Collections - National Maritime Museum
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Charts and maps
The National Maritime Museum collections contain more than 100,000 sea charts and maps dating from the medieval period to the present day.
They document the results of exploration and discovery and show how techniques of navigation and surveying developed. Many were owned by naval officers and politicians and were used to plan and record the events which have become maritime history. The collections are not exclusively...