Florida State University
Research in Underwater Archaeology

The North Carolina Maritime Museum

The North Carolina Maritime Museum is a division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Its mission is to preserve and interpret the maritime history of North Carolina through educational, boat building, and the collection of artifacts, specimens, and documents.

The Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

The Vasa is possiblly the most famous 17th century shipwreck ever. In 1628 this Swedish royal warship and heeled over and sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor. She was discovered in 1956 and recovered in one of the earliest and most extensive u nderwater archaeological projects ever. This page presents an overview of the museum, including operation hours, information on tours, admissions, and film shows.

The Life-Saving Museum, Virginia Beach, U.S.A.

The Life-Saving Museum maintains a homepage and a virtual scrapbook page. It is a museum housed in a Coast Guard station with a long history of shipwreck rescues. Their page provides information on current shipwreck projects, special exhibits and programs, visitor information, educational programs, and their research library.

The Maritime & Yachting Museum of the Treasure Coast, located in Stuart, Florida (Martin County) U.S.A.

The Maritime & Yachting Museum is dedicated to preservation of significant and irreplaceable boats, the maritime history of the Treasure Coast and Florida, and to providing education programs including work at the museum's boat shop. Visit http://www.mymflorida.org for more information.

Kalmar County Museum, Sweden

This museum houses the main exhibet on the Kronan, the famed Swedish warship (twice as big as the Vasa) that was sunk in battle off the coast of Oland in 1676. This page gives general information and visiting hours in English, German, and Swedish.

National Maritime Museum

The web site will reflect the current exhibitions and displays and other activities. It will also contain the latest information on the remarkable changes currently underway at the Museum in time for the Millennium, which begins officially for the world on the Prime Meridian at the Old Royal Observatory. The site will also cover educational programmes for children, adults and schools, the history of the buildings, the unrivalled maritime collections and the full range of the Museum's research and commercial services. Press releases and media statements will also be available, the moment they are released.

Maritime and naval musems in Britain and Ireland

This is a hypertext index page, with links to the museums list, either as one large 111 KByte 3280-line flat file or divided into 10 smaller files of geographically separate regions of the British archipelago.

Royal Naval Museum

Located in Portsmouth, England, this museum charts British maritime history, focusing on the people, ships, and naval history from medieval times to the Persian Gulf War. Portsmouth also houses the Mary Rose Museum and two other historic ships.

Mary Rose Virtual Museum

The Mary Rose was the favorite battleship of King Henry VIII. It was built in 1509 and sank while sailing off to engage the French in 1545. Its hull was raised in 1982 as the culmination of one of the most famous underwater archaeological projects ever. The Mary Rose Museum is located in Portsmouth, England, and this website give visitor and educational information as well as providing a virtual tour of the museum.

The Florida Museum of Natural History

The Florida Museum of Natural History is located in Gainesville, Florida and is associated with the University of Florida. They have one of the largest comparitive collections of faunal remains in the world. Their anthropology department focuses on archaeology of Florida and the Southeast. The Museum has sponsored the underwater excavations at the Aucilla River for over a decade. A new exhibet is the Hall of Fossils which displays artifacts and fossils from the Aucilla River.

The Polish Maritime Museum

The Polish Maritime Museum is located in Gdansk. It was founded in 1960 and is the largest museum in the country celebrating the Polish maritime tradition and the evolution of present day maritime technology, economy, and culture. The museum does have an underwater archaeology department, research vessel, and conservation laboratory, and features exhibets of artifacts such as those recovered from a 15th century shipwreck in Gdansk Bay. They also publish papers on maritime history, artifact catalogues, and other information.

The Museum of History of Shipping, Schiffahrtsmuseum Rostock

The Museum of the History of Shipping--or Schiffahrtsmuseum Rostock is located in Rostock, Germany. The exhibets, located in a 19th century house and merchant ship, feature the history of shipping and shipbuilding in the Baltic region. The museum also hosts the Department of Ship Archaeology, which conducts archaeology on shipwreck and maritime sites along the German Baltic coastal region.

Rosgilde Museum

Denmark's Major Culture-Historical Museum has a webpage in Danish and English. The page provides details on exhibits, departments, events, and other information.

Maritime Museums around the World

This site lists Naval and Maritime museums catagorized by continent, and provides links to other museum resources. This site is part of the Maritime History Virtual Archives.

Estonian maritime museum

The Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn is dedicated to the history of shipping and fishing in Estonia. The Museum owns two ships, an icebreaker and a submarine, and operates an underwater archaeology program to locate and document the mostly untouched wrecks along the Estonian coast.

Marine Museum at Fall River, Mass.

This museum has over 150 scale models, 30,000 photographs, and many unique marine related items on display. This includes the world's largest Titanic exhibet and artifacts from Fall River's 19th century steamboating days.

Navy Museum at Brest, France

The Navy Museum is an establishment of the Paris Navy museum. The museum is dedicated to French naval history, and holds an extensive collection of ship models, ship carvings, navigational instruments, and other maritime artifacts.

Mariner's Museum

The Mariner's Museum was founded in 1930 and has grown to include an international collection of figureheads, ship models, paintings, and maritime artifacts. It also houses a Research Library and Archives, Museum Shop, and a 550 acre park and lake.

Western Australian Maritime Museum

This museum is a branch of the Western Australian Museum and houses an internationally important collection of shipwreck relics as well as the largest museum collection of Australian boats (in Boat shed, Victoria Quay, Fremantle harbour). A major feature of the Museum is the reconstructed hull of the ship Batavia, lost en route from the Netherlands to the East Indies in 1629. Other exhibits include material recovered from Australia's oldest shipwreck and a display on Aborigines and the sea.

Mystic Seaport

Mystic Seaport is an outdoor maritime museum that tells the stories of America and the sea. Located on a 40 acre waterfront site in the town of Mystic, Connecticut, the Museum exhibits historic tall ships and small boats, a New England coastal village and extensive collections of art, shipmodels and artifacts. The Museum also offers hands-on activities for children and adults, crafts demonstrations, educational programs and a variety of special events.

Curacao Maritime Museum

Robert H. Smith's Master Index to World Wide Maritime Museum Internet Resources

A very comprehensive alphabetical listing of www links to maritime museums, lighthouses, historic ships and replicas, and other maritime resources.

Kendall Whaling Museum

The Kendall Whaling Museum is located in Sharon, Massachusetts. Their webpage contains detailed information on the local whaling industry from colonial through modern times, and includes a seperate page devoted to African-American whalers. This page also contains information on the museum's gift shop, exhibit and event schedule, library, and educational resources.

Malacca's Maritime Archaeology Museum (MAM)

Malacca's Maritime Archaeology Museum (MAM) is a non-profit organization of museum and professional museum personnel established to advance the interests of maritime archaeology and museum management. MAM consists of different artifacts from shipwrecks "Royal Nanhai", "Xuande", "Longquan", "Turiang" and "Nanyang". Beside these artifacts, there are exhibits of 500 year old history of the Malacca Sultanate Period (1400-1511), Portuguese Occupation (1511-1641) and Dutch Occupation (1641-1796). This page contains details on the museum, collections, shipwrecks, and membership.