National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum

Overview

The National Maritime Museum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in London, reflecting the historic face of the city of London and the United Kingdom. It’s the biggest museum of its kind in the whole world. Located in Greenwich, It’s a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport like all the other national museums funded by the public sector in the United Kingdom.

A tour in the museum

The National Maritime Museum is only a fifteen-minute walk from Greenwich train station. Opened in 1937 by King George VI, the museum received generous donations from Sir James Caird. The museum displays many old vehicles and large engines, some of which were taken after WWII and others from the British navy. The museum has a collection of over two million exhibitions related to the history of the British and the Dutch navy during the 17^th century. The institution also plays host to cartography, manuscripts, official public records, ship models and plans, scientific and navigational instruments, and instruments for time-keeping and astronomy. The museum houses the biggest reference library for the history of maritime in the whole world. It contains more than 100.000 books, 20000 pamphlets and 20000 journal about naval ships in addition to 8 thousand rare books dating from 1474 until 1850.

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