Treasures of Royal Museums Greenwich

Explore the most famous treasures and hidden gems of the Royal Museums Greenwich collection. Covering all four of the Royal Museums Greenwich sites - the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Observatory, the Queen’s House and Cutty Sark - this fully illustrated volume tells stories of the sea, space and the stars. Treasures of Royal Museums Greenwich features some of the most exceptional and surprising objects from the Museum’s vast and varied collections, including the coat worn by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, John Harrison’s revolutionary marine timekeepers and the iconic ‘Armada Portrait’ of Queen Elizabeth I. The selections, made by the Museum’s expert curators, also span polar exploration, the World Wars, the history of empire and enslavement, photographic depictions of coastal life in Britain, navigation and timekeeping and standout drawings from the Admiralty ship plans collection. Some of the most exciting acquisitions of recent years, including artworks by contemporary artists Yinka Shonibare CBE and Alberta Whittle, sit alongside an intriguing globe of the planet Mars, a watch worn during the Titanic disaster and frozen in time and a groundbreaking map of the Moon that was used to help plan the Apollo Moon landings. Adi Yeta is a full-scale drua (canoe) made by contemporary Fijian boat builders, while a portrait of an eighteenth-century naval officer was recently discovered to be a long-lost work of Thomas Gainsborough. This beautifully presented book is the ideal way to discover the treasures of the Royal Museums Greenwich collection.