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MUSEUMS and MUSEUM SHIPS

Argentina
http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Armada%20Argentina/MuseoNaval/MuseoNavalbase.htm - Museo Naval de la Nacion, Tigre (near Buenos Aires).

Austria
http://www.hgm.or.at/ - Austrian Armed Forces Historical Museum, Vienna, with naval department.
http://www.tmw.at/ - Technical Museum, Vienna.
http://www.spitz-wachau.at/kultur/schifffahrtsmuseum.htm - Danube shipping museum, Spitz, Wachau.

Belgium
http://visit.antwerpen.be/Bezoekerssite-DU/Publicatiekanalen/Stad/Antwerpenbe/Bezoekerssites/Bezoekerssite-DU/Bezoekerssite-DU-Bezoekerssite-DU/Bezoekerssite-DU-Bezoekerssite-DU-Doelgroepnavigatie/besucher/Aktivitten/Aktivitten-Sehenswrdigkeiten/Aktivitten-Museen-MAS.html - The National Maritime Museum - 'Museum aa het Stroom' (MAS), Antwerp (to be re-opened in 2011).
http://www.visserijmuseum.be/ - National Fishing Museum Oostduinkerke, Gem. Koksijd.

Canada
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/ - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
http://hmcshaida.ca/ - Tribal Class of the Royal Canadian Navy, Hamilton, Ontario.
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fma/ - Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
http://www.marmuseum.ca/ - Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario.
http://mmbc.bc.ca/ - Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria, Vancouver Island.
http://www.mmq.qc.ca/ - Musee Maritime du Quebec, L'Islet, Quebec.
http://www.naval-museum.mb.ca/ - Naval Museum of Manitoba.
http://www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com/ - Vancouver Maritime Museum with exploration vessel St. ROCH, Vancouver.

Croatia
http://www.mdc.hr/dubrovnik/nj/pomorski/index.html - Dubrovnik Maritime Musuem.
http://www.leut-krk.hr/leut2/glavnaEN.html - Private museum of Zeljko Skomersic on the island Krk.
http://www.kuk-marine-museum.com/- 'Unsere k.(u.)k. Marine' - 'Our Austrian Navy', Museum in Novi Grad - very nice models!
http://www.tz-rijeka.hr/english/culture_museums_maritime.asp - Museum of the Adriatic Maritime Culture, Rijeka.

Denmark
http://www.aalborgmarinemuseum.dk/ - Maritime Museum, Aalborg
http://www.fregatten-jylland.dk/ - The preserved steam-frigate JYLLAND (1860), Ebelstoft.
http://www.orlogsmuseet.dk/ - Museum of the Royal Danish Navy, Copenhagen (excellent on-line-datenbase of drawings and models)
http://www.maritime-museum.dk/ - Commercial and Maritime Museum, Kronborg Castle, Helsingör.
http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/ - Viking-Ship Museum, Roskilde.
http://www.museums.dk/ - List of the Web-pages of all danish museums, including the maritime ones.

Estonia
http://www.hot.ee/virbit/revell1.html - Museum of the Baltic Sea, private pages.

Finnland
http://www.pommern.aland.fi/ - The ex-Flying-P liner POMMERN at Åland
http://www.nba.fi/en/mmf - The Finnish National Maritime Museum in Kotka, 130 km East of Helsinki.
http://www.suomenlinna.fi/en/ - The fortress Suomenlinna/Sveaborg that protected the Helsinki roadstead.

