Museums Listed Alphabetically – Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

This is an alphabetical listing of maritime museums and museum ships located around the world. Libraries with significant maritime holdings are also included. You can use the optional fields to filter by type and country, or use the geoloacted list or map. Please contact us if you would like a museum to be added to this list.

Bergens Sjøfartsmuseum

(Bergen Maritime Museum)

Bergen, Norway

Bergen Maritime Museum presents Norwegian seafaring through the ages.

Berkely

A former Southern Pacific Railroad ferry that operated between the Oakland Pier and the San Francisco Ferry Building. Built in 1898 by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. Part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

Bernida

South Haven, MI, United States

Bernida is a Universal Rule R Class Sloop designed by Geo. Owen and built by Lawley, giants in the golden years of American yachting. Bernida was launched in 1921 and made her way to the Great Lakes in 1925.

Besser Museum

Alpena, MI, United States

Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park

Buffalo, NY, United States

Guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock, destroyer USS The Sullivans, WWII submarine USS Croaker (SSK-246), fast patrol boat PTF-17, and a museum with models and artifacts.

Buffalo Harbor Museum

(Lower Lakes Marine Historical Society)

Buffalo, NY, United States

Models, artifacts, and displays provide an overview of the evolution of the Buffalo waterfront and the vessels that sailed the Great Lakes.

Buffel (HNLMS)

Hellevoetsluis

HNLMS Buffel is a 19th-century ironclad ram ship, the first ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy without sails.

Bufflehead

Replica Chesapeake Bay’s racing log canoe built in 2014 from 1893 plans. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

Californian

Californian was built in San Diego, launched in 1984, as a replica of the United States Revenue Cutter ‘Lawrence’, which operated off the coast of California in the 1850s. Part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego

Calvert Marine Museum

Solomons, MD, United States

In addition to maritime history exhibits, the museum collection includes the bugeye Wm. B. Tennison (converted to power c. 1908), the skipjack Dee of St. Mary’s, and a number of smaller craft.