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We have all heard the saying ‘clothes maketh the man’. Perhaps it’s doubly true for women – especially those women who disguised themselves in order to run away to sea.

Discover how the National Maritime Museum's 2023 LGBTQ+ Families in Residence created a collaborative short animated film that was screened at the Out at Sea Family Festival - and what they thought about the experience.

2025 at Royal Museums Greenwich will see the opening of a new major exhibition Pirates in March, which traces the changing depictions of pirates through the ages. The Royal Observatory Greenwich will be celebrating its 350th anniversary with a year-long calendar of public events including activities, talks and special planetarium shows. The mesmerising Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition will return to the National Maritime Museum in September, displaying another year of breath-taking space images.

In March 2025 the major exhibition Pirates will open at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), tracing the changing depictions of pirates throughout the ages and revealing the brutal history often obscured by fiction.

Barred from the seafaring life, women had to disguise themselves as men if they wanted to experience the high seas - and brave the consequences of being found out

Discover the story of the pioneering 16th-century pirate and seafarer – and her surprising links to Greenwich