Events and festivals | LGBTQ+

Queer Maritimes

From tours about merpeople to creative workshops on personalised maps, discover some of the LGBTQ+ histories connected to Royal Museums Greenwich's collections

Saturday 8 November and Saturday 15 November 2025 | See below for times
Free
National Maritime Museum
Events and festivals | Black History Month

Book launch: A Whole Heap of Mix Up by Stella Dadzie

Celebrate the release of the award-winning historian's new book

Thursday 30 October 2025 | 6pm-8.30pm
Pay what you can (£0-£10)
Queen's House
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

Auctioning abolition: Slaving vessels and their afterlives in West Africa

Join us for a free talk by Richard Anderson

Tuesday 9 December 2025 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

The piratical seizure of the brig Cyprus

A free online talk by researcher Timothy Stone

Tuesday 24 February 2026 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Talks and tours

Royal Observatory Treasures Tour

Explore some of the Royal Observatory's most treasured objects with a guided tour

Daily tours at 11am and 3pm | Mandarin tour on select Saturdays at 1.30pm and Cantonese tour on select Sundays at 1.30pm
£5 Adults | £3.50 Students | £2.50 Children | Members go free
Royal Observatory
Events and festivals | The ocean

RNLI day at Cutty Sark

Join us on board Cutty Sark for an exciting day of lifesaving demonstrations, activities and talks in collaboration with the RNLI - not to be missed!

Saturday 13 September 2025 | 11am - 4pm
Included with entry to the ship
Cutty Sark
Talks and tours | Salons in the Queen's House

Salons in the Queen's House: Visualising the Invisible in Jacqueline Bishop’s Collage Histories

In this free lunchtime talk art historian Dr. Freya Gowrley will explore the artistic potential of collage for telling colonial histories.

Wednesday 22 October 2025 | 1pm-1.30pm
Free
Queen's House
Talks and tours | Maritime History and Culture Seminars

A matter of 'good usage': towards a new interpretation of the 1797 fleet mutinies at Spithead and the Nore

Join us for a free online talk about the largest mutinies in the history of the Royal Navy

Tuesday 27 January 2026 | 5.15-6.30pm
Free
Online
Events and festivals | Maritime history

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Enjoy 2-for-1 entry to Pirates at the National Maritime Museum and come dressed as a pirate for the chance to win some amazing treasures!

Friday 19 - Sunday 21 September 2025 | 10am-5pm
2-for-1 on all Pirates exhibition tickets | Museum admission free
National Maritime Museum
Events and festivals

Midsummer concert at the Queen's House

An evening of music inspired by the natural world, performed by Canticum Chamber Choir

Thursday 10 July 2025 | Performances at 6.30pm and 8pm
Adult £15, Adult Members £12, Child £7.50, Child Members £6 | Walk-up tickets: Adults £18, Child £9
Queen's House