National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum
The museum's main entrance
National Maritime Museum is located in Royal Borough of Greenwich
National Maritime Museum
Location within Royal Borough of Greenwich
Established1937 (1937)
LocationGreenwich
London, SE10
United Kingdom
Coordinates51°28′52″N 0°00′20″W / 51.481111°N 0.005556°W / 51.481111; -0.005556
Collection size2 million+ objects
Visitors2,367,904 (2009)[1]
DirectorPaddy Rogers
Public transit accessDocklands Light Railway Cutty Sark
National Rail Docklands Light Railway Greenwich
Websitermg.co.uk
Area200 acres (0.81 km2)

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, it has no general admission charge; there are admission charges for most side-gallery temporary exhibitions, usually supplemented by many loaned works from other museums.

  1. ^ "Visits made in 2009 to visitor attractions in membership with ALVA". Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2010.

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