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Details of procedures and any charges for obtaining information via the National Maritime Museum's Freedom of Information Publication Scheme

We are proud to announce that our Patrons Manager, Emma Claire Morgan, was awarded for 'Best Individual Giving Scheme' and 'Best Donor Love'

Ms Denyers' memory will live on at Royal Observatory Greenwich and her legacy will make a lasting difference to the lives of future generations. 

Discover the conservation story of the Armada Portrait's restoration, from the early research to the finishing touches.

Patricia Crimmin was a Naval Historian and a valuable Member of the Museum who loved to visit Cutty Sark.

The Caird Library and Archive has several primary and secondary materials relating to marine artists. One of the highlights of our collection is the illustrated logbooks of Nicholas Pocock (1740-1821).

Find out more about our loans programme, and help us make our collections available to the widest possible audience

Lieutenant Jack Cooper RN had a distinguished career with the Royal Navy and passed on his maritime memories with a generous bequest to National Maritime Museum.

Looking back at nearly two years of strict (but necessary) measures of quarantine, lockdown and other medical regulations, we will come to find that, for an island who deals in trade with other countries, plague is not a new thing. Though COVID-19 is the latest pandemic in a long history of medical challenges, we have plenty of historic experience in dealing with these types of disasters. From the Great Plague to parliamentary acts, we take a look through our collection to explore the practice of quarantine.

Sets out the Museum’s responsibilities in relation to providing information about the collections and giving access to them, in line with the National Maritime Museum Act 1934, the Museum’s Mission Statement, and Corporate Plan.