List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these
maritime museum
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the militar ...
s have
museum ship
A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, mostly for the small num ...
s in their collections. Member museums of the
Council of American Maritime Museums The Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) was established in 1974 to be a network for professionals working in North American maritime museums
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of obje ...
(CAMM) are indicated in the last column.
Museum ships not affiliated with a museum appear on a separate
list of museum ships
This list of museum ships is a comprehensive, sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. Replica ships are listed separately in the article on ship replicas. Ships that are not museum ships, but are still actively used ...
.
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See also
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U.S. Navy museums
References
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* {{cite book
, last = Stanford
, first = Joseph
, title = Sea History's Guide to American and Canadian Maritime Museums
, publisher =
National Maritime Historical Society
, year = 1990
, location =
Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Croton-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 8,327 at the 2020 United States census over 8,070 at the 2010 census. It is located in the town of Cortlandt as part of New York City's northern su ...
, isbn = 0-930248-03-1
*Maritime