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The Mariners'
Museum, one of the largest international maritime
museums in the world, is dedicated to "illuminating mankind's experience
with the sea and the events that shaped the course and progress of civilization."
It is a nonprofit, educational institution accredited since 1972 by the
American Association of Museums.
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Strandingsmuseum
St. George In the museum you will find exhibited several thousand artefacts recovered from the wreck of HMS St. George, an exhibition of photos of the recent wrecks and - outside the museum - a historical anchors park. |
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The maritime art and history collection,
begun in 1803, is the finest in America. It is internationally renowned
for holdings of approximately 30,000 paintings, drawings, and prints.
The collection also encompasses 20,000 maritime objects dating from the
seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries, including ship models,
marine decorative arts, tools, weapons, navigational instruments, and
ship and yacht plans.
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The Historical
Collections of the Great Lakes (HCGL) at Bowling Green State
University, is a division of University Libraries. Its purpose is
to collect, preserve, and make available to scholars, students, and the
public, historical materials documenting the Great Lakes region and connecting
waterways. The HCGL's collections include materials related to commercial
shipping, shipbuilding, navigation, maritime law, commercial fishing,
shipwrecks, yachting, labor history, popular literature, freshwater ecology,
recreation, and the history of Great Lakes ports.
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The National
Maritime Museum (NMM) was formally established by Act of Parliament
in 1934 and opened to the public by King George VI on 27 April 1937. The
collections comprise about 2.48 million items, many on loan to museums
elsewhere in Britain. The public galleries at Greenwich display a thematically
arranged selection and the remainder are accessible for public interest
and research in various ways.
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HMS Victory
is the only 18th Century ship of the line still to be found anywhere in
the world. She is the world's oldest surviving warship still in use and
is the flagship of the Second Sea Lord, Commander in Chief Naval Home
Command.
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The Australian
National Maritime Museum is a Statutory Authority of the Commonwealth
of Australia. The Museum is responsible to the Federal Minister for the
Arts and Sport. It is one of the National Collecting Institutions within
the Federal Department of Communication, the Information Technology and
the Arts (others include the National Library, National Gallery and National
Museum of Australia).
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Dedicated to the preservation and presentation
of Tasmania’s rich maritime heritage for all time, a visit to the
Maritime Museum of Tasmania is not
to be missed. Tasmania’s rich maritime heritage is reflected in the
Museum’s collection where historic items, paintings and ships models
combine with interesting display panels to unfold a series of fascinating
stories.
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The Western Australian
Museum was established in 1891 (as the ‘Perth
Museum’) and its initial collections were of geological, ethnological
and biological specimens. Indeed, it can claim to be one of the oldest
scientific institutions in the state.
The 1960s and 1970s saw the addition of responsibility for developing and maintaining the state’s anthropological, archaeological, maritime archaeological and social and cultural history collections. |
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The Model Ships Museum
is home to an impressive international collection of submarines, warships,
sailing ships, work vessels, and remote control racers. The Model Ships
Museum is a hobby enthusiasts dream. The showpiece of the museum is a
13 foot long cast replica of HMS Hood. Our online collection will tantalize
as it unlocks some of the magic that is the genius of these amazing model
builders. Home to many pictures, photographs and descriptions this website
delivers many of the benefits of the Model Ships Museum for free.
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The U.S.
Department of the Navy Ship Model Program collects,
preserves, interprets, and displays scale models in federal museums and
offices and in state and local public educational museums and facilities.
Depicting the rich tradition, historical heritage, and technological development
of the United States Navy from earliest times to the present, the Department
of the Navy Ship Model Collection is recognized as a precious national
treasure.
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The Maritime Museum
of Finland
The permanent exhibitions of the Maritime Museum present the history of shipbuilding, life on board a ship, merchant shipping, steam technology, winter navigation and the history of diving. The displays include material raised from the sea. |
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The Naval Museum
has a long tradition stretching back to 1752, when Adolf Fredrik, the
then King of Sweden decreed, that a Ship's Model Room be established in
Karlskrona, and ever since the Museum has been charged with the collection
and conservation of artefacts which would document the history and development
of Sweden's Navy.
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Erie, Pennsylvania takes great pride
as the home of the US Brig Niagara.
This reconstruction of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship in the
battle of Lake Erie was completed in the summer of 1990, and since then
Niagara has embarked on an ambitious program of sailing and historic interpretation.
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