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
Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum
Museum located in a historic lighthouse, with an emphasis on local maritime history.
South Street Seaport Museum
Museum collections include models, paintings, photographs and other objects related to trade from the Seaport. The ships are: 1930 wooden tugboat W.O. Decker; 1885 schooner Pioneer, 1893 schooner Lettie G. Howard, lightship Ambrose, and full-rigged ship Wavertree
Southern Naval Command Maritime Museum
The collection includes naval weapons, a sea king helicopter and replicas of various ships.
St. Marys Submarine Museum
The museum has a wide variety of pictures, paintings, models, artifacts, and rare historical documents. More than 99% of all WW II submarine combat war patrol reports are housed here, as well as files on nearly every submarine ever in the service of the United States.
Star of India
Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship, Euterpe. Part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
Submarine Force Museum
The museum has 33,000 artifacts, including the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world. Other exhibits include a WW II midget submarine, working periscopes, a submarine control room, models of submarines, and the Explorer, an early research submarine.
SUNY Maritime College -Maritime Museum
Ship models, historic artifacts, nautical photographs and prints, and a host of corporate banners identifying exhibits of the respective steamship companies they represent.
Surprise, HMS
A 1970 replica of the 1757, 20-gun, 6th-post ship HMS Rose. Later converted to a period-accurate 28-gun ship to play the part of the fictional HMS Surpsise in the movie Master and Commander. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
Susan Constant
Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.
Taney, USCGC (WHEC-37)
United States Coast Guard Treasury-class high endurance cutter. Part of Historic Ships in Baltimore.
The Sullivans, USS (DD-537)
Fletcher-class destroyer. Part of Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park.
Trondhjems Sjøfartsmuseum
The exhibits include models of sailing ships, figureheads, marine instruments and pictures of local sailing ships. The museum has a comprehensive archive on ships and captains.
U.S. Coast Guard Museum
The museum’s artifacts reflect the history of the U.S. Coast Guard and include ship models, carved figureheads, cannons, uniforms, medals, weapons, memorabilia and paintings.
United States Naval Academy Museum
The collection includes thousands of objects such as flags, uniforms, weapons, medals, books, instruments and photographs as well as art. Major collections are The Rogers Ship Model Collection, the Naval Academy Art Collection, the Malcolm Storer Naval Medals Collection and The Beverley R. Robinson Collection (prints of naval history).
United States Naval Undersea Museum
The U.S. Naval Undersea Museum holds the country’s most comprehensive collection of U.S. Navy artifacts, documents, and reference material related to undersea subjects, and is renowned for several of these specialty collections, especially those in torpedoes, mines, diving and salvage, submarine technology, and unmanned underwater vehicles.
USCG 36460
This 36-foot Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat was built in 1941 in Curtis Bay, Maryland. It is constructed of laminated oak framing with cypress planking, copper-sheathing and a solid 2000lb bronze keel. These self-bailing and self-righting workhorses could handle icy conditions and waves up to 60 feet and had a watertight survivors’ cabin and engine room. The boat served for 35 years before retiring.
USS Constitution Museum
The world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat, this frigate is most noted for actions during the War of 1812, when it captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned the ship the nickname of “Old Ironsides”.
