Online bookings are currently unavailable due to planned site maintenance, but please try again later. Tickets to all our museums are also available on the day from admissions desks. The autumnal ...

This Easter we're playing with mark-making and materials to turn drawing on its head! Come and get stuck in this spring with SEAson of Drawing activities for the whole family, inspired by the Van de ...

In 1789, master’s mate Fletcher Christian led a notorious mutiny on the Bounty, which was under the command of William Bligh. The mutiny on the Bounty is one of the most well known mutinies that ever ...

A letter of marque was a commission authorising privately owned ships (known as privateers) to capture enemy merchant ships. A letter of marque was issued by the High Court of Admiralty. Any captured ...

Online bookings are currently unavailable due to planned site maintenance, but please try again later. Tickets to all our museums are also available on the day from admissions desks. The National ...

How do you know that your watch, clock or phone is telling exactly the right time? At one time, the only way was to look to the roof of the Observatory. Picture the scene, you are looking down from ...

Crew agreements for British-registered merchant ships, crew lists or muster-rolls and official ships' logs are of particular interest to genealogists and people tracing family history, and to anyone ...

People have travelled by sea using ships and boats for centuries. The Egyptians, Greeks and Phoenicians made some of the earliest vessels. For thousands of years, people have wanted to move on the ...

In 1576 Martin Frobisher was the first English explorer to search for the North-West Passage – the seaway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans It took Frobisher five years to raise the funds for ...

The enduring influence of nautical styles in fashion have been long celebrated in British culture. Find out more about its origins and the role of Queen Victoria. As a maritime nation, naval and ...

Ryan Imperio's spellbinding image of our Sun earned him the top prize in Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 ...

Online bookings are currently unavailable due to planned site maintenance, but please try again later. Tickets to all our museums are also available on the day from admissions desks. Back ashore and ...