- published: 31 Aug 2012
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A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use of the sea.
The great prize of a maritime museum is a historic ship (or a replica) made accessible as a museum ship, but as these are large and require a considerable budget to maintain, many museums preserve smaller or more fragile ships or partial ships within the museum buildings. Most museums exhibit interesting pieces of ships (such as a figurehead or cannon), ship models, and miscellaneous small items associated with ships and shipping, like cutlery, uniforms, and so forth.
Ship modellers often have a close association with maritime museums; not only does the museum have items that help the modeller achieve better accuracy, but the museum provides a display space for models larger than will comfortably fit in a modeller's home; and of course the museum is happy to take a ship model as a donation. Museums will also commission models.
"National Maritime Museum", Our Maritime History. Greenwich, London. HD
San Diego Maritime Museum
Australian national maritime museum
The National Maritime Museum, a tour, Greenwich (London)
National Maritime Museum- Amsterdam Sails
Maritime Museum in Karachi, Pakistan
Museet for Søfart - Maritime Museum of Denmark - Søfartsmuseum
Maritime Museum of Barcelona
Have a look around the New Zealand Maritime Museum
Maritime Experiential Museum, Singapore