National Maritime Museum
What Visitors Say
Free for all!Came lunch time.Great museum!Good collection.Beautiful paintings - at the queen’s house tudor, stuart era.👌🏻Really worth it to visit.You can spend hours it looking at the masterpieces. And strolling the nearby uphill park.Very beautiful park and clean! Great that it is free!😊
I went there with my 2 sons on 9 Jan 2026 and joined the guided tour. It was very informative and entertaining. Love the place. All the items are properly spaced and lit up. Not crowded at all. All the tourists have left and kids are back at school.
Very interesting Museum with rotating displays and some standard ones. My favourite part was the map of the ocean, it gives an interesting perspective on the globe in a new way! Stiff for kids and adults, go enjoy and maybe learn!
Wow—what a fantastic visit to the National Maritime Museum! It’s free to enter, which is amazing value, and the café is lovely with reasonable prices. The children’s play areas and interactive sections are excellent and kept the kids fully engaged. A brilliant day out for families.
Super nice staff. We had a nice time at the Ahoy gallery, the cafeteria and the Cove outdoors playground. We purchased tickets for the Ahoy gallery in advance, since they usually sold out on the weekends. The gallery was closed for a while and I thought it was going to be improved, but we didn't notice any difference. They need to restock some of the toys because they are missing many pieces.
Highlights
Nelson’s Trafalgar Coat
Uniform worn at Trafalgar (1805)Look for the visible bullet hole - a stark reminder of the battle that shaped Britain’s naval story.
Nelson, Navy, Nation gallery
Sea Things Wall
1000+ curious maritime objectsFrom Roman anchors to sailor-made scrimshaw, this floor-to-ceiling display tells seafaring stories in objects.
Ground-floor ‘Sea Things’ gallery
Pacific Encounters
Oceans as cultural highwaysNavigation, voyaging canoes and exchange show how Pacific peoples mapped seas long before GPS.
First-floor galleries
Polar Worlds
Arctic & Antarctic survivalEquipment, diaries and photographs bring Franklin, Scott and Shackleton-era expeditions into sharp focus.
Exploration galleries
Time & Longitude
Finding your place at seaMarine chronometers and instruments reveal how precision timekeeping unlocked global navigation.
Navigation & astronomy displays
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
Opened by King George VI on 27 April 1937; created under an Act of Parliament in 1934.
Part of Royal Museums Greenwich alongside the Royal Observatory, the Queen’s House and Cutty Sark.
Holds over two million items - from ship models and charts to paintings, uniforms and figureheads.
Vice-Admiral Nelson’s Trafalgar uniform is displayed with the fatal bullet hole still visible.
General admission is free; charges apply for some special exhibitions.
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