Maritime Museum
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A maritime museum (sometimes
nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on
large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums,
which focus on navies
and the military use of the sea.
The great prize of a maritime
museum is a historic ship (or a replica) made accessible as a museum ship,
but these are large and require a considerable budget to maintain, many museums
preserve smaller or more fragile ships or partial ships within the museum
buildings and most museums exhibit interesting pieces of ships (such as a figurehead
or cannon), ship models,
and miscellaneous small items like cutlery, uniforms, and so
forth.
Ship
modellers often have a close association with maritime museums; not only
does the museum have items that help the modeller achieve better accuracy, but
the museum provides a display space for models larger than will comfortably fit
in a modeller's home; and of course the museum is happy to take a ship model as
a donation. Museums will also commission models.
There are thousands of maritime
museums in the world. Many belong to the International Congress of
Maritime Museums (ICMM), which coordinates members' efforts to acquire,
preserve, and display their material. There is a risk that too many maritime
museums might dilute the experience for the public, while a poorly managed
museeum might put other municipalities off the idea of hosting such a museum.[1]
At 40 acres (162,000 m²), Mystic
Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut can lay claim to the title
of largest museum; it preserves not only a number of sailing
ships, but also a large number of original seaport buildings, including a ship
chandlery, sail loft, ropewalk, and so forth. However, the UK's
National Maritime Museum in Greenwich is
also a contender, with many items of great historical significance, such as the
actual uniform worn by Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
A recent activity of maritime
museums is to build replicas of ships, since there are few survivors that have
not already been restored and put on display.
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