Museums Listed Alphabetically

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

Discovery

Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.

Dolphin, USS (AGSS-555)

A United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

Dorothy Lee

1934 Hoopers Island dovetail crab boat. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

East End Seaport Museum

Local museum presenting local boatbuilding and lighthouse history. Large collection of Fresnel lenses.

East Hampton Town Marine Museum

The Marine Museum tells the unique story of Long Island’s East End community and its relationship with the sea through artifacts, photographs, models, and displays.

Edmeé S.

Chesapeake Bay’s racing log canoe from the 1930s. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

Edna E. Lockwood

A National Historic Landmark, and the oldest sailing log-bottom bugeye, built in 1889. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.