Research centre exhibition opens in the E-Library

Important information for visitors

Until summer 2025, there is a new visitor route at the National Maritime Museum while we carry out essential improvements to the Museum's roof. Most galleries will still be open as normal, and special exhibitions are currently free for all visitors. However, the Great Map and AHOY! will be closed for the duration of the works. Find out more.

Essential Information

Location	National Maritime Museum

15 Oct 2008

The Museum has an ambitious project to re-house core archival collections on-site and build a research and reading room in a major new wing. This project has just received a substantial boost with a commitment of £5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This support, together with the substantial £20m gift from international shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy Ofer, sets the project firmly on track to open in 2012.

The new wing will feature more than an archive research centre. There will also be a dedicated space for special exhibitions, a new café, brasserie and shop, a much-needed new entrance from the south, and a new orientation gallery featuring key iconic objects from the archives and our 3-D collections.

You can find out more about the scheme from a small exhibition just outside the Caird Library, and online at www.nmm.ac.uk/seachange. We welcome your comments.

Margarette Lincoln (Deputy Director)