page_title: Maritime museum
section_title: Europe
hierarchical_section_title: Maritime museum / Notable maritime museums / Europe
caption_attribution_description: Genova, immagine dal porto antico, piazza Caricamento
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: Aalborg Søfarts- og Marinemuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
  Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland
  Cité de la Mer, Cherbourg-Octeville, France
  Danish Maritime Museum, Kronborg Castle, Helsingør, Denmark
  Dutch Navy Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands
  Fries Scheepvaart Museum, Sneek, Netherlands
  Estonian Maritime Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  Fisheries and Maritime Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
  Forum Marinum, Turku, Finland
  Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa, Italy
  German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany
  Hull Maritime Museum, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom
  Internationales Maritimes Museum in Hamburg, Germany
  The Frigate Jylland, Ebeltoft, Denmark
  Lancaster Maritime Museum, Lancaster, England
  Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Suffolk, England
  Malta Maritime Museum, Birgu, Malta
  Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden
  Marinemuseet, Karljohansvern, Horten, Norway
  Maritime Center Vellamo, Kotka, Finland
  Maritime Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  Maritime Museum Ria de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  Maritime Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  Maritime Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
  Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  Musée national de la Marine, Paris, France
  Musée National de la Marine in Brest, Brest, France
  Musée National de la Marine in Port-Louis, Port-Louis, France
  Musée National de la Marine in Rochefort, Rochefort, France
  Musée National de la Marine in Toulon, Toulon, France
  Naval Museum of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  Museo Storico Navale, Venice, Italy
  Museo Tecnico Navale , La Spezia, Italy
  Museu de Marinha, Lisbon, Portugal
  Museum of the World Ocean, Kaliningrad, Russia
  Museum of the Sea, Cascais
  National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
  National Maritime Museum, Cornwall, United Kingdom
  National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, United Kingdom
  National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland
  National Maritime Museum, Gdańsk, Poland
  National Maritime Museum in Szczecin, Poland
  Passage West Maritime Museum, Cork, Ireland
  Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, Scotland, United Kingdom
  Southampton Maritime Museum, Southampton, England, United Kingdom
  Turkish Naval Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  Rauma Maritime Museum, Rauma, Finland
  Royal Danish Naval Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Russian Navy Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
  Vikin Maritime Museum in Reykjavík, Iceland
  Westfjords Heritage Museum, Iceland
caption: Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, the largest Maritime Museum of the Mediterranean[2]
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