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National Maritime Museum: Ships and Seas: Christopher Columbus
Learn about Christopher Columbus's reason for sailing west instead of east. Also, discover what he found on his voyages and his return journeys.
Peabody Essex Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Located in Salem, Massachusetts. America's oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799. Maritime arts and history; American decorative arts; early American architecture; Asian export art; Asian, Oceanic, African arts and...
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The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark
Set sail with the Vikings. Tour the Danish Viking Ship Museum site for ships, maritime crafts and learn about ship reconstruction.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Tending Aids to Navigation
Who maintains our maritime infrastructure? Step back to the 1920s and meet some of the men and boats of the U.S. Lighthouse Service while learning about the hundreds of aids to navigation in New York Harbor.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariner's Museum: Women and the Sea
Enter the world of the sea and find out how women have played an active role in maritime affairs throughout history. Read about everything from mythical mermaids to real women in the navy.
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A View on Cities: Sydney: Lighthouse at National Maritime Museum
Lighthouse at National Maritime Museum (Sydney)
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A View on Cities: Amsterdam: Maritime Museum and the 'Amsterdam'
Maritime Museum and the 'Amsterdam'
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National Maritime Museum: Sea and Ships: John and Sebastian Cabot
Information about John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot provided in a question-and-answer format.
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Museum of Underwater Archaeology: The Sloop Industry
Learn about the cost of maintaining a maritime empire in America by considering the wreck of the British sloop Industry, which sank off the coast of Saint Augustine in 1764. The loss of the ship along with her cargo demonstrates that...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Marine History of Yarmouth Nova Scotia
The maritime history of Yarmouth, NovaScotia is profiled. The history of captains and ship owners as well as different vessels and folklore of past times is included.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: The Explorers
Museum website on explorers of the world. Students and teachers can link to information on any of the explorers to find out about their adventure and how they may have changed the world.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Marine Patent Models
View the Smithsonian's collection of patent models that demonstrate marine inventions from the 1770s to the 1950s that attempted to change and improve the challenges Americans encountered working and traveling on the water.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Transatlantic Souvenirs
The Smithsonian's maritime collections contain many objects relating to the steamship Leviathan, the largest American passenger ship of the 1920s and 1930s. View these mementos originally preserved by passengers and crew to remember...
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Birth of the u.s. Navy
A history of the United States Navy, from pre-Revolutionary times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the maritime commerce, wartime influence, and Congressional actions relating to the development of the Navy.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On the Water: Maritime Nation: Shipwrecks
Illustrated accounts of the destruction and loss of two ships sailing to America across the Atlantic illuminate the dangers of nineteenth-century travel and the modes of rescue available at the time. With a range of archival material,...
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Titanic in Nova Scotia
This site is particularly interesting as it focuses on the artifacts taken from the site of the sinking of the Titanic that are now located in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On the Water: Maritime Voices
Listen to the oral histories of four men and one woman who worked in America's shipyards and aboard her cargo ships during World War II to keep American armed forces supplied with machinery and ammunition.
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A View on Cities: Amsterdam: Scheepvaartmuseum
Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum) (Amsterdam)
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Sail Safe
"Get your sailing skills the fun way on our Sail Safe pages." The National Maritime Museum promotes safe sailing with this interactive lesson and game.
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Migration Heritage Centre: Captain Cook's Sextant
See a photo of Captain James Cook's sextant, which resides at the British National Maritime Museum in London. Learn why this object is important for modern research and what it represents in European history.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Pribilof Island Shrew
The Pribilof Island Shrew lives in maritime tundra on St. Paul Island, and almost nothing is known about its biology. Learn more about the Sorex pribilofensis, more commonly known as a Pribilof Island Shrew, in this easy-to-read species...