Press release
National Maritime Museum acquires model of HMM Algeciras, one of the largest container ships in the world
The new model of HMM Algeciras joins the world's largest collection of ship models at the National Maritime Museum
Press release
National Maritime Museum acquires Liquid Traces: The Left to Die Boat Case from Forensic Oceanography
The National Maritime Museum has recently acquired Liquid Traces: The Left to Die Boat Case, a video made by Forensic Oceanography researchers in 2014.
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Drawing Mars
Grab your sketchbooks and venture to the Red Planet in this special drawing workshop
Royal Observatory | Venue Hire
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the home of British astronomy, Greenwich Meantime, and the Prime Meridian of the world
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Sundials
For thousands of years, the sundial has told the time and divided the day.
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Which time is it?
Next time someone asks you the time, you may enquire if they want to know the atomic, universal, civil, local, solar or sidereal time
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Cutty Sark's main deck and ship's wheel
Do you have what it takes to steer 963 tons of Victorian tea clipper on the high seas?
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Explore the captain's cabin
Come aboard Cutty Sark and discover how the crew lived, where they ate, slept - and even where they went to the loo
Meet the captains of Cutty Sark
Who were the master mariners who captained the fastest ship of its time?