Entries from National Maritime Museum collections blog tagged with 'Exhibition'
Swanning About on the Thames!
July is not a popular month with swans on the river Thames! Every year in the third week, men take to the river in traditional wooden skiffs, dressed in colourful garb and feather-adorned caps, to track down and pluck from...
Waterline Exhibition - Entertainment
Many passengers love to be entertained on board their ship, and with excursions at ports of call. A Tunisian tour guide posing with his official P & O sign, Bizerte, Tunisia (P90849) In the Exhibition there is a picture of...
Waterline Exhibition - Passengers
For a few years now each summer I have been a passenger, with friends, on various ferries and cruise ships in the Baltic, Mediterranean or Aegean Seas and we have had a fascinating time. That satisfies the lure of the...
Waterline Exhibition - Cargo and Passengers
I enjoyed seeing the Waterline pictures of passengers on various ships over the years, including Kungsholm, Gripsholm and Oriana for example, and in various ports. When I worked as a Purserette on Union-Castle Line mailships I particularly enjoyed meeting many...
Taking Sights - Waterline exhibition and publication
Four P & O cadets of the 'Viceroy of India' on the starboard side of the Bridge Deck with their sextants (P85348) Deck Officers of the Viceroy of India were pictured in 1930 with ship funnels in the background, taking...
Waterline Exhibition
I do like paper streamers - the little round coils of thin coloured paper that used to be thrown to and from passenger ships as they left port. The first picture I saw in the Waterline Exhibition was just such...
The National Maritime Museum Waterline exhibition and publication
Destinations Near and Far is another chapter to enjoy, with 'Southampton to South Africa with the Lavender Hull Mob' being very dear to my heart. Wearing my new Union-Castle Line Purserette uniform and little tricorne hat for the first time,...
Welcome to guest blogger Ann Haynes
I'd like to introduce you all to Ann Haynes, a one-time Purserette with Union-Castle Line. She has travelled the world on the cruise ships and has a great wealth of stories about life aboard ship. To link in with the...
Waterline Exhibition
The National Maritime Museum will shortly be opening a brand new exhibition which celebrates the magic of cruising. On display will be the delightful Waterline collection showing all the colour and style of cruise ship holidays from the mid 20th...
Tall Ships - An Exhibition of Photographs by Alan Villiers
The National Maritime Museum has recently opened a brand new photographic exhibition displaying some of the work of Alan Villiers, but it was while I was researching the 33 images used for the Villiers exhibition, I realised how little I...
'New Visions' of our collection: November
Map of North America by Herman Moll, circa 1712 (DUF292:2/2) One of the really special things about working in a historical museum, like NMM, is the way that collections can focus your attention in different ways. We have so...
Our seaside snapshots
We've now opened Beside the Seaside, snapshots of British coastal life, at the Museum. It is based around the British interest in the seaside and is recorded by pictures dating from 1880-1950. The pictures reveal insights of life at the...
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