常设展览
背景
香港海事博物馆是一所富有活力的文化机构，致力保全、收藏及展示能够充分演绎香港及珠江三角洲海事及贸易的故事。博物馆于2005年创立，为一所由香港船东会支持的非牟利注册慈善团体。2005年博物馆于赤柱美利楼开幕，并于2013年迁往中环八号码头，位置优越。每年博物馆吸引约十万人参观，本馆楼高三层，佔地合共四千四百平方米放置了藏品达1,200多件，并设有13个展厅、特别展览厅、资源中心、咖啡馆、礼品店和航海精品廊，优美的维多利亚港景色尽入眼帘。
本馆的特别展览及节目场地、海事文化中心、餐厅及精品廊均吸引世界各地的游客。而本馆亦提供教育及公众项目活动，包括导赏团 （予学校、社会团体、公共及私人团体）及亲子活动。
舱梯
As with all ocean-going vessels, long passages — or companionways —zigzag through the museum. While onboard ship a companionway may link the bridge to nearby staff quarters, in the case of the museum, display galleries are connected to support areas including the library and research offices.
In an imaginative teaming up with leading photographer Basil Pao, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum has commissioned the artist to create a series of stunning visual images that capture different aspects of the ocean, for exhibit along the companionways that link A, B, C and D decks. An important theme of this photographic expose is to remind visitors that the world’s oceans occupy by surface, seven-tenths of the earth.