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.
Intrepid, USS (CV-11)
Essex-class aircraft carrier. Part of the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum.
Jamestown Settlement
Williamsburg, VA, United States
The Settlement exhibits include replicas of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607: Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery.
John DuBois Maritime Museum
Greenwich, NJ, United States
A large and unique collection of builders’ models of local craft show the plans used to build a new ship from the model itself. Closed until further notice for maintenance.
John Smith Shallop Replica
Replica of a shallop, like that used by Captain John Smith to make the first detailed European exploration of the Chesapeake Bay. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
John Smith’s Barge
Replica of a shallop, like that used by Captain John Smith to make the first detailed European exploration of the Chesapeake Bay. Part of the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.
John W. Brown (SS)
Baltimore, MD, United States
One of two surviving fully operational Liberty ships preserved in the United States
Jylland
Ebeltoft, Denmark
A screw-propelled steam frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, it saw action at the Battle of Heligoland (1864).
Katherine V.
Alpena, MI, United States
Katherin V. is a restored Great Lakes fishing tug that is the centerpiece of the Besser Museum‘s Great Lakes Fisheries Heritage exhibit.
Krigsmuseet
(Danish War Museum)
København K, Denmark
The museum contains a large selection of items from the former ‘Orlogsmuseet’ (Naval Museum). The history of the Danish Navy from the start of the 16th century to the present day is told through ship models and other miniatures, as well as large tableaus of iconic naval battles from Denmark’s history.
Kure Maritime Museum
Kure, Hiroshima, Japan
The main attraction is a 1:10 scale model of the battleship Yamato, measuring 26.3m (86’3″) in impressive detail.
Kursura, INS (S20)
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
INS Kursura (S20) was a Kalvari-class diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy.