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Black Tudors and the Sea
A resource pack full of objects, paintings and archival sources plus classroom activities and background information. This pack explores the stories of Black Tudors such as John Blanke, Diego, Jacques Francis and Cattelena of Almondsbury.
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Gallery trails
Download our gallery trails to support discussion and idea development in the National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark. Printed trails are also available to pick up on arrival.
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Cutty Sark learning resources
Explore our learning resources and activities for all ages
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Mission to Mars
This classroom activity is designed to test your students' creative, mathematical and literacy skills through a range of tasks that will get them to think about what it might be like to travel to Mars and then live and work on the red planet.
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Members' Lecture: Pirate Queens
Dr Rebecca Simon delves deeper into the lives of two of the most infamous female pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who terrorised the Caribbean in and around Jamaica
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Members' Lecture: Pirate Commonwealths
Join Dr Richard Blakemore as we delve deeper into 'pirate commonwealths' and how they affected empires, politics and piracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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Discover our Ocean Map
Explore our Ocean Map with a curator in this event for children
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Summer holidays at the National Maritime Museum
Dive into free holiday activities at the National Maritime Museum this summer!
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Members' lecture: Galaxies with Jake Foster
Royal Observatory astronomer Jake Foster explores the Universe on an expansive scale, showcasing and examining the stars, planets, gas and dark matter that populate our cosmos