The Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館, ''Fune-no-kagakukan'') is a

marine science Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, Wind wave, waves, and geophysical flu ...

museum located in Higashiyashio,

Shinagawa, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies. , the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total a ...

Odaiba today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built in this area for defensive purposes in the 1850s. Reclaimed land offshore Shinagawa was dramatically expanded durin ...

island,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. Exhibits include Japanese boats, items related to the navy, shipping industry, fishing, sailing, maritime recreation, ship design and building, and the environment of the seas and oceans around Japan. The museum building itself is modelled after the British ocean liner ''

Queen Elizabeth 2 ''Queen Elizabeth 2'' (''QE2'') is a retired British ocean liner converted into a floating hotel. Originally built for the Cunard Line, the ship, named as the second ship named ''Queen Elizabeth'', was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic ...

''. Outside the museum building are a number of exhibits including a large screw propeller, Ayumi I-Go Ocean Floor House, Tankai Submarine and PC-18 submersible, a wooden fishing boat from Kujūkuri, Osesaki lighthouse and

Anorisaki Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the top of Shima Peninsula in the city of Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan. History The Anorisaki Lighthouse was designed and constructed by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton and was first lit on April 1, 1873. It is ...

. Since May 1979 the icebreaker Sōya has been moored alongside the museum open to the public.Museum of Maritime Science webpag
Outdoor Exhibits - Soya former Antarctica Observation Ship
Retrieved September 4, 2015

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File:RedSealShip.JPG, Painting of a

Red Seal Ship were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with red-sealed letters patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century. Between 1600 and 1635, more than 350 Japanese ships wen ...

File:Tankai.jpg, Submarine ''Tankai''. File:PC-18 １.jpg, Deep sea submarine ''PC-18''. File:Youtei-maru.jpg, Seikan Yotei Maru File:So-ya.jpg, Icebreaker ''Sōya'' File:ナヒーモフ.jpg, Cannon from the Russian cruiser ''Admiral Nakhimov''. File:PLH-22_Model.jpg, Model of Mizuho-class patrol vessel ''Yashima'' (PLH-22) of the Japan Coast Guard.

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Museum website
Shinagawa Odaiba Museums in Tokyo Science museums in Japan Maritime museums in Japan Museums established in 1974 1974 establishments in Japan {{Japan-museum-stub

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