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.
Elva C
A buy boat built in 1922 by Gilbert S. White in Westland, VA. She was built for Capt. Lee Abbot of Foxwells, who named her after his daughter and used her for pound net fishing and freight until 1955. She had two more owners before being donated to the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.
Erie Canal Museum
Models, displays, and artifacts explaining the origin, construction, and use of the Erie Canal.
Erie Maritime Museum
Erie, PA, United States
The museum includes maritime subjects. The highlight of the museum is the restored/re-constructed 1813 brig Niagra.
Evelyn S.
South Haven, MI, United States
Evelyn S. was built in 1939 by Sturgeon Bay Boat Works William Sellman Fisheries of Manistique, MI. She fits the typical wooden gill net fish tug design so prevalent on the waters during this period.
Finger Lakes Boating Museum
Hammondsport, NY, United States
Includes a collection of about 200 boats, the majority of which were built in the Finger Lakes region.
Frammuseet
(The Fram Museum)
Oslo, Norway
The museum includes the ships Fram and Gjøa. The museum itself tells the story of Norwegian polar exploration.
Friends Good Will
South Haven, MI, United States
Friends Good Will is a replica of a top sail merchant sloop. She was captured by the Britishin the War of 1812 and later recaptured Commodore Oliver Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie.
Godspeed
Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Hatteras, NC, United States
The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is a maritime museum that focuses on the maritime history and shipwrecks of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Great Lakes Marine Collection
(at the Milwaukee Public Library)
Milwaukee, WI, United States
The Great Lakes Marine Collection includes books, photographs, articles, ship files, log books, vessel plans, wreck reports and more, documenting vessels that sailed the Great Lakes. See also: Wisconsin Marine Historical Society.
