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Many national, historical, scientific and technology museums have a maritime section. These are not separately listed on the web. The very best starting point - it is superb - is at http://www.bb62museum.org/wrldnmus.html. Here you'll find the Sea Classics magazine annual listing of maritime museums round the world compiled by Joseph Poutre. It has websites, addresses, opening hours and the briefest guide to the main attractions. You can use the site to access such excellent pages as Britain's National Maritime Museum, http://www.nmm.ac.uk, as well as most of the other great maritime museums in the world. The best museum pages usually have good links into the worlds of the sea and maritime history. One for China Coast historians is http://www.pem.org/homepage/ which will take you to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. Home of one of the world's finest collections of China Trade materials. |
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Another good starting point for dedicated maritime museums is http://www.maritimemuseums.net/ this is Robert Smith's guide to the world's maritime museums. It is very good on North America, not bad on Europe, but is patchy to poor for Asia with the exception of Japan. |
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A good site, but only for accessing its member museums is the International Congress of Maritime Museums, http://www.icmmonline.org |
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You can also try http://www.seamuse.go.kr/en/, a Korean based web page with some English. |
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Although there are regional maritime museums or historic museum vessels in India, Thailand and Vietnam, they have no websites. |
