center and as a memorial to those who served during the War.
-The main part of the museum is featured on the former landing deck, which as now been pressurized with massive canopies installed over the pod's entryways. The hangar deck and launch tubes below has been converted into a gift shop, and recreational area. A ceremonial flyby of ''Galactica's'' last remaining active Viper squadron and the decommissioning ceremony was held here just prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies]].
+The main part of the museum is featured on the former landing deck, which has been pressurized with massive canopies installed over the pod's entryways. The hangar deck and launch tubes below have been converted into a gift shop and recreational area. A ceremonial flyby of ''Galactica's'' last remaining active Viper squadron and the decommissioning ceremony is held here just prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies]].
-The main exhibits featured many First War artifacts including a Mk I Viper, an older class battlestar, a [[Landram (TRS)|Landram]], a [[Atmospheric_shuttle#.22Heavy.22_Shuttle|transport shuttle]], a squadron (40) of  [[Viper Mark II|Mk II Vipers]], a [[Cylon_Raider_(RDM)#Cylon_War-era_Raider|Cylon Raider]], a model of a [[Basestar_(RDM)#First_Variant|Cylon Basestar]], and a model of a [[Cylon_Centurion_Model_0005|Cylon Centurion]].
+The main exhibits feature many wartime artifacts, including a Mark I Viper, a scale model of an older class battlestar, a [[Landram (TRS)|landram]], a [[Atmospheric_shuttle#.22Heavy.22_Shuttle|transport shuttle]], a squadron of forty [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Vipers]], a [[Cylon_Raider_(RDM)#Cylon_War-era_Raider|Cylon Raider]], a model of a [[Basestar_(RDM)#First_Variant|Cylon basestar]], and the deactivated remains of a [[Cylon_Centurion_Model_0005|Cylon Centurion]].
 ===After the Fall===
-[[Image:Galactica Museum, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|right|A model of a [[Cylon War]]-era Cylon [[:en:Basestar (RDM)#Cylon War-era basestar|basestar]] and [[:en:Cylon Centurion Model 0005|centurion]] on display in the defunct museum.]]
+[[Image:Galactica Museum, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|right|Model of a [[Cylon War]]-era [[:en:Basestar (RDM)#Cylon War-era basestar|basestar]] and the shell of a [[:en:Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] on display in the defunct museum.]]
-During the attacks on the Colonies, the ''Galactica'' deck crew hurriedly restored some of the exhibits to working condition upon receiving the news. First priority was the Viper Mark II squadron, which was needed to defend the [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]], which had dumped the last of their munitions as part of the decommissioning ceremonies, and which had to fill in the gap after the ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> last Viper squadron was destroyed ([[Miniseries]]). After fleeing the Colonies, many of the pieces found full time use throughout the Fleet. The Vipers were kept for full time use in defending the fleet, and the landram was used for mining operations aboard ''[[Majahual]]'', and flight deck operations aboard ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Scar]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]").
+During the Cylon attack on the Colonies, the ''Galactica'' deck crew hurriedly restores some of the exhibits to working condition upon receiving the news. The first priority is the Viper Mark II squadron, which becomes the battlestar's only defense after dumping the last of its munitions upon decommissioning and losing its last active Viper squadron in battle ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]). After fleeing the Colonies, many of the museum pieces find full-time use throughout the [[The Fleet (RDM)|fleet of surviving ships]]. The Vipers continue to defend the fleet, and the landram is used for mining operations aboard ''[[Majahual]]'' and for flight deck operations aboard ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Scar]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]"). However, the museum itself is never converted back to use as an operational flight pod, despite ''Galactica'''s increased load of Vipers inherited from the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. On one occasion it temporarily serves as a quarantine zone when a number of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> marines and pilots come into contact with Cylons carrying [[Lymphocytic encephalitis|Lymphocytic encephalitis]] ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]").
-What remained of the museum was heavily damaged, and ultimately destroyed as time wore on. The first hit came when an out of control [[Heavy Raider]] crashed into the pod, depressurizing it. Here, a handful of newer Centurions boarded the ship, marching over museum pieces as they forced their way into the ship and attacked the crew, resulting in many casualties ([[TRS]]: [[Scattered]]). The starboard flight pod was also used as a quarantine zone for anyone needing isolation, as was the case when many of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> marines and pilots came into contact with Cylons carrying [[Lymphocytic encephalitis|Lymphocytic encephalitis]] ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]"). The final blow to the museum (and the flight pod that hosted it) came after a handful of Raptors utilized their [[FTL]] drives inside the pod, as they jumped to the Cylon [[The Colony|Colony]]. The distortions caused by the jumping ships blew a hole in the forward section of the pod, obliterating it. The surviving museum artifacts, if any, were later flown into a nearby star with the rest of the fleet following the battle ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]"). Despite utilizing the pod for limited purposes, and receiving Vipers from the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', the starboard flight pod was never converted back for full time use.
+What remains of the museum is heavily damaged and ultimately destroyed. The first hit comes when an out of control [[Heavy Raider]] crashes into the pod, depressurizing it. A handful of [[Centurions]] survive the crash and board ''Galactica'', marching over museum pieces as they force their way into the ship and attack the crew ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]"). The final blow to the museum and the flight pod containing it comes after a handful of Raptors utilize their [[FTL]] drives inside the pod, as they jump to the Cylon [[The Colony|Colony]]. The distortions caused by the jumping ships blow a hole in the forward section of the pod, obliterating it. The surviving museum artifacts, if any, are flown into a nearby star with the rest of the fleet following the battle ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").
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