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Discover life, work and play at sea through the lens of six seafarers and researchers

Following significant investment to the museum, state of the art production equipment has been installed in Neptune Court at the National Maritime Museum.

How did Elizabeth I use gendered symbolism in the Armada Portrait? Dr Kit Heyam explores.

For over 200 years, British shipowners and companies have recruited sailors from the Indian Ocean region, more commonly known as lascars. These seamen have worked, fought and died on board British vessels yet have not always been given the recognition they deserve. The Caird Library and Archive holds phrasebooks which aimed to capture the language spoken by this diverse group of people serving on board European ships.

On display at Cutty Sark is the Long John Silver Collection of figureheads; the largest collection of merchant navy figureheads in the world.

For our latest Caird Library and Archive display case we highlight the lives of lascars serving on board British ships, as well as their often precarious situation in Britain.

Named for the Glaswegian shipowner Sir James Caird, Bt. (1864-1954), the Caird Library and Archive has been facilitating research into maritime endeavour for over eighty years. Today it is the largest maritime reference library in the world.

It's the time of year when love is in the air. Celebrate love with us at Royal Museums Greenwich.

Looking back at nearly two years of strict (but necessary) measures of quarantine, lockdown and other medical regulations, we will come to find that, for an island who deals in trade with other countries, plague is not a new thing. Though COVID-19 is the latest pandemic in a long history of medical challenges, we have plenty of historic experience in dealing with these types of disasters. From the Great Plague to parliamentary acts, we take a look through our collection to explore the practice of quarantine.

Find out how we measure time on the Red Planet, and what to expect in a Martian calendar year