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
Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild
The guild maintains two ships, the barkentine Gazela and the 1902 tug Jupiter. The Gazela can be rented for dockside events. The Jupiter takes part in festivals and boat parades. It may be worth contacting them to see if a visit can be arranged.
Pommern
Pommern, formerly Mneme, is an iron-hulled, four-masted barque built in 1903 in Glasgow, Scotland at the J. Reid & Co shipyard. Separate or joint ticket entry with Ålands Sjöfartsmuseum.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum
Explores the 250+ year history of America’s oldest and largest naval shipyard
Pride of Baltimore II
A replica Baltimore clipper that serves as an ambassador to the city of Baltimore. Check the website for the sailing schedule. Locations vary.
Providence Public Library
The collection consists of 320 printed books, 550 blueprints and technical drawings, several prints and photographs and most notably, the 11 ship models of Atlantic Coast fishing vessels largely made by Mr. Brownell. The collection is strong in books on ship model building and naval architecture, and there are also a number of scarce, early books on rigging and artillery.
Puget Sound Navy Museum
The Puget Sound Navy Museum collects, preserves, and interprets the naval heritage of the Pacific Northwest from 1840 to the present.
Queen Mary
Take a tour or stay overnight this ship which now operates as a hotel and venue for meetings and weddings
Red Star Line Museum
Two million passengers traveled from Antwerp to North America on board Red Star Line ships. The museum focuses on their stories, that of the Red Star Line that transported them. and that of Antwerp.
Reedville Fishermen’s Museum
A local museum focused on the Chesapeake Bay. In addition to the indoor exhibits, the museum operates the buy boat Elva C, the skipjack Claud W. Somers, and a replica barge from 1608. There is a boat shop for new constructions and restorations.
Richardson Maritime Museum
Named after a local boat builder, the museum is dedicated to the craftsmen and culture of the traditional Eastern Shore wooden boat building industry. There is a unique collection of boat models: skipjacks, bugeyes, pungys, log canoes, rams & other vessels used over the years.
Roanoke Island Maritime Museum
The Roanoke Island Maritime Museum is a working boat shop offering a look at local and regional maritime heritage through displayed watercraft, exhibits, restoration projects, and traditional skills workshops. Featured at the Museum is the North Carolina Shad boat Ella View, built in 1883.
Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum
Dedicated to the town’s past as a prosperous whaling port. It houses the largest collection of whaling equipment in the state of New York.
San Salvadore
San Salvador was the flagship of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese). She was a 100-foot, 200 ton, galleon. The replica, part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego, was completed in 2015.
Ships of the Sea Museum
hips of the Sea Museum exhibits ship models, paintings and maritime antiques, principally from the great era of Atlantic trade during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Skenesborough Museum
The Skenesborough Museum concentrates on the history of the area, along with a focus the U.S. Navy and forms of transportation. It is located in a former canal terminal.
