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⚓RMS Titanic was launched on 31 May 1911.
⚓A launching ceremony celebrates a ship being transferred from land to water for the first time. It's an important naval tradition and a way of blessing the ship.
⚓Explore our collection of bespoke prints: https://bit.ly/3Oe6Kdj
🌕 Did you know that the Moon is moving away from the Earth? Or that it always shows the Earth the same face?
🌕 Find out how the moon was made and other fascinating facts about our celestial neighbour: https://bit.ly/MoonFactsRMG
⭐WIN two day passes to all of our sites and a feature on our social media channels! ⭐
📸We're launching monthly Photography Briefs, to inspire our followers to get creative with their cameras...
💧This month's brief is 'At one with water' inspired by our latest photography exhibition Our Connection to Water, co-produced with and curated by The Collective Makers , that explores our human connection to water.
💧There are no rules, you're free to take the brief wherever you want. Inspiration can strike anywhere! You can use an existing photo or a new one, the key is to explore the theme 'At one with water'.
💧To take part: please post your brief submission photo on social media before 5pm on 8 June, tagging us and include the hashtag in your caption. The winning photographer will be contacted to arrange their prize and share the winning image with us so we can post it across our social channels.
💧Tag any friends or family who you think would like to take part too! We can't wait to see your entries!
💧T&C's apply: This promotion closes on Thursday, 8 June. One winner will be chosen at random. You need to be a UK resident to enter. For full Terms and Conditions see the link in our bio.
📣 Bank Holiday Offer: Kids go free!
📣Calling all young adventurers! Climb aboard Cutty Sark and conquer the ship's famous rigging like a true sailor. On Monday 29 May kids go free with a paying adult.
Book today: https://bit.ly/RigClimbKidsFree
Wire & Sky - Urban Aerial Adventures
✏Come and draw with us! https://bit.ly/DrawnTogetherRMG
✏During the remainder of May and the beginning of June we're hosting some wonderful workshops and events to inspire creativity. We hope to see you there. From amateurs to seasoned artists, everyone is welcome at our Drawn Together events, inspired by our exhibition The : Greenwich, Art and the Sea at the Queen's House.
✏Come, learn and explore a variety of artistic practices with muses from the sea to the stars.
Come and join us at The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre on the 3rd June for our very first comedy night in the stores, guaranteed to be a night full of laughs!!
Book your ticket here: https://bit.ly/3q2sLBJ
Get ready for a night of laughs and learning on this special comedy guided tour of The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
📖New Publication
📖Shop for Fish and Ships: A Nautical Miscellany. Packed full of amazing expert facts about life beyond the shore. When is a boat not a ship? Was Captain Kidd truly a pirate? These quandaries and more are answered in this fun book.
https://bit.ly/3VTclHY
🌊 For Cathryn Spain, every day as a Senior Harbour Master is different. Whether setting speed limits or investigating incidents, Cathryn oversees navigational safety on 95 miles of the River Thames.
🌊 With a career in the Merchant Navy, which included driving hovercrafts and working on cruise and container ships, Cathryn is keen to increase opportunities for young women working in the industry.
🌊 This International Day for Women in Maritime, we shine a light on Cathryn and other pioneering women featured in Making Waves, our interview series that highlights the incredible stories of women at sea.
Read Cathryn's story: https://bit.ly/MakingWavesCathrynSpain
Making Waves is generously supported by the Port of London Authority.
➡Our latest blog considers the history of mental health conditions and their perception in the Royal Navy of the 18th &19th centuries.
Warning: these documents contain outdated, potentially distressing language.
https://bit.ly/MentalWellbeingNavyRMG
🌊Join us next month for ! Celebrate and learn about the deep blue, all for free.
🌊The National Maritime Museum is home to hundreds of years of seafaring history. But our relationship to the sea is changing. Take your chance to dive into the past, present and future of our blue planet.
🌊Live perfomances. Family fun. Expert talks. https://bit.ly/WorldOceansDayRMG2023
VOU Metronomes Steel Orchestra British Antarctic Survey Manta Trust The Collective Makers
🔭Discover what to see in May's night sky, including the dwarf planet Ceres, a meteor shower and a unique galaxy....
🔭https://bit.ly/NightSkyHighlightsMay23
📷Majestic Sombrero Galaxy by Utkarsh Mishra, Michael Petrasko and Muir Evenden
🕰John Harrison, a self-taught clockmaker from Lincolnshire, succeeded in solving one of the 18th century’s greatest scientific problems.
🕰Allowing sailors to find their longitude, his timepiece H4 revolutionised navigation and helped save thousands of lives. Today, H4 and Harrison’s other timekeepers are treasures of the Museum’s collection.
🕰Learn more about his fascinating life and achievements in a new edition of John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude by Jonathan Betts, illustrated with beautiful technical drawings that bring Harrison’s incredible creations to life. https://bit.ly/HarrisonQuestRMG
John and the Quest for Longitude is a fascinating account of one man driven by the need to solve one of the greatest practical problems of his time. Harrison produced his four famous "H" timepieces, helping revolutionise navigation at sea, and saving many thousands of lives. Every purchase supports....
