page_title: Maritime museum
section_title: North America
hierarchical_section_title: Maritime museum / Notable maritime museums / North America
caption_attribution_description: English: Custom House - Salem, Massachusetts. Photograph taken by me, September 2005.
context_page_description: A maritime museum is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use of the sea.
  The great prize of a maritime museum is a historic ship made accessible as a museum ship, but as these are large and require a considerable budget to maintain, many museums preserve smaller or more fragile ships or partial ships within the museum buildings. Most museums exhibit interesting pieces of ships, ship models, and miscellaneous small items associated with ships and shipping, like cutlery, uniforms, and so forth.
  Ship modellers often have a close association with maritime museums; not only does the museum have items that help the modeller achieve better accuracy, but the museum provides a display space for models larger than will comfortably fit in a modeller's home, and of the museum is happy to take a ship model as a donation. Museums will also commission models.
  There are thousands of maritime museums in the world.
context_section_description: The Council of American Maritime Museums serves as network for museum professionals in North America.
  Historic Ships in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, US
  Battleship USS Iowa Museum, Los Angeles, California
  Bermuda Maritime Museum, Sandys Parish, Bermuda
  Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, Buffalo, New York
  Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon, US
  Coral World Ocean Park, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
  Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit, Michigan, US
  Florida Maritime Museum, Cortez, Florida, US
  Great Lakes Floating Maritime Museum, Duluth, Minnesota, US
  H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego, New York, US
  Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, US
  Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, US
  Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
  Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York City
  Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Basin Harbor, Vermont, US
  Long Island Maritime Museum, Long Island, New York, US
  Los Angeles Maritime Museum, Los Angeles, California
  Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine, US
  Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, US – National Maritime Museum
  Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum, Biloxi, MS, US
  Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  Maritime Museum of San Diego, San Diego, California, US
  Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Maritime Museum, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, California, US
  Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut, US
  National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, Florida, US
  National Museum of the United States Navy, Washington, D.C., US
  Nauticus, Norfolk, Virginia, US
  Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, Washington, US
  Naval War College Museum, Newport, Rhode Island, US
  New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, US
  PT Boat Museum, Fall River, Massachusetts, US
  Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts.
  Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Santa Barbara, California US
  Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
  South Street Seaport, New York City
  Tahoe Maritime Museum, Homewood, California, US
  Tuckerton Seaport, Tuckerton, New Jersey, US
  United States Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland, US
  U.S. Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, Connecticut, US
  USS Constitution Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, US
  Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
  Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
  Camden Shipyard & Maritime Museum
caption: Customs House at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts.
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