Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Tours:
Skip the free (and outdated) audioguide and instead ask about the daily tour
(free, 2-3/day).
• Exiting the Queen's House, walk toward the hill, pass through a colonnade, and turn
right. About 300 yards farther on, you'll see a giant ship in a bottle and the...
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National Maritime Museum
Great for anyone interested in the sea, this museum holds everything from a giant working
paddlewheel to the uniform Admiral Horatio Nelson wore when he was killed at Trafalgar
(look for the bullet hole, in the left shoulder). A big glass roof tops three levels of slick,
modern, kid-friendly exhibits about all things seafaring.
The Explorers exhibit covers early expeditions and an ill-fated Arctic trip, complete
with a soundtrack of creaking wooden ships and crashing waves. One room displays
stained-glass windows honoring members of London's Baltic Exchange (an important
shipping consortium) killed in World War I, while the somber Atlantic Worlds hall
thoughtfully describes how the movements of goods, ideas, and enslaved people shaped
the 17th to 19th centuries. Kids like the All Hands and Bridge galleries, where they can
send secret messages by Morse code and operate a miniature dockside crane. Along with
