National Maritime Museum

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National Maritime Museum
The entire building complex of the National Maritime Museum
Artwork "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle"

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , London houses around two million maritime exhibits and is considered the largest museum of maritime history in the world.

history

The museum was founded in 1934 and opened in 1937. The first director was Geoffrey Callender . Since then it has housed an extensive archive of items and documents from the field of seafaring. Flags of the German Empire , German model ships and paintings from the Mürwik Naval School also found their way into the National Maritime Museum. After British soldiers occupied the Mürwik special area on May 23, 1945 and arrested the last Reich government there , the Mürwik Naval School was demilitarized and some of the inventory was confiscated.

The large ship in a bottle by the Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare Nelson's Ship in a Bottle , which stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London from May 24, 2010 to January 30, 2012 , was bought by the museum and can now be seen there .

Exhibitions

In addition to the permanent exhibitions, special exhibitions are held regularly. This included, for example, the special exhibition on the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) in 2005 , where the main attraction was Lord Nelson's uniform skirt , where the hole of the fatal shot can still be seen.

  • 2017/2018: Death in the Ice . Catalog.

Branch office

A branch of the museum is located in Falmouth (Cornwall) , where besides special exhibitions and general content explaining the sea and nautical science , the history and importance of seafaring and fishing for Cornwall is presented. A large part of the museum collection is available online.

literature

  • Basil Greenhill (Ed.): National Maritime Museum. The British Maritime Museum in Greenwich near London . Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08762-0 .
  • Timothy Wilson: Flags at Sea . National Maritime Museum and Chatham Publishing, London 1986, ISBN 1-86176-116-3 . (History of the maritime flag industry and an overview of the flag inventory in the museum)
  • John Franklin: Navy Board ship models, 1650-1750 . Conway Maritime Press, London 1989, ISBN 0-85177-454-7 .

Web links

Commons : National Maritime Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tides. The last days of the Dönitz government in Mürwik. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. shz.de from December 2, 2009, accessed on August 27, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gezeiten.shz.de
  2. ^ Martin Bailey: Revealed: Nazi painting in London's Maritime Museum looted by British. ( Memento of January 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Art Newspaper. January 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ Jörg Hillmann , Reinhard Scheiblich: The red castle by the sea. The Mürwik Naval School since its foundation . Hamburg 2002, p. 93.
  4. ↑ In the Arctic Ocean, hope ran aground in FAZ on December 5, 2017, page 11

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 52 ″  N , 0 ° 0 ′ 20 ″  W.