Exchange: Community-Led Collections Research
Learn about this joint initiative with National Museums Scotland to explore experiences of race, empire and migration in museum collections
How to create a hat like Joseph Johnson
Meet Joseph Johnson, merchant seaman who worked on ships transporting goods across the seas, and make your own version of its ship-shaped hat.
Creative responses to the Atlantic Worlds Intervention
Explore poems and photographs created by young people as part of the one-day intervention held in the National Maritime Museum's Atlantic Worlds gallery
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When is dawn, dusk and twilight?
How do we calculate the precise moment of sunrise or sunset? And exactly when is twilight?
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images
See the shortlisted images from the world's greatest space photography competition
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Collective Spirit
1,200 wooden fragments, one vessel of memories - see Collective Spirit at the National Maritime Museum this autumn
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Stitched Together
Stitched Together community project