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 milita ...
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 numb ...
s in their collections. Member museums of the
Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) are indicated in the last column.
Museum ships not affiliated with a museum appear on a separate
list of museum ships.
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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 The National Maritime Historical Society (NMHS) is a non-profit organization in America devoted to historical ship preservation and maritime education.
The society's mission is to educate Americans—and especially its youth—about maritime accomp ...
, 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 subur ...
, isbn = 0-930248-03-1
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