🌊How do you like your seascapes?
🌊Calm and serene, stormy and dramatic, or somewhere in between?
🌊Immerse yourself in these details from paintings in our collection.
1.Henry Pether, The Thames and Greenwich Hospital by Moonlight, c. 1854-65
2. Ludolf Backhuysen, The Merchant Shipping Anchorage off Texel Island with Oudeschild in the Distance, 1660s
3. A Convoy, John Everett, 1918
🧗♀️Whether you love a challenge or just love ships (or both), take the chance to climb the masts of the famous Cutty Sark! https://bit.ly/Rig-Climb
🧗♀️Book now for the Cutty Sark Rig Climb Experience.
👑It’s coronation day!
👑For more than 500 years, Greenwich has been steeped in royal history.
👑To mark the , discover the royal highlights of our portraiture collection, on display at the Queen’s House: https://bit.ly/RoyalPortraitsRMG
👑Will you be visiting this Bank Holiday Weekend?
👑From Queen Elizabeth's tree to the Palace of Placentia the Royal Borough (and Royal Museums Greenwich!) have plenty of royal connections, which you can explore by joining in our coronation celebrations: https://bit.ly/RoyalDayOutRMG
👑Recalling the of George V, Adm. William Kelly wrote: "everybody had brought chocolate... people were hard at it all the time staving off the pangs of hunger". Below is our commemorative chocolate tin...
👑The Kelly family papers are held in the
🤴 Did you know that the previous King Charles, Charles II, made his mark on Greenwich by being responsible for the founding of the Royal Observatory?
🤴Treat yourself to a beautiful print of Greenwich from our collections: https://bit.ly/GreenwichViewPrintRMG
A view of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich posters, canvas prints, framed pictures, postcards & more by John Bowles. Handmade in the UK.
🧁Well, our mouths are watering just looking at this: finger sandwiches, Earl Grey-infused scones, macaroons, brownies, cupcakes, prosecco and teas? Oh my.
🧁Enjoy a picnic set in the grounds of the National Maritime Museum or an afternoon tea at Cutty Sark next weekend as we mark the coronation: https://bit.ly/CoronationCelebrationsRMG
✨The images in this year’s Aurorae category of the exhibition capture the majesty and ephemeral nature of the polar phenomenon.
Filip Hrebenda explains how he captured his category winning image "In the Embrace of a Green Lady" : https://bit.ly/APY14-Aurorae
New In | Coronation collection 👑
Celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III with a special souvenir from our carefully curated collection of books and gifts to mark the historic occasion.
Shop now https://bit.ly/ShopQueensHouseGreenwich
✏️Pencils at the ready: it's time for a 350-year-old drawing lesson (yes, really)
✏️Each Monday, we're sharing a new short film, shining a light on the Van de Veldes drawings held here at Royal Museums Greenwich and exploring what they can reveal about the inner workings of a 17th century artist's studio.
🎭 Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!
🎭 To mark The Bard's special day and the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, we've teamed up with Shakespeare academics, authors and directors to explore the sea in his plays: https://bit.ly/ShakespeareSea
🎭From the destructive storm in The Tempest, to pirates in Hamlet and the depths of the ocean in Richard III, take the plunge and delve into the depths Shakespeare's maritime language via the link in our bio (there can never be too many maritime metaphors)
🎭See Dulwich College edition of the First Folio on display in our Maritime London gallery until September.
Quotes in order from: Twelfth Night, Act 3 Scene 2; Richard III, Act 1 Scene 4; The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 1
🧡 We're proud to be lighting the Queen’s House tonight in celebration of the life and legacy of Stephen Lawrence, 30 years on.
🧡Discover the amazing work Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation do in supporting the next generation: https://stephenlawrenceday.org/
📸 ©Mark Bennett, Ash Event Productions
🌕The European Space Agency’s JUICE spacecraft set off on its 8.5-year journey to Jupiter last week to explore the planet’s icy moons. The mission is hoping to study Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, three of Jupiter’s biggest moons that are thought to be home to oceans of liquid water and possibly even environments suitable for life...
🌕You can find out more about Jupiter’s moons, and the more than 200 others in the Solar System in Moons by Anna Gammon-Ross. This handy introductory guide is part of the Royal Observatory Greenwich Illuminates series, currently available on an amazing 3-for-2 offer online! https://bit.ly/RMGIlluminatesMoons
🧲See the world's greatest space photography, including incredible aurorae, at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Exhibition: https://bit.ly/APY14_Exhibition
📸Image has been animated. Original photo: Misty Green River by Fred Bailey
If you're a Shakespeare lover, this Sunday in Greenwich is for you! Join us as we celebrate the Bard's birthday with FREE:
🔍 curator tours at the Queen's House
✏ Drawing workshop based on the Tempest
📖See an edition of the First Folio
https://bit.ly/ShakespeareRMG
🌊 Balancing shoots for Netflix alongside ocean advocacy projects, Inka Cresswell is a wildlife filmmaker, underwater camera operator and marine biologist who is empowering the next generation to save our oceans.
