The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum reopens with a four-day per week schedule. Enhanced health and safety measures include a mandatory face-covering policy, social distancing, a 25 percent capacity limit, timed ticketing, and increased cleaning and disinfecting procedures.

The vast majority of the 350,000 square foot museum will be available and accessible to visitors, including most exhibitions, the entire collection of aircraft on the flight and hangar decks, and the Space Shuttle Pavilion, which houses the space shuttle Enterprise. The Growler Submarine remains closed.

Intrepid’s pilot escalator has been restored and made available to the public for the first time in decades. The Navy installed escalators on aircraft carriers to help pilots quickly move from their ready rooms deep in the ship to the flight deck. Intrepid’s escalator, installed in the 1950s, is no longer operational; however, visitors can walk up the escalator from the hangar deck to the flight deck and learn about its mechanics and role during service.

Visitors can also peek into one of Intrepid's bomb elevators. Over the decades, the ship’s airplanes carried a changing array of bombs, torpedoes, rockets, and missiles, which could weigh as much as 2,000 pounds. These heavy-duty elevators transported weapons from their armored protected spaces to other parts of the ship where they were assembled, armed, and loaded onto airplanes.