France
http://www.musee-marine.fr/index.php?lg=fr&nav=108 - Dependence of the Musée de la Marine, Brest
http://www.musees-haute-normandie.fr/fiche.php3?lang=fr&id_article=32 - Museum zur Seine-Fischerei in Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandie
http://www.expo-land.com/public/stand.php?id_stand=94 - Fisheries museum, Concarneau, Bretagne.
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/vexin.fr/AMB/ - Inland shipping museum at the Seine, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (78)
http://www.corderie-royale.com/fr - National Ropery in Rochefort and shipyard of the replica frigate HERMIONE.
http://www.dieppe.fr/mini-sites/chateau-musee - Maritime museum in the Dieppe Fortress, Normandie
http://www.2p2m.org/musee_presentation.php?musee=3 - Marinemuseum Etaples, Pas de Calais.
http://www.museedesthoniers.fr/ - Thuna fisheries museum, Etel, Brittany
http://www.ville-fecamp.fr/Musee-des-Terre-Neuvas-et-de-la.html - Newfoundland fisheries museum, Fecamp, Normandy.
http://www.ville-honfleur.fr/musee-de-la-marine,0,0,141.html - Musée de la Marine in Honfleur, Normany
http://www.musee-marine.fr/ - Musée de la Marine, Paris.
http://www.musee-marine.fr/site/fr/rochefort_histoire_hotel_de_cheusse - Dependence of the Musée de la Marine in Rochefort
http://www.musee-maritime-rouen.asso.fr/ - Maritime Museum in Rouen, Normandy.
http://www.musee-marine.fr/index.php?lg=fr&nav=203 - Dependence of the Musée de la Marine in Toulon.

Greece
http://www.bsaverof.com/ - The Greek Navy's rotected cruiser G. AVEROF of 1910, Piraeus.
http://www.nauticalmuseum.com/ekthemata/14.htm - Nautical Museum Chios.
http://www.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3486 - Aegaean Maritime Museum, Mykonos.
http://www.hmm.gr/ - Greek National Maritime Museum, Piräus.

Germany
Arnsberg
http://www.mhs-arnsberg.de/ - Private naval collection

Berlin
http://www.dtmb.de/ - German Technical Museum Berlin with extensive shipping department
http://www.historischer-hafen-berlin.de/ - Historical harbour Berlin
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/smb/kalender/details.php?objID=8771&lang=de&typeId=10&PHPSESSID=eb10b16865c330017b27a969b316889f - Ethnographical Museum with important Pacific department including a collection of historical boats.

Borkum
http://62.159.203.90/homepage/heimatmuseum/index.htm - Local museum on the island

Brake
http://www.schiffahrtsmuseum-brake.de/ - Lower Weser Maritime Museum

Bremen
http://www.focke-museum.de/ - Local historical museum with important maritime collection
http://www.uebersee-museum.de/ - 'Colonial' and overseas trade museum

Bremerhaven
http://www.dsm.museum/ - German National Maritime Museum

Carolinensiel
http://www.deutsches-sielhafenmuseum.de/ - Local (fishing) museum

Cuxhaven
http://www.fischereimuseum-cuxhaven.de/ - Fisheries museum (private)
http://www.cuxhaven.de/cuxhaven_509.php - Town museum with maritime collections
http://www.wrackmuseum.city-map.de/ - North Sea Wreck Museum
http://www.relikte.com/cux_forts/index.htm - The coastal defences around Cuxhaven
http://www.cuxhaven.de/cuxhaven_930.php - The coastal defences around Cuxhaven

Dornumer Siel
http://www.zwei-siele-museum-dornumersiel.de/ - Local (fishing) museum

Dresden
http://www.verkehrsmuseum-dresden.de/ - Transport Museum with shipping department

Duesseldorf
http://www.schifffahrt-museum.duesseldorf.city-map.de/ - River Rhine shipping museum

Duisburg:
http://www.duisburg.de/micro/binnenschifffahrt/ - German inland water transport museum

Emmerich
http://www.emmerich.de/kommunen/emmerich/www-emm.nsf/index?readform - River Rhine shipping museum

Flensburg
http://www.flensburg.de/kultur/museen/schifffahrtsmuseum/index.html - Maritime Museum
http://www.holgersimonsen.de/museumsw/muwerft.htm - The Flensburg historic shipbuilding yard has no Web-site of its own!

Göhren (Mönchgut Peninsula on the island of Rügen)
http://www.moenchguter-museen-ruegen.de/ - Local (fishing) museum.

