This is an alphabetical listing of maritime museums and museum ships located around the world. Libraries with significant maritime holdings are also included. You can use the optional fields to filter by type and country, or use the geoloacted list or map. Please contact us if you would like a museum to be added to this list.
Discovery
Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.
Dolphin, USS (AGSS-555)
A United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
East End Seaport Museum
Greenport, NY, United States
Local museum presenting local boatbuilding and lighthouse history. Large collection of Fresnel lenses.
East Hampton Town Marine Museum
Amagansett, NY, United States
The Marine Museum tells the unique story of Long Island’s East End community and its relationship with the sea through artifacts, photographs, models, and displays.
Edmeé S.
(ex. Cecelia Mae)
Chesapeake Bay’s racing log canoe from the 1930s. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
Edna E. Lockwood
A National Historic Landmark, and the oldest sailing log-bottom bugeye, built in 1889. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
Elva C
A buy boat built in 1922 by Gilbert S. White in Westland, VA. She was built for Capt. Lee Abbot of Foxwells, who named her after his daughter and used her for pound net fishing and freight until 1955. She had two more owners before being donated to the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.
Erie Canal Museum
Models, displays, and artifacts explaining the origin, construction, and use of the Erie Canal.