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The National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom, and one of the most important and largest of its kind in the world. It is based primarily in Greenwich adjacent to Greenwich Park. The Museum also has a branch in a harbourside building at Falmouth, Cornwall.
The National Maritime Museum houses a wide and varied collection of exhibits relating to Britain's extensive naval heritage; with over two million items in its collection from ships' anchors to royal rowing barges, from naval uniforms to paintings of naval heroes and explorers. There are Twenty galleries displaying some of its finest objects, covering many aspects of ships, seafaring and marine affairs, in historic buildings which were formerly a school for the sons of seamen.
Some of the famous items to be found in the museum are the Enamelled telescope by Frazer & Son, 1790. A Portrait of the famous explorer Captain James Cook (1728-79) by Nathaniel Dance and a scale model of the luxurious liner Mauretania, 1907, which was marketed as the 'eighth wonder of the world.
The museum site 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 Greenwich Observatory.
The museum also has a wave tank and vortex machine to experience the mysteries of the ocean waves plus a Planetarium in which you can see the sky at night in the middle of the day! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maritime_Museum)
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