Hamburg
http://www.altonaermuseum.de/ - Town museum with extensive shipping and fishing collections
http://www.deutsches-zollmuseum.de/ - Revenue cutters as prototypes and models
http://www.hamburgmuseum.de/ - Hamburg's historical museum
http://www.museumsstiftung.de/hamburg/ - Telecommunications Museum with models of cable-layers
http://www.internationales-maritimes-museum.de/ - Museum of the Tamm-Foundation (the most important German private maritime collector)
http://www.schulauer-faehrhaus.de/ - Ferry-point with collection of ships-in-bottles

Husum
http://www.schiffahrtsmuseum-nf.de/ - Northern Frisian Maritime Museum

Kiel
http://www.kiel.de/kultur/museen/start.php - Maritime museum

Koblenz
http://www.bwb.org/01DB022000000001/vwContentByKey/W26EJB3D868INFODE - German military technology historical research institute with some naval 'hardware'.

Kressbronn/Bodensee
http://historische-schiffsmodelle.com/ - Permanent exhibition of the models by Ivan Trtanj (excellent woodworking/-carving)

Mainz
http://web.rgzm.de/index.php?id=36 - Museum of Roman age shipping on the Rhine with archaeological finds and replicas.

München
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ - The German Technical Museum with important maritime department

Papenburg
http://www.papenburg-tourismus.de/seiten/attraktionen/schifffahrtsmuseum_seite.php - Papenburg was and is an important shipbuilding town.

Prerow
http://www.fischland-darss.net/index_neu.html?fischland_darss/wissenswertes/museen.htm - Local (fishing) museum.
http://www.all-in-all.com/1149/index.htm - Local (fishing) museum.

Rostock
Schiffahrtsmuseum ? - The maritime museum was closed due to the lack of funds ...
http://www.iga-park-rostock.de/_cmsdata/_cache/cms_52.html - Cargo ship of the 1950s, steam-tug of the 1910s

Schleswig
http://www.schloss-gottorf.de/wmh/index.php - Viking-ship museum and archaeological finds of the Haithabu settlement.

Stralsund
http://www.meeresmuseum.de/ - Maritime Museum.
http://www.beepworld.de/members72/marinemuseum-daenholm/ - Naval museum on the Dänholm island.

Lower Elbe River
http://maritime-elbe.de/schiffahrt/tradition_detail.php - Directory of historical ships that are preserved at the Lower Elbe River.

Wilhelmshaven
http://www.marinemuseum.de/ - Naval Museum
http://www.kuestenmuseum-whv.de - Coastal museum (their collection of Imperial Navy ships by Willy Fraider appear to be in storage due to being perceived as being less then politically correct ?)

Wischhafen
http://www.kuestenschiffahrtsmuseum.de/ - Coastal shipping museum

Wolgast
http://www.museum.wolgast.de/xhtml/home.html - Town museum with some Baltic shipping.
http://www.museum.wolgast.de/xhtml/faehre.html - Preserved railway traject 'Stralsund'

Zinnowitz/Usedom
http://www.insel-usedom.net/zwmuseum.htm - Local (fisheries) museum

Hungary
http://www.marineverband.at/berichte/leitha.htm - Restauration project for the k.u.k. Danube Monitor SMS LEITHA

Italy
http://www.sportesport.it/museums005it.htm - Directory of maritime museums in Italy.
http://www.modellismo-navale.it/MONOGRAFIE/museoTA/sede_origniaria_museo/sede_museo.html - Museo Marinaro Tommasino-Andreatta, Chiavari (GE).
http://www.museonavale.it/ - Maritime Musuem, Genova.
http://www.cec.it/Comuni/IMPERIA/NAVAL/INDEX.HTM - Museo Navale Internazionale, Imperia.
http://web.tiscalinet.it/museodelmare/index.htm - Museo del Mare, Ischia.
http://www.marina.difesa.it/laspezia/index.asp - Naval Museum, La Spezia.
http://www.museoscienza.org/ - Technical Museum Milano with extensive shipping department.
http://www.retecivica.trieste.it/triestecultura/musei/scientifici/museomare/mareframe.htm - Maritime Museum, Trieste.
http://www.marina.difesa.it/venezia/info.asp - Museo Storico Navale di Venezia.

