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unusual facts about Maritime Museum


Maritime museum

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.


Cape Horner

Port Victoria Maritime Museum: A Maritime Museum commemorating the journeys of the Cape Horners made to Port Victoria in South Australia


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Aegean Maritime Museum

The garden of the Aegean Maritime Museum, aside from displaying the lighthouse, has a number of ancient sailors' marble gravestones collected from the islands of Mykonos and Delos.

American River, South Australia

In 2007, a local group, backed by Tourism Kangaroo Island and many local organisations, proposed that the historic ketch Falie be moved from Port Adelaide to the wharf at American River as an interpretive maritime museum.

Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum

The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum is the chartered organization for the Quapaw Area Council Sea Scout ship number 394.

Bayfield-class attack transport

Mawdsley, Dean L. (2002): Steel Ships and Iron Pipe: Western Pipe and Steel Company of California, the Company, the Yard, the Ships, Glencannon Press (for Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library), ISBN 1-889901-28-8.

Belém, Lisbon

Construction was funded by a tax on eastern spices, and over time came to represent Portuguese historical discoveries, becoming over time a national monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site, housing (in addition to the religious art and furniture from its past) artefacts and exhibitions like the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (National Archaeological Museum) and the Museu da Marinha (Maritime Museum) within its walls.

David Cordingly

David Cordingly organised several exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, including Captain James Cook, Navigator and The Mutiny on the Bounty.

Edith Haisman

On 15 April 1995, Edith was present with fellow Titanic survivor, Eva Hart, aged 90, at the opening of a memorial garden at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London where a granite monument commemorating the 83rd anniversary of Titanic's sinking was erected.

Frank Carr

Frank George Griffith Carr, director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England

German submarine U-778

In 2007, Derry City Council announced plans to raise the boat to be the main exhibit of a new maritime museum.

Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg

The Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg (International Maritime Museum) is a private museum in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany.

James Caird

Sir James Caird, 1st Baronet (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Juliett-class submarine

The Juliett unit K-77 while at a the maritime museum in Providence, Rhode Island, was slightly stage modified and used to act as the Hotel I SSBN K-19 in the National Geographic movie "K-19 Widowmaker" starring Harrison Ford.

Maritime Museum of Tasmania

The new expanded and modern renovated Carnegie building was opened as the Maritime Museum of Tasmania by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 2000.

Mumbai Harbour

The Gateway of India with its jetty for Elephanta is the most important tourist destination, followed by the INS Vikrant maritime Museum.

MV Cape Don

In 1987, she transported the tower of the former lighthouse at the Neptune Islands to Port Adelaide for inclusion in the collection of the South Australian Maritime Museum.

Objet d'art

Thus the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London describes its collection as follows: "The National Maritime Museum's collection of objet d’art comprises over 800 objects. These are mostly small decorative art items that fall outside the scope of the Museum’s ceramic, plate, textiles and glass collections."

Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle

PACV serial number 004 is the only surviving British Hovercraft Corporation-built US Navy PACV, and is currently preserved at the Bellingham International Maritime Museum.

San Francisco Maritime National Park Association

In 1978 the Maritime Museum was transferred to the National Park Service, and it now forms the core of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet

Another portrait of Sir Chaloner Ogle of Worthy by a follower of Joshua Reynolds was sold at Christie's auction house in 2009, which bears the same likeness to the painting in the National Maritime Museum.

TSS T/T Calshot

In 1986, Calshot was bought back by her port of registry (more specifically the Southampton City Council), with the intention of making her the centrepiece of a maritime museum in Ocean Village.

Tuima-class missile boat

After decommissioning, the vessels were moored at Loviisa, and it was planned that one was to be transferred to the new Maritime Museum in Kotka.

Turunmaa-class gunboat

FNS Karjala has been berthed since 2002 at the maritime museum Forum Marinum in Turku as a museum ship next to Suomen Joutsen.