National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, it has no general admission charge; there are admission charges for most side-gallery temporary exhibitions, usually supplemented by many loaned works from other museums.

For other national maritime museums, see National Maritime Museum (disambiguation).

National Maritime Museum
The museum's main entrance
Location within Royal Borough of Greenwich
Established1937 (1937)
LocationGreenwich
London, SE10
United Kingdom
Coordinates51°28′52″N 0°00′20″W
Collection size2 million+ objects
Visitors2,367,904 (2009)
DirectorPaddy Rogers
Public transit access Cutty Sark
Greenwich
Websitermg.co.uk
Area200 acres (0.81 km2)
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