List of museum ships


This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like. This list does not include submarines; see List of submarine museums for those. This includes ships currently or formerly serving as museums or preserved at museums. This includes ships on static display or floating and perhaps sometimes used for excursions. It includes only genuine historic ships; replica ships, some associated with museums, are listed separately in the List of ship replicas.
Some historic ships actively used for excursions, and not previously or currently associated with museums, are included in the list of classic vessels. For shipwrecks that may be visited by diving, including some perhaps associated with museums, see List of shipwrecks.

Asia

China

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
Dabie ShanChinaShandongQingdao, ChinaUnited States

India

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
IndiaMaharashtraMumbai

Japan

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
Toba Brazil Maru/''Hai Shang Cheng Shi''JapanMie PrefectureToba

Kuwait

The Kuwaiti Maritime Museum in Salmiya, Kuwait, holds replicas of a number of different types of dhows. The Al-Hashemi-II, in Kuwait City, Kuwait, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest wooden dhow ever built; it has never been floated and is used for events. These do not seem to qualify as historic ships preserved in museums so they are not listed here.

Malaysia

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
KD RahmatMalaysiaPerakLumutMalaysia

South Korea

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
ROKS JeonbukSouth KoreaGangwonGangneungUnited States

Oceania

Australia, New Zealand, part of Indonesia and even part of the United States are included in the continent of Oceania, broadly defined. There are no known museum ships in the Oceania part of Indonesia. See List of museum ships in the United States subsection of this "List of museum ships" for the few in Hawaii.

Australia

Note there are more in, though some may be replicas.
;Former
ShipImagePreservation locationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
BaragoolaSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAustralia

New Zealand

;Former
ShipImagePreservation locationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
HMNZS KouraPaeroa, Waikato, New Zealand|1912

South America

Chile

;Former
ShipImageYear launchedOriginTypeMuseum or locationFate
RAM Poderosocoord|-36.71346|-73.11008|name=RAM Poderoso

North America

Includes examples in Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States.

Europe

Technically a few ships on the Istanbul side of the Bosporus and Dardanelles are in Europe, but all of Turkey's museum ships are presented together in the Asia section of this "List of museum ships".

Denmark

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
Kong Frederik IXDenmarkCopenhagen, DenmarkRoskilde, Denmark

France

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
FranceNouvelle-AquitaineBordeauxFrance

Germany

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
Kranich P6083GermanyLower SaxonyBremerhaven

Italy

;Former
ShipImageYearTypeLocationNotesFate
Nemi ships1st century ADBargesLake NemiCaligula's Roman shipsDestroyed by fire in 1944

Poland

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
ORP BurzaPolandPomeranian VoivodeshipGdynia, PolandFrance

Russia

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
TverSoviet UnionRepublic of TatarstanKazan, Soviet UnionRussian Empire

United Kingdom

;Former
ShipImageCountry of preservationRegion of preservationCity of preservationFromYear launchedTypeFateRemarks
United KingdomEnglandBirkenhead, United Kingdomcenter|dts|1929