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
National Museum of the American Sailor
National Museum of the American Sailor’s mission is to select, collect, preserve, and interpret the history of the United States Navy with particular emphasis on the Navy’s enlisted sailor.
National Museum of the U.S. Navy
The flagship museum of the United States Navy, located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
National Naval Aviation Museum
The National Naval Aviation Museum is the world’s largest Naval Aviation museum, with more than 150 beautifully restored aircraft representing Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
Niagra
Relief flagship for Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Part of the Erie Maritime Museum.
Noble Maritime Collection
Model collection and restored houseboat studio of John Noble, maritime artist featured in the December 1954 issue of National Geographic.
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.
Patriots Point
aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, destroyer USS Laffey, submarine USS Clamagore, 3-acre Vietnam Experience, Medal of Honor Museum, 28 historic aircraft.
PCF-816
Swift Boat, formerly C24/P24 of the Armed Forces of Malta. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
Philadelphia II
The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s replica of the gunboat Philadelphia (referred to in contemporary documents as a gundalow or gondola) of the Continental Navy. Manned by Continental Army soldiers, she was part of a fleet under the command of General Benedict Arnold that fought the 11 October 1776 Battle of Valcour Island against a larger [glossary_exclude]Royal[/glossary_exclude] Navy fleet on Lake Champlain. Although many of the American boats in the battle were damaged, Philadelphia was one of the few that actually sank that day. On the days following the main battle, most of the other boats in the American fleet were sunk, burned, or captured. She is one of a few such vessels used during the American Revolutionary War to be raised.