Research areas & projects

The Trustees of the National Maritime Museum approved the latest Research Strategy on 19 February 2009.
The Museum also takes very seriously its Policy on Good Conduct and Practice in Research.

  • The Board of Longitude 1714–1828
    A major new AHRC-funded five-year research project on the British Board of Longitude, led by Professor Simon Schaffer and Dr Richard Dunn.
    The Board of Longitude 1714–1828
  • Centre for Imperial & Maritime Studies
    The Centre supports research on the Museum's imperial and maritime collections, and seeks to engage a wider audience...
    Centre for Imperial & Maritime Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Art & Travel
    The Centre will support research into the Museum’s extensive, primarily paper collections relating to this area and provide a forum for scholarly...
    Centre for the Study of Art & Travel
  • Hakluyt Editorial Project
    An exciting output of our recent conference is the formation of a group of scholars to discuss preparation of a new edition of Richard Hakluyt's...
    Hakluyt Editorial Project
  • Sustaining the Empire
    The research project investigated how the Royal Navy fed itself during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815.
    Sustaining the Empire
  • The National Maritime Museum holds information relating to over 20,000 British warships from about...
    Warship Histories