National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London is home to about 2 million exhibits from the field of navigation and is thus regarded as the largest National Maritime Museum in the world.

In addition to the permanent exhibitions are regularly held exhibitions. This included, for example, in 2005 the special exhibition on the Battle of Trafalgar (1805 ), but the main attraction of the tunic Lord Nelson was in the hole of the fatal shot is yet to be seen.

The museum also houses an extensive archive of articles and documents in the field of seafaring. Much of the collection is available online.

A branch of the Museum is located in Falmouth ( Cornwall), where in addition to special and general, the sea and nautical explanatory content, the history and significance of shipping and fishing for Cornwall are shown.

The large ship in a bottle of Nigerian- British artist Yinka Shonibare, Nelson 's Ship in a Bottle, that on the fourth plinth stood in Trafalgar Square in London on May 24, 2010 to January 30, 2012, was purchased from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and is to see there now.

The museum was founded in 1934 and opened in 1937. The first Director was Geoffrey Callender.

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