National Museum of the Royal Navy

The National Museum of the Royal Navy holds the most comprehensive collection of Royal Navy heritage in the world and the largest collection of historic ships in Europe. It cares for a collection of over 2.5 million items which tell the epic story of the Royal Navy from its origins in 625 AD to today. These collections hold a breadth of material much which is unique to the Navy – figureheads, flags, aircraft, art, documentary archives, photographs, archaeological material and technology.