Maritime museums Maritime museums The Australian National Maritime Museum is a national maritime museum operated as an independent authority of the Government of Australia, and is at Darling Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales. ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian National Maritime Museum"
The Baltimore Maritime Museum is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore in the United States. The museum's collection includes three historic museum ships and one lighthouse: ...more on Wikipedia about "Baltimore Maritime Museum"
Located in Fall River, Massachusetts, Battleship Cove is a nonprofit maritime museum and war memorial that traces its origins to the wartime crew of the World War II battleship USS Massachusetts. This dedicated veterans group was responsible for the donation of the decommissioned vessel from the Navy and its subsequent public display in Fall River, Massachusetts. Formally registered as the U.S.S. Massachusetts Memorial Committee, Inc., Battleship Cove was incorporated as a nonprofit educational organization and granted 501 c(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service in 1964. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battleship Cove"
Chatham Historic Dockyard is a museum on part of the site of the former naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, England. Chatham Dockyard covered 400 acres (1.6 km²) and was one of the Royal Navy's main facilities for several hundred years until it was closed in 1984. After closure the dockyard was divided into three sections. The easternmost basin was handed over to the Medway Ports Authority and is now a commercial port. Another slice was converted into a mixed commercial, residential and leisure development. 80 acres (324,000 m²), comprising the 18th century core of the site, was transferred to a charity called the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust and is now open as a visitor attraction. It claims to be the world’s most complete dockyard of the Age of Sail. The attraction has five main elements: ...more on Wikipedia about "Chatham Historic Dockyard"
Fort Schuyler is a preserved 19th century fortification in New York City that houses a museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fort Schuyler"
The Deutsche Technik Museum Berlin ("German Museum of Technology") was founded in 1982 and has a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis is on rail transport but it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology and has recently opened maritime and aviation exhibition halls. ...more on Wikipedia about "German Museum of Technology (Berlin)"
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is on the northeastern portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on Whitefish Point which forms the northern end of Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum"
The Hawai`i Maritime Center is the principal maritime museum in the State of Hawai`i. Located at Pier 7 of Honolulu Harbor east of Aloha Tower, the center is a campus of the Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. The Hawai`i Maritime Center was built on what once was the private boathouse of King David Kalakaua and is home to the only four-masted, full-rigged ship in the world called the Falls of Clyde. The Falls of Clyde was built in 1878 for the whaling industry and is a National Historic Landmark. Also docked at the Hawai`i Maritime Center is the voyaging canoe Hokule`a, a scientific research vessel of great importance to native Hawaiian culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hawaii Maritime Center"
The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence (香港海防博物館) is a museum in Hong Kong, located Lei Yue Mun near Shau Kei Wan on the Hong Kong Island. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence"
The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum is a museum in New York City located at Pier 86 on the West Side of Manhattan. The museum showcases the World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, the submarine USS Growler, the destroyer USS Edson, and a Concorde supersonic airplane. ...more on Wikipedia about "Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum"
The National Maritime Museum in Haifa, Israel was founded in 1953. It is based on the private collection of its founder and first director, Aryeh Ben- Eli. ...more on Wikipedia about "Israeli National Maritime Museum"
The Mariners' Museum is located in Newport News, Virginia. It is one of the largest and finest maritime museums in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mariners' Museum"
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk (formerly Maritime Center) is located in Norwalk, Connecticut. It features many species of fish, mainly from Long Island Sound. There are harbor seals, cultural exhibits, touch tanks, and temporary exhibits. A main attraction is the large shark tank. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk"
The Maritime Industry Museum is a museum specializing in the history of the United States maritime industry, including commercial shipping, the merchant marine, and the port of New York. It is located inside historic Fort Schuyler on the grounds of the State University of New York Maritime College in Throgs Neck, New York. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maritime Industry Museum"
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on seas and lakes. A naval museum focuses on navies and military use of the sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maritime museum"
The Maritime Museum of San Diego, established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States. Located in the San Diego Bay, the centerpiece of the museum's collection is the Star of India, an 1863 iron bark. The museum maintains the MacMullen Library and Research Archives aboard the 1898 ferryboat Berkeley. The museum also publishes the quarterly peer-reviewed journal Mains'l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maritime Museum of San Diego"
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a maritime museum located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Its collection includes over 40 vessels. The World War II Flower-class corvette Sackville of the Royal Canadian Navy is docked adjacent to the Museum during the summer season, as is Bluenose II when she is in port. Exhibits include a commemoration of the Halifax Explosion and of the sinking of the Titanic. The museum has the world's foremost collection of wooden artifacts from Titanic , including the only surviving deck chair. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maritime Museum of the Atlantic"
The Musée national de la Marine (National Navy Museum) is a maritime museum located in the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musée national de la Marine"
Mystic Seaport is a maritime museum situated along the banks of the Mystic River in Mystic, Connecticut. It is notable both for its collection of sailing ships and boats, and for the re-creation of an entire 19th century seaport, consisting of over 60 original buildings, most of them rare commercial structures, moved to the 37 acre (150,000 m²) site and meticulously restored. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mystic Seaport"
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom, and one of the most important in the world. It is based primarily in Greenwich, adjacent to Greenwich Park. The NMM houses a wide and varied collection of exhibits relating to Britain's extensive naval heritage; items range from ships' anchors to royal rowing barges, from naval uniforms to paintings of naval heroes and explorers. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Maritime Museum"
The New Jersey Naval Museum (NJNM) introduces state residents and visitors to New Jersey's Navy heritage and naval history in general. The star attraction here is the USS Ling (SS-297), a 312-foot long Balao-class submarine of World War II. The museum is located in Hackensack, and operated by the Submarine Memorial Association. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Jersey Naval Museum"
The Museum is located in the downtown of Bodø, a town in northern Norway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Salten Museum"
The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is located in San Francisco, California, USA. The park includes a fleet of historic vessels, a visitor center, a maritime museum, and a library/research facility. The park is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the San Francisco Maritime Museum -- a name that dates from 1951, but changed when the collections were acquired by the National Park Service, in 1978. Today's San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park was authorized in 1988; the maritime museum is among the park's many cultural resources. ...more on Wikipedia about "San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park"
The Steamship William G. Mather is a retired Great Lakes bulk freighter now restored as a maritime museum in Cleveland, Ohio, one of four in the Great Lakes region. She transported cargos such as ore, coal, stone, and grain to ports throughout the Great Lakes, and was nicknamed "The Ship That Built Cleveland" because Cleveland's steel mills were a frequent destination. ...more on Wikipedia about "Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum"
The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a nautical museum on the Vancouver waterfront, just west of False Creek. The main exhibit is the St. Roch, an historic Arctic exploration vessel. The museum also has extensive galleries of model ships, including one with historic model ships built entirely from cardboard or paper, There is a workshop where visitors can watch craftsmen build models. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vancouver Maritime Museum"
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