The National Maritime Museum, in London, is the largest maritime museum in the United Kingdom and since 1997 it has also been included by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

The museum, formally opened by King George v in 1937, already existed since 1934 when it was created thanks to the National Maritime Act. The National Maritime Museum houses one of the most important collections of finds, maritime documentation, cartography, modeling, scientific instrumentation. .

There are also masterpieces of maritime art on display, especially from the English and Dutch schools.

Here are the portraits of the assets belonging to the famous admiral Horatio Nelson and to Captain James Cook.

The collection of art and portraiture, in value and size, is second only to that of the National Portrait Gallery.

The National Maritime Museum, together with the Greenwich Observatory, the Queen's House and the Cutty Sark, is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich association founded by Queen Elizabeth II herself.

Inside the museum there is also the largest library of volumes of maritime history: 100,000 books, 20,000 brochures, 20,000 bound periodicals of which 200 current titles and 8,000 books dated from 1474 to 1850.

Often the spaces also organize exhibitions and events aimed at raising the community's awareness of navigation and the sea, seen as a resource to be respected.