Japan
http://www.funenokagakukan.or.jp/ - Maritime Museum, Tokyo-Odaiba

Lithuania
http://www.muziejai.lt/Klaipeda/juru_muziejus.en.htm - Lithuanian Maritime Museum, Klaipeda.

Malta
http://www.heritagemalta.org/maritimemuseum.html - Maltese Maritime Museum

Netherlands
http://www.maritiemdigitaal.nl/ - Internet database for all Dutch Maritime Museums.
http://www.bataviawerf.nl/ - Shipyard that has reconstructed several historic Dutch ships.
http://www.buitenmuseum.nl/ - Harbour Museum, Rotterdam.
http://www.dedelft.nl/ - Replica project for the Dutch 16th century frigate DELFT.
http://www.dehelling.info/ - Private Museum/Wooden Boatbuilding Yard at Heeg/Heech, Friesland.
http://www.katwijksmuseum.nl/ - Katwijk Museum of Shipping and Fisheries
http://www.maritiemmuseum.nl/ - Prins Hendrik Maritime Museum with ironclad BUFFLE, Rotterdam.
http://www.marine.nl/historie/marinemuseum/ - Museum of Royal Dutch Navy with ironclad SCHORPIOEN and others, Den Helder.
http://www.nationaalsleepvaartmuseum.nl/ - Dutch Towage Museum.
http://www.stichtingbonaire.nl/ - Foundation for the restoration of the steam-gunboat BONAIRE (1877), Den Helder.
http://www.reddingmuseum.nl/ - Life-boat Museum, Den Helder; various historical life-boats (e.g. INSULINDE) and models.
http://www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl/ - Maritime Museum Amsterdam !!Attention currently closed for reconstruction!!
http://www.noordelijkscheepvaartmuseum.nl/ - Maritime Museum of the North in Groningen, Friesland.
http://www.statenjacht.nl/ - Sailing replica of an 18th century Dutch state yacht.
http://www.texelsmaritiem.nl/ - 17th century Texel Roadstead diorama by Artitec on the island of Texel
http://www.visserij-museum.nl/ - Fisheries Museum in Vlissingen.
http://www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl/ - Shipping, fishing and cultural history of the Zuiderzee before it became the Ijsselmeer.
http://www.friesscheepvaartmuseum.nl/ - The Frisian Maritime Museum in Sneek (no photography, but their Web-site is almost better than the museum itself anyway).

Norway
http://www.bsj.uib.no/index.shtml- Bergens Sjøfartsmuseum
http://www.fram.museum.no/ - FRAM-Museum, Roald Amundsen's ship in Oslo
http://www.kon-tiki.no/ - His theories have been proved wrong, but anyway: Thor Heyerdal's legacies.
http://www.khm.uio.no/info/vskip_huset/index.php - Viking-ships at the Museum for Cultural History in Oslo
http://www.norsk-sjofartsmuseum.no/ - The Nordic Maritime Museum in Oslo

Oman
http://www.omanwhs.gov.om/mh/maritime.htm - Maritime department within the Historical Museum, Muscat.

Poland
http://www.cmm.pl/ - Polish Maritime Museum, Danzig.

Portugal
http://museu.marinha.pt/museu/site/pt - Maritime Museum, Belém, Lisabon.
http://www.cm-cascais.pt/Cascais/Cascais/Patrimonio/Museus/Museu_do_Mar.htm - Museu do Mar Rei D. Carlos, Cascais, Lisabon (many models of portuguese boats)
http://www.cidadevirtual.pt/fragata/indexuk.html - The restored frigate 'D. FERNANDO II E GLÓRIA''

Romania
http://www.comeinromania.com/va-1200041187-muzeul_marinei_romane.html - National Maritime Museum, Constanta.

Russia
http://www.aurora.org.ru - The protected cruiser AURORA
http://www.krasin.org/ - Ice-breaker KRASSIN (Note security messages on the site !)

