National Maritime Museum
A museum of the sea in Greenwich, part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site alongside the Royal Observatory, the Queen's House and the Cutty Sark. Its galleries cover centuries of British seafaring, navigation and exploration.
- Where
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 51.4811, -0.0056
Get the National Maritime Museum stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at National Maritime Museum. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your England volume with your photos and a note.
Near National Maritime Museum
Cutty Sark 0.3 km
One of the last and fastest of the tea clippers, built at Dumbarton in Scotland in 1869, now raised in a dry dock in Greenwich. Her name comes from the witch in Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter, and the witch herself is her figurehead.
Royal Observatory Greenwich 0.5 km
An observatory on the hill in Greenwich Park, looking down over the Thames. The Prime Meridian passes through it, giving the world Greenwich Mean Time, and a line in the courtyard lets you stand with one foot in each hemisphere.
Tower Bridge 5.5 km
A Victorian bridge over the Thames, built between 1886 and 1894 to a design by Horace Jones, with two Gothic towers and a road deck that still lifts in halves to let tall ships through. It stands beside the Tower of London, from which it takes its name.
Tower of London 5.7 km
A Norman fortress on the north bank of the Thames, founded in 1066 after the Conquest. Its White Tower was raised by William the Conqueror in 1078, and the walls around it have served as royal palace, prison and treasury, and still keep the Crown Jewels.
HMS Belfast 6.0 km
A Royal Navy light cruiser launched on Saint Patrick's Day 1938 and commissioned just before the Second World War, now moored for good on the Thames near Tower Bridge. Run by the Imperial War Museum, it can be explored from the bridge down to the engine rooms.
The Shard 6.2 km
A 95-storey glass pyramid by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, standing 309.6 metres over London Bridge station in Southwark. It is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and its upper floors look out across the whole city.
Borough Market 6.5 km
One of London's largest and oldest food markets, by London Bridge in Southwark, with a market on the site since at least the 12th century. Under its 1850s iron roof the stalls sell cheese, bread, produce and street food from around the world.
Shakespeare's Globe 7.0 km
A reconstruction of the Elizabethan playhouse of 1599 for which Shakespeare wrote his plays, built near the original site on the South Bank and completed in 1997. Like the first, it is round, timber framed and open to the sky, with a yard where the audience stands.
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Questions
Where is National Maritime Museum?
National Maritime Museum is in London, England, United Kingdom. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Cutty Sark (0.3 km), Royal Observatory Greenwich (0.5 km), Tower Bridge (5.5 km).
How do I get the National Maritime Museum stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at National Maritime Museum and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your England volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to National Maritime Museum before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your England volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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