Major maritime museums in Europe
Information guide No.18
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A list of prominent maritime museums across Europe.
Addresses
| Nationaal Scheepvaartmuseum | Steenplein 1 2000 Antwerp Belgium | 32 3 201 93 40 | Lloyd’s Register collection from 1764 to present (incomplete). Maritime history of Belgium, especially focusing on naval and merchant shipping and trade. |
| Maritime Museum | St. John Fortress 20000 Dubrovnik Republic of Croatia | (+385-20) 32 39 04 |
| Ørlogsmuseet (Royal Danish Naval Museum) | Overgaden Oven Vandet 58 DK-1415 København K Denmark | 45 33 11 60 37 | The Royal Danish Naval collection of ship models, engines and tools. History of the Royal Danish Navy |
| Altonaer Museum in Hamburg | Norddeutsche Landesmuseum Museumstraße 23 22765 Hamburg-Altona Germany | 040 428 135 0 | Lloyd’s Register collection 1764 to 1973 (incomplete) Registre Veritas - various years from 1877 to 1908. History of Northern Germany shipping, shipbuilding and fisheries. |
| Hong Kong Maritime Museum | G/F Murray House Stanley Plaza Stanley Hong Kong | Website |
| Associazione Italiana | Di Documentazione Marittima e Navale Via San Vittore 21-20123 Milan Italy | Many items from the old AustroHungarian Navy. The Ebe, an old training ship of the Italian Navy is on display. Section on naval artillery. Photo collection and library containing some Lloyd’s Register Books. | |
| Museo Archeologico Regionale | Eoliano “Luigi Bernabò Brea” Via del Castello 2 Lipari 98055 (ME) Italy | Artefacts from the seabed surrounding the Aeolian Islands dating from the Bronze Age. | |
| Museo della Marineria | Via Leonardo da Vinci, 2 47042 Cesenatico Forli Italy | Traditional boats of the Adriatic Sea. | |
| Museo Storico Navale Venezia | (Naval History Museum) Castello 2148-30122 Venice Italy | 041 2441 399 | Scale models of ships built in the Venetian shipyard. A fifteenth-century cortela, part of a Venetian galley. |
| Musée Naval | Terrasses du Fontvieille MC-98000 Monte Carlo Monaco | 377 92 05 2848 Website | More than 250 ship models and nautical instruments. Collection includes several antique boats from the private collection of H.S.H. Prince Rainier III of Monaco. |
| Maritime Museum Rotterdam | Library PO Box 988 NL-3000 AZ Rotterdam Netherlands | Holds Lloyd’s Register of Ships, List of Shipowners, Maritime Guide and Register of Offshore Units. | |
| Nationaal Sleepvaart Museum Maassluis | Hoogstraat 1-3 Maassluis Nederland 3142 EA |
| Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum | Bygdøynesveien 37 N - 0286 Oslo Norway | 47 24 22 41 50 | Lloyd’s Register collection 1764 to present (incomplete). The museum focuses on maritime history, ethnology, art and underwater archaeology. |
| Museu de la Pesca | Moll Pesquer, s/n 17230 Palamós Spain | 34 97 260 12 44 | Fishing and maritime heritage |
| Museo de Curiosidades Marinas | Alexandre de Cabanyes, 2 Villanueva y Gelru 08800 Barcelona Spain | 34 93 815 42 63 | Collection of the Lloyd’s Register of Ships |
| Ria de Bilbao Maritime Museum | Muelle Ramón de la Sota, 1 48011 Bilbao Spain | 94 608 55 00 |
| Marinmuseum | Stumholmen SE-371 32 Karlskrona Sweden | 46 (0) 455 539 00 | Lloyd’s Register collection 1889-1941 and 1946-1987. Developments in the Swedish Navy, warship design and shipbuilding. Naval Welfare Gallery charts the development of weaponry and naval gunnery. Full-scale realistic reconstruction of the gun deck of the eighteenth-century Dristigheten. |
| Sjöhistoriska Museet (National Maritime Museum) | Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 24 Box 27131 S-102 52 Stockholm Sweden | 46 8 519 549 00 |
Disclaimer
Researchers should check availability, accessibility and opening times with the repositories listed before making a personal visit.
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