🌊 Inka is one of the women featured in Making Waves, our interview series that highlights the incredible stories of women connected with the sea.
Read Inka's story: https://bit.ly/MakingWavesInkaCresswell
Making Waves is generously supported by the Port of London Authority. Port of London Authority
📸 © Inka Cresswell
💡By analysing artworks using different types of light, it's possible to reveal details that would otherwise be invisible. See what our conservation teams uncovered when they took a closer look at the drawings collection...
🎨 Norman Wilkinson was a British oil and watercolour painter, printmaker and poster designer.
🎨 Famous for his marine subjects, Wilkinson was important in the development of dazzle camouflage, a technique that involved painting ships with complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours in order to confuse enemy.
🎨 He also represented beautiful sceneries in his paintings such as this view of Greenwich from the river Thames.
🎨 Enjoy a piece of the Museum at home with our incredible collection of prints.
https://bit.ly/NormanWilkinsonRMG
Barges off Greenwich posters, canvas prints, framed pictures, postcards & more by Norman Wilkinson. Handmade in the UK.
🎻Live at the Cutty Sark is out now!
🎻 The album is a treasure chest of songs of the sea, performed by Philharmonia Orchestra together with mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, and led by conductor Oliver Zeffman – all from beneath Cutty Sark!
🎻If you haven’t already, head to Apple Music to enjoy this visual album, created as part of the Music X Museums immersive concert series presented by Viking which took place in some of the London’s most iconic institutions: https://bit.ly/LiveAtTheCuttySark
🎻Live at the Cutty Sark was directed by Andy Staples, produced by Brett Cox, and mastered by Cicely Balston.
⌚This watch in our collection belonged to 27 year old Robert Douglas Norman. The rusted hands stopped as soon as Norman entered the water; registering seven minutes past three. It was later recovered from his body.
⌚At 23.40 on 14 April, 1912, RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank, resulting in the loss of 1,523 lives.
⌚Did you know that there's a small Titanic Memorial Garden in the grounds of the National Maritime Museum? It was opened in 1995, filled with plants associated with remembrance: Rosemary, Purple Sage, Irish Golden Yew and Peace Roses.
🗺In a recent blog we looked at cartographer John Rocque's An Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, ‘the outstanding plan of the capital in the eighteenth century’.
🗺Explore: https://bit.ly/JohnRocquesMaps
🚀Launching tomorrow: the catchily-named JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission! JUICE aims to answer questions including:
🛰️ Could there be life on Jupiter’s icy moons?
🛰️ How habitable are they?
🛰️ How did Jupiter form?
Dr Affelia Wibisono tells you all you need to know: https://bit.ly/ExploringJupiter
📢 Calling all drawing lovers! Join us behind the scenes to see some of our rarely displayed drawings and learn how we care for these important works at our next Delve Deeper tour, part of Drawn Together, our season of drawing-related activities.
Hosted by artist Tania Kovats and paper conservator Emmanuelle Largeteau. Book:
Book here: https://bit.ly/DelveDeeperRMG
🎨Pencils, paper, brushes and ink: artist materials haven't really changed much over the past 350 years. Or have they?
🎨Each Monday, we're sharing a new short film, shining a light on the Van de Veldes drawings held here at Royal Museums Greenwich and exploring what they can reveal about the inner workings of a 17th century artist's studio.
🎨Visit The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea for free at the Queen's House https://bit.ly/VanDeVeldesGreenwich
🍫Happy Easter!
🍫Hopefully ages until you reach your great aunt's ancient chocolate coins at the bottom of the bowl. We've got some even older though!
🍫The label on this chocolate in our collection reads “CHOCOLATE FROM THE ARCTIC. THIS CHOCOLATE WAS BOUGHT HOME BY THE S.S. NI**OD, HAVING BEEN IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS SINCE 1900. IT WAS LEFT THERE BY CAPTAIN SCOTT OF THE ‘DISCOVERY’”
🍫Find out more about Ni**od, Discovery and the history of Antarctic exploration:
https://bit.ly/AntarcticExpl
🌳New Collection!
🌳Shop gifts celebrating the wildlife and greenery of Greenwich Park. We have commissioned lino cut artist Giuliana Lazzerini to create this exclusive design which has then been carefully adapted to feature a range of products.
Shop now https://bit.ly/3nLTUbj
Be inspired by house and garden. Free UK delivery over £50! Every purchase supports the work of Royal Museums Greenwich.
🌘Andrea Vanoni's incredible 32-panel mosaic of the crescent Moon. Moon: Big Mosaic, was runner-up in last year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
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