Ships preserved in museums
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The preservation of ships in museums ensures that ancient and historic vessels are preserved for posterity in optimum conditions and are available for academic study and for public education and interest.
Remains of ancient and historic ships and boats can be seen in museums around the world. Where a ship is in a good state of preservation it can sometimes act as a museum in its own right. Many museum ships, such as HMS Victory are popular tourist attractions. Some ships are too fragile to be exposed outdoors or are incomplete and must be preserved indoors. The remains of the Mary Rose for example are kept in a purpose designed building so that conservation treatment can be applied.
Maritime and local museums may also choose to display ships and boats, that are not notable individually, but which illustrate local shipbuilding or sailing traditions.
In some cases, archaeologists have discovered traces of ships and boats where there are no extant physical remains to be preserved, such as Sutton Hoo, where museum displays can show what the vessel would have looked like, although the vessel itself no longer exists.
[edit] List of ships in museums
- Dover boat: remains of bronze age sewn plank boat preserved at the Dover Museum, England
- Nemi ships: Caligula's Roman ships, destroyed by fire in 1944
- Gokstad ship: 9th century Viking ship from a ship burial, preserved at the Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)
- HMS Holland 1: early 20th century submarine preserved at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
- Khufu ship: Ancient Egyptian ship (around 2,500 BC) sealed in the Great pyramid of Giza on display at the Giza pyramid complex
- Mary Rose: early 16th century carrack being conserved by the Mary Rose Trust at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
- Newport ship: 15th Century clinker built vessel currently being conserved in Newport
- Oseberg ship: 9th century Viking ship from a ship burial, preserved at the Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)
- Tune ship: late 9th century or early 10th century Viking ship from a ship burial, preserved at the Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)
- Regalskeppet Vasa: 17th century ship of the line preserved at the Vasa Museum, Sweden
- Uluburun shipwreck: bronze age fragments of ship with cargo at the Bodrun museum, Turkey
