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
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
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
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.
Growler, USS (SSG-577)
An early attempt by the U.S. Navy to field a cruise missile submarine. Part of the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum.
H. L. Hunley, CSS
The night of 17 February 1864, the H. L. Hunley attacked and sank the USS Housatonic, the first submarine ever to sink an enemy ship. But she disappeared on her return. Lost at sea for over a century, the Hunley was located in 1995.
H. Lee White Maritime Museum
Exhibits a collection of thousands of artifacts, images, archival records, and original artworks telling over 400 years of regional maritime history. Current home of the tugboat Major Elisha K. Henson (LT-5), one of the few remaining US Army vessels from the Normandy landings.
Halve Maen
Halve Maen (Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company ship that sailed into what is now New York in 1609. She was attempting to find a western passage to China.