Articles of category "Maritime museum"

The National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory and the Queen's House offer a wide range of exhibitions, events and activities. Here you can assist at one of the most spectacular recent events, having ralation to the Royal Observatory of the Greenwich Maritime Museum. 2 June 2005 saw the first results from the Millennium Simulation - the largest and most realistic simulation of cosmic structure ever developed, tracking how the first black holes formed and how today's universe came into being.

Today the Greenwich Museum maritime collection has the most important holdings in the world on the history of Britain at sea, including maritime art (both British and 17th-century Dutch), cartography, manuscripts including official public records, ship models and plans, scientific and navigational instruments, time-keeping and astronomy, based at the Observatory, and in many other categories.