Skip to main content
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Planetarium shows
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
Royal Observatory
Talks and tours
Annie Maunder: life, work, legacy
A panel discussion led by curator of the Royal Observatory Dr. Louise Devoy celebrating pioneering solar astronomer and astrophotographer Annie Maunder
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
Pirates
Explore the myth, discover the truth: Pirates at the National Maritime Museum is now open
Queen's House
Talks and tours
Salons in the Queen's House
See the Queen’s House and its collections in a new light with this series of free lunchtime talks exploring art, architecture, history and our contemporary culture
Stories
Back
Stories
Art at the Queen's House
Our Ocean, Our Planet
Guide to the night sky
Museum blog
The pirate hunter's cup
What does a carved coconut shell have to do with one of the most deadly pirates in history? Dr Robert Blyth follows the story of Bartholomew Roberts, and the 'forgotten pirate hunter' Captain Chaloner Ogle
The art of piracy: imagining the world of Zheng Yi Sao
A series of illustrations by Livia Giorgina Carpineto brings the world of notorious pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao to life
Night Sky Highlights - April 2025
Discover what to see in the night sky this April, from the Lyrid meteor shower to bright inner planets, and more.
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Become a member
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to All Results
Explore our collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
Filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
Show all
3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Exploring the Arctic
Globes
Globes and globe gores
Herschel family
Meteorological instruments
Optical equipment
Popular Astronomy
Sundials
Telescopes
Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
Telescopes Online Gallery
The Herschels as experimenters
The Herschels as instrument makers
The many faces of the telescope
Apply Filter
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Achromatic telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, galilean
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting: telescope, achromatic
Galilean telescope
Non-achromatic telescope
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic ?)
Pocket telescope
Polygonal telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope base of case
Portable telescope cap
Portable telescope eyepiece cap
Portable telescope eye piece cap
Portable telescope eye piece cover
Portable telescope lid of case
Portable telescope objective glass cap
Portable telescope objective glass cover
Portable telescope objective lens cap
Portable telescope objective lens cover
Telescope
telescope
Top of Eyepiece cap
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
bone
boxwood
brass
enamelled brass
gilt
glass
horn
iron
ivory
japanned paperboard
lacquered and guilded paperboard
leather
leather (case)
lignum vitae
metal
metal: brass
organic: leather
paper
papier mâché
pasteboard
pigskin
rayskin (shagreen)
silver
tortoiseshell
vellum
whipcord
wood
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Display - QH
Display - ROG
Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery
Not on display
Apply Filter
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Adams, Dudley
Adams, George
Bate, Robert
Berge, Matthew
Christian Mur & Johann Sterr
Cock, Christopher
Cunigham, Jacob
Dollond & Aitchison
Dollond, Peter
Gilbert & Sons
Lewis, William
Longland, William
Marshall, John
Ramsden, Jesse
Rheita, Antonio Maria Schyrle de
Sayde
Solomons
Sterrop, George
Troughton & Simms
Unknown
West, Francis
Willdey, George
Wood, Edward G.
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
England
France
Freising
Germany or Netherlands
Italy
Italy or England
Japan
London
Paris
probably French
Unknown
Venice
Apply Filter
Exhibition
Select…
Exhibition
Exhibition
Time and Longitude
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Airy, George Biddell
Bernard, J.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Keppel, Augustus
Pellew, Edward
Tchichagoff
Whitson, A
Apply Filter
Century
Select…
Century
Century
17th
18th
19th
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1640
1661
1670
1674
1680
1688
1690
1700
1710
1720
1730
1740
1750
1760
1770
1780
1790
1800
1801
1820
1830
1850
1880
Date To
Select...
1660
1661
1680
1690
1692
1693
1700
1702
1710
1720
1730
1740
1750
1752
1760
1770
1782
1790
1792
1800
1801
1802
1822
1832
1852
1870
1882
1900
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
Portable telescope
Clear all
showing 61 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope objective lens cap
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope cap
Portable telescope
Portable telescope objective lens cap
Top of Eyepiece cap
Telescope (Portable telescope)
Portable telescope lid of case
Portable telescope eyepiece cap
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope objective glass cap
Pocket telescope
Portable telescope
First
Prev
Current page
1
Page
2
Page
3
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back To Top