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The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in England is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom, and one of the most important in the world. It is based primarily in Greenwich adjacent to Greenwich Park.

Contents 1 Collection 2 The site 3 See also 4 External link

[edit] Collection

The NMM houses a wide and varied collection of exhibits relating to Britain's extensive naval heritage; items range from ships' anchors to royal rowing barges, from naval uniforms to paintings of naval heroes and explorers. The collection includes the Bounty Chronometer, recovered from Pitcairn Island.

[edit] The site

The Museum also has a branch in a harbourside building at Falmouth, Cornwall.

The museum site also includes the Queen's House (part of the historic park-and-palace landscape of "Maritime Greenwich", which was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997) and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, until 1948 the home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

In addition to its open exhibits, the Museum houses an extensive archive of objects and documents relating to seafaring, navigation and ships. Much of this collection is available online.

[edit] See also

• List of London museums
• Greenwich Visitor Centre
• Australian National Maritime Museum
• National Waterways Museum — UK's national museum of inland waterway transport

[edit] External link

• National Maritime Museum

Museums and Galleries in London

British Museum · Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms · Design Museum · Dulwich Picture Gallery · Estorick Collection · Freud Museum · Geffrye Museum · Hayward Gallery · HMS Belfast · Horniman Museum · Imperial War Museum · London's Transport Museum · Museum of London · National Gallery · National Maritime Museum · National Portrait Gallery · Natural History Museum · Queen's Gallery · Royal Academy of Arts · Saatchi Gallery · Science Museum · Serpentine Gallery · Sir John Soane's Museum · Somerset House – Courtauld Gallery, Gilbert Collection, Hermitage Rooms · Tate Britain · Tate Modern · Theatre Museum · Victoria and Albert Museum · V&A Museum of Childhood · Wallace Collection · Whitechapel Art Gallery

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