Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum
A robust Drupal 11 website built for Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, home of the USS Yorktown, USS Laffey, and Cold War Memorial. The site presents visitor information, historic vessels, aircraft collections, exhibitions, events, and educational resources. It combines custom content architecture with museum specific integrations to deliver a flexible and visually engaging digital experience.
Technologies Used
- Drupal 11
- PHP
- SCSS
- JavaScript
- Pantheon
- Apache Solr
- Lando
- Docker
Project Details
Client Background
Patriots Point is a major naval history museum located on Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The museum is built around several iconic vessels and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. The website needed to support high volumes of traffic, present detailed museum content, and offer strong tools for planning visits, exploring exhibits, and purchasing tickets.
Project Context
This project was developed by the Interactive Knowledge team as a custom Drupal build tailored to the museum’s needs. It supports structured content types for vessels, aircraft, exhibitions, online experiences, events, and collections. The site integrates with external platforms for ticketing, collections management, newsletters, and 3D interactives. The theme showcases the naval identity of the museum with a bold design and responsive media.
My Role and Contributions
I contributed across the front end and back end of the Patriots Point project, including:
- SCSS and theme updates in the custom ik_client theme
- Template refinements for museum content like vessels, exhibitions, and events
- Support for custom modules such as patriots_core and patriots_hours