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Join us behind the scenes at Cutty Sark. Today we catch up with Visitor Assistant Emma.

Dennis Hayler has been busy working on our recently refreshed Voyagers Gallery. This blog looks at some vital objects in the museum, which are not meant to be seen.

In the nine years covered by his diary Samuel Pepys saw nearly 350 performances. But what did he think of the Great Bard? Guest blogger Alex Marshall finds out.

Storing over 1,000 flags of all shapes and sizes is no easy job. Nora Meller and Sarah Kmosena take us through one nifty soultion, custom built for oversize textiles.

Library Assistant Jean Lindsey has been looking through our amazing journal collection. From planets to paddleboats you're bound to find something of interest.

Our paintings conservator Sarah Maisey talks us through the complex process of conserving a new painting for the Queen's House displays.

In a career at sea lasting 50 years, Cutty Sark faced many dangers. The closest she came to being wrecked was in May 1916 off South Africa.

Richard Woodget was Cutty Sark's most successful captain, making several record-breaking voyages from Australia to England with wool cargoes Based on his logs, this is how he might have described some of the conditions the ship encountered.

Emily from our photostudio has been looking at the ongoing work to digitize our amazing collection of ship plans.

At the National Maritime Museum we continue to catalogue and digitise our collections and we regularly review our online collections to keep them up-to-date with our progress.