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.
Erie Maritime Museum
Erie, PA, United States
The museum includes maritime subjects. The highlight of the museum is the restored/re-constructed 1813 brig Niagra.
Finger Lakes Boating Museum
Hammondsport, NY, United States
Includes a collection of about 200 boats, the majority of which were built in the Finger Lakes region.
Frammuseet
(The Fram Museum)
Oslo, Norway
The museum includes the ships Fram and Gjøa. The museum itself tells the story of Norwegian polar exploration.
Godspeed
Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Hatteras, NC, United States
The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is a maritime museum that focuses on the maritime history and shipwrecks of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Growler, USS (SSG-577)
An early attempt by the U.S. Navy to field a cruise missile submarine. Part of the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum.
H. L. Hunley, CSS
North Charleston, SC, United States
The night of 17 February 1864, the H. L. Hunley attacked and sank the USS Housatonic, the first submarine ever to sink an enemy ship. But she disappeared on her return. Lost at sea for over a century, the Hunley was located in 1995.
H. Lee White Maritime Museum
Oswego, NY, United States
Exhibits a collection of thousands of artifacts, images, archival records, and original artworks telling over 400 years of regional maritime history. Current home of the tugboat Major Elisha K. Henson (LT-5), one of the few remaining US Army vessels from the Normandy landings.
Halve Maen
(Half Moon)
Hoorn, Netherlands
Halve Maen (Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company ship that sailed into what is now New York in 1609. She was attempting to find a western passage to China.
Hampton Roads Naval Museum
Norfolk, VA, United States
The Hampton Roads Naval Museum is an official museum of the United States Navy, dedicated to the study of over 240 years of naval history in the Hampton Roads region.
Heritage and Diving Village
, United Arab Emirates
The Diving Village explores the history of Dubai’s pearling industry. There are several traditional craft on display.