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 these 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.
244 museums found
Norges Fiskerimuseum
Interactive displays on the history of the local fishing industry, located in old fish warehouses.
Norsk Maritimt Museum
The exhibits on coast culture and maritime history cover a number of subjects including ship building, boat models, fishing, marine archaeology, and shipping.
North Carolina (USS)
USS North Carolina (BB-55) is the lead ship of the North Carolina class of fast battleships, the first vessel of the type built for the United States Navy.
North Carolina Maritime Museum at Beaufort
The North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort reflects coastal life and interprets lighthouses and lifesaving stations, the seafood industry, motorboats, and more. The Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center teaches boatbuilding for all ages.
North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport
Maritime museum focusing on history of local waterways plus exhibits on piracy, shipwrecks & storms.
Ocean City Historical Museum
The four-masted Sindia, sailing from Kobe, Japan, on its way to New York City, ran aground near Ocean City in 1901. A museum exhibit displays scale models, photographs, and wonderful artifacts taken from the ship.
Old Point
1909 log-built crab dredger. Old Point also hauled freight fish in the summer and carried oysters during the fall. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
Olympia, USS (C-6)
1892 cruiser – the oldest steel warship afloat in the world. Part of the Independence Seaport Museum.