Spain
http://www.museumaritimbarcelona.com/ - The Barcelona Maritime Museum
http://www.museonavalmadrid.com/ - Spanish Naval Museum (stately old building and full of models)

Sweden
http://www.branteviksmuseum.com/ - Maritime Museum Brantevik and Hoppet Foundation
http://www.gmtc.se/ - Maritime Centre Göteborg (various museum ships and boats)
http://www.sjofartsmuseum.goteborg.se/ - Maritime Museum, Göteborg.
http://www.sjofararkusten.h.se/marinmuseum.html - Naval Museum, Karlskrona
http://www.sjohistoriska.se/ - Maritime Museum, Stockholm.
http://www.vasamuseet.se/Vasamuseet/Om.aspx - The WASA in Stockholm

Switzerland
http://www.seemuseum.ch/ - Lake Constance shipping museum, Kreuzlingen (a stone-throw from Constance, Germany).
http://www.verkehrshaus.ch/ - Swiss Transport Museum, Luzern (shipping on lakes, River Rhine and world-wide)

Thailand
http://www.thailandmuseum.com/thaimuseum_eng/maritime/main.html - National Thai Maritime Museum

Turkey
http://www.denizmuzeleri.tsk.tr/en/idmk/ - National Maritime Museum, Istanbul

United Kingdom
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mhe1000/marmus.htm - Directory of maritime museums on the British Isles
http://www.chdt.org.uk/ - Chatham Dockyard including. H.M.S. GANNET (1878) and life-boats
http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/ - The CUTTY SARK
http://www.nmmc.co.uk/ - National Maritime Museum Cornwall (hosts part of the boat collection of the NMM)
http://www.ohps.org.uk/fishermens_museum/ - Hastings Fishermen's Museum with lots of fishing boat models
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/ - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
http://www.flagship.org.uk/ - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/ - S.S. GREAT BRITAIN including National Brunel Archive and David MacGregor Library.
http://www.pskc.freeserve.co.uk/ - Sidewheeler KINGSWEAR CASTLE, Chatham
http://www.motorboatmuseum.org.uk/ - in Basildon, Essex
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/ - Harbour Museum, London
http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/ - H.M.S. TRINCOMALEE, 38 gun frigate of 1817, Hartlepool, County Durham (NO England)
http://www.frigateunicorn.org/ - Restoration project frigate H.M.S. UNICORN von 1824.
http://www.hmswarrior.org/ - H.M.S. WARRIOR (1860) in Portsmouth
http://www.steamboat.co.uk/ - Windermere Steamboat-Museum (currently closed for refurbishment)

USA
http://www.maritimemuseums.net/ - Dictrionary of maritime museums in the USA
http://www.battleshipcove.com/ - Fall River, MA.
http://www.baltomaritimemuseum.org/ - Maritime Museum Baltimore, MA, with frigate U.S.S. CONSTELLATION
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/ - Hawaiian and South Seas cultural history and boatbuilding, Honolulu, Hawaii
http://www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/ - The frigate U.S.S. CONSTITUTION in Boston, MA.
http://www.kwm.org/ - Whaling Museum, Kendall, MA.
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/ - Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA.
http://www.mos.org/ - Museum of Science, Boston, MA, with nice model collection.
http://www.mysticseaport.org/ - The Mystic Seaport Museum.
http://www.brigniagara.org/ - Replica of the Great Lakes brigg NIAGARA (1812).
http://www.phillyseaport.org/ - Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, with the U.S.S. OLYMPIA (1892)
http://www.sdmaritime.com/ - San Diego Maritime Museum, CA, including iron sailing ship STAR OF INDIA (1863) and a replica of H.M.S. SURPRISE (18th century frigate).
http://www.si.edu/ - Smithonian Institution, Washington, DC, with extensive model collection.
http://www.ussmissouri.com/ - Battleship U.S.S. MISSOURI (1944), Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.

General
http://home.datacomm.ch/imthurn/ - Private, commented directory of museums and museum ships around the World

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