Maritime and Naval Museums: Asia

China

Qingdao (Tsingtau)

(Naval Museum)

India

Nhava

(Marine Museum)

Nhava,
Panvel Taluka,
District Raigad 410206,
Maharastra.

Opening hours: Monday-Sunday 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00.

Indonesia

Jakarta

(Maritime Museum)

Israel

Haifa

National Maritime Museum

198 Allenby Road,
PO Box 44855,
Haifa.

Telephone: +972 (0)4 536622.

Japan

Beppu

Oriana (1959), ex P&O passenger liner.

Kagawa Prefecture

Seto Inland Sea Folk History Museum

1412-2 Tarumi-cho,
Takamatsu-shi,
Kagawa Prefecture.

Telephone: +81 878 81 4707

Kobe

Kobe International Seaport and Harbor Museum

8, Hatoba-cho, Ikuta-ku,
Kobe-shi, Hyogo.

Telephone: +81 78 391 6751

Osezaki, Numazu

Stella Polaris (1927), ex Bergen Line passenger steamer.

Toba

Brazil Maru (1954), ex Mitsui OSK passenger/cargo liner.

Toba Maritime Museum

1-23-11, Toba 1 chome,
Toba-shi,
Mie Prefecture 517.

Telephone: +81 599 25 5141

Tokyo

Kaiwo Maru (1930), a four-masted barque still in active service.
Meiji Maru (1874), a permantly dry docked fullrigged ship, ex lighthouse tender.
Nippon Maru (1930), a four-masted barque.

(Museum of Institute for Fishery Research)

Unyo Maru (1909), three-masted barque.

(Museum of Maritime Science)

3-1 Higashi-Yashio,
Shinagawa-Ku,
Tokyo 135.

Telephone: +81 3 528 1111.

Soya (1938), cargo motor ship.

Wakayama Prefecture

Taiji Whale Museum, Kushimoto

2934-2 Johdo,
Taiji-cho, Higashimuro-gun,
Wakayama Prefecture 649-51.

Telephone: +81 73559 2487

Yokohama

Hikawa Maru (1930), ex Nippon Yusen KK passenger steamer. Yamashita Park.

To be joined by a shoreside company museum.

Yokohama Marine Science Museum

15 Yamashita-cho,
Naka-ku,
Yokohama.

Telephone: +81 045 641 4488

Yokosuka

Mikasa Preservation Society

Imaokacho, Yokosuka
Kanagawa 238.

Mikasa (1900), a pre-Dreadnought battleship permantly set in a concrete bed. The Mikasa was the flagship of Admiral Tojo at the Battle of Tsushima Straits during the Russo-Japanese War.

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??, a famed Russo-Japanese war veteran destroyer. See Nimitz Museum in Texas, US, for a reference.

Portugal

Macau

Museu Maritimo de Macau

Largo do Pagode da Barra 14,
P.O. Box 47,
Macau.

Telephone: +853 559922

WWW-server

Opening hours: Wednesday-Monday 10:00-17:30.

The exhibits include some very professional models and dioramas. The museum has a full size replica of a three-masted lorcha which is used to sail in the harbour.

Taiwan

The Tamkang University Maritime Museum

Taipei.

WWW: http://www.lib.tku.edu.tw/museum/museum.htm

Singapore

Singapore Naval Museum

32, Admiralty Rd West,
Sembawang Camp,
Singapore 759959.

Telephone: +65 7505585
Telefax: +65 7505611

Opening hours: Monday - Saturday, 08:00-17:00.

Turkey

Bodrum

(Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology)

Bodrum/Muglia.

Telephone: +90 6141 1095; +90 6141 2516.

Chanakkale

Nusret (1912), WWI minelayer kept as a museum.

Istambul

(Naval Museum)

Deniz Müzesi,
Besiktas,
Istanbul.

Telephone: +90 212 261 0040
Telefax: +90 212 261 0130
E-mail: navalmuseumturk@superonline.com
WWW: http://abone.superonline.com/~navalmuseumturk/index.htm

Opening hours: Friday-Tuesday 09:00-12:30, 13:30-17:00.

In addition to the Kadirga, a 16th century galley, the museum also exhibits some 20 richly embellished chaiquës.

Bibliography:

Basch, Lucien: A Galley in Istambul: The Kadirga.
Mariner's Mirror Vol. 60, London, 1974. pp 133-134, ill., 1 pl.
Basch, Lucien: The Kadirga revisited. A Preliminary Re-Appraisal.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 65, London, 1979. pp 39-51, ill.
Lehmann, L.Th.: Turkish Imperial State Barges.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 76, London, 1990. p 254.
Paris, Admiral: Souvenirs de marine conservés.
plates 132-133.
Witsen, Nicholaes: XXX Platen van vreemde schepen.
Amsterdam, 1687 [?].

Updated 2003-09-02 by Lars Bruzelius

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