Top 5: How Patriots Point Ranks

Patriots Point is within months of unveiling a revitalization plan that the struggling maritime museum’s leaders hope will boost attendance as much as 30 percent over the next few years.  Looking at five other aircraft carrier museums, here’s how Patriots Point's yearly visitation stacks up for 2010:

1. USS Intrepid, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York - 915,000 

2. USS Midway, USS Midway Museum, San Diego - 875,000

3. USS Yorktown, Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, Mount Pleasant – 266,000

4. USS Lexington, USS Lexington Museum on the Bay, Corpus Christi, Texas - 251,219

5. USS Hornet, USS Hornet Museum, San Francisco – 60,000

Top 5 is a weekly look at how Mount Pleasant ranks compared to other cities across the country.