National Maritime Museums
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There are various National Maritime Museum
s worldwide:
See also :Category:Maritime museums and List of members of the International Congress of Maritime Museums
Maritime museum
A maritime museum is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water...
s worldwide:
- National Maritime MuseumNational Maritime MuseumThe National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings forming part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, it also incorporates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,...
, the original museum in, Greenwich, England - National Maritime Museum CornwallNational Maritime Museum CornwallThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall is located in a harbourside building at Falmouth in Cornwall. The building was designed by architect M. J...
, U.K. - Australian National Maritime MuseumAustralian National Maritime MuseumThe Australian National Maritime Museum is a federally-operated maritime museum located in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After consideration of the idea to establish a maritime museum, the Federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into...
- Israeli National Maritime MuseumIsraeli National Maritime MuseumThe 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....
- National Maritime Museum, New ZealandNational Maritime Museum, New ZealandThe Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum is New Zealand's premier maritime museum. It is located on Hobson Wharf Auckland, adjacent to Viaduct Harbour...
- National Maritime Museum of IrelandNational Maritime Museum of IrelandThe National Maritime Museum of Ireland opened in 1978 in the former Mariners' Church in Haigh Terrace, near the centre of Dún Laoghaire town, southeast of Dublin city.The church was built in 1837 for seafarers and remained open until 1971...
- Deutsches SchiffahrtsmuseumDeutsches SchiffahrtsmuseumThe Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum is a museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-president Walter Scheel, though scientific work already had started in 1971...
(German Maritime Museum) in Bremerhaven, Germany - National Maritime Museum in GalleNational Maritime Museum (Galle)The National Maritime Museum in Galle, Sri Lanka is located within the Galle fort. On March 2010, it was reopened at the Dutch warehouse of the Galle fort as the National Maritime Archaeology Museum....
, Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
See also :Category:Maritime museums and List of members of the International Congress of Maritime Museums