The Maritime Museum is in Greenwich (weirdly pronounced “grenich”) and was originally opened in 1937. The library and archive opened at the same time in order to store the materials. The library is mostly used for naval research, usually when people ask about their ancestry. A lot of people from the UK have ancestors from the military, so this is really helpful for them.
There are 4 main collections at the Maritime Museum library:
– Manuscripts and original documents
– Printed material
– Atlases, maps, and charts
– Electronic resources
The collections occupy about 12 kilometers (or 7.5 miles) of space. Some of the artifacts we got to see included a map of the world created by Ptolemy in the year 1482 and the Certificate of Competency for the captain of the Titanic. Here is the link to their website! Lots of cool stuff!
British Studies 2019 