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; 87 years ago (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.