About National Maritime Museum
Based within Greenwich Park, the impressive building houses the national collection of maritime history.
Exhibits range from full size barges to models of mighty sailing ships, along with the history of the marine trade in the UK.
Some exhibitions are charged for, but you can also take in the other museums in the area which are associated with each other.
Address
National Maritime Museum,
Romney Road,
London,
SE10 9NF
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A hitherto unknown painting by Thomas Gainsborough has been discovered in Greenwich, after spending decades in storage after it was donated to the National Maritime Museum in 1960.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first publication of William Shakespeare’s plays, and two surviving copies of the first folio are going on display in London.
A former RAF base in southeast London that’s now a museum warehouse is starting to open up regularly for behind the scenes tours.
The world as a jester, the unseen effects of comets, non-existent islands, the secrets of the stars, make up a richly decorated compendium of maps from the National Maritime Museum.
Removed from their ancestral home, a complete set of twenty-four classic Canaletto paintings of Venice that have never been seen away from their home have come to London for this exceptionally rare display.
What is thought to be Canaletto’s largest single commission, of 24 Venetian paintings, will be coming to London for the first time this Spring.
Later this month, Britain’s newest polar research ship the RRS Sir David Attenborough will be visiting London for a few days.
Kings, Queens, mistresses and loverboys – some 500 years of monarchy is on display as part art and part history lesson at the National Maritime Museum.
An exhibition has opened of photography of marine life, but it’s not the expected photos of fishes and corals and nature — but of humanity at work at sea. Raw industry and machines, and the humans who work them.
On this anniversary year of the moon landings, one of the many exhibitions that are opening is in London, and looks not just at the moon landing, but at the moon entire.
The National Maritime Museum is about to get bigger. Much bigger. A development project that’s nearly finished is seeing the museum gain four new galleries, adding 1,000m2 of space in the Museum’s East Wing, previously closed to visitors, into public use.
Sitting in a bit of a corner in the Maritime Museum can be found something that ideally shouldn’t be there.
I was in Greenwich for an event taking place later that afternoon, so why not pop into the newish extension to the Maritime Museum for a bit of lunch while I waited.
Today, the Baron Greenwich and his wife will visit his namesake town and let her announce the opening of the restored Cutty Sark sailing ship after its lengthy, expensive, and very controversial refurbishment. Yesterday, practically every journalist and blogger in…
With the Royal Pageant taking place in a couple of months, it is opportune to learn a bit about the history of such grand events which were often the closest the great unwashed would get to see their Regal masters…
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Forgotten Gainsborough painting discovered in Greenwich after decades in storage; Restoration needed to put it on display
