A maritime museum is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use of the sea.
USS Wisconsin is one of four Iowa class battleships opened to the public as a museum (berthed at Nauticus in Norfolk, VA)
Maritime Museum in Szczecin, Poland
A maritime museum located in the village of Bolungarvík, Vestfirðir, Iceland showing a double 19th century fishing base, a salt hut, a fish drying area, a drying hut and a typical fishing boat of the time.
YM Museum of Marine Exploration Kaohsiung in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, mostly for the small number of museum ships that are still operational and thus capable of regular movement.
The Russian Aurora, one of the few protected cruisers to be preserved, is one of the world's most visited vessels
Former crew members of USS Missouri pose for photos after the Anniversary of the End of World War II ceremony in 2003.
The 17th-century warship Vasa on display in the Vasa Museum
HMS Victory: the only ship of the line that is preserved.
