| LC control no. | n 80126325 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
| Variant(s) | NMM (National Maritime Museum) Great Britain. National Maritime Museum Greenwich (London, England). National Maritime Museum Greenwich, Eng. National Maritime Museum Royal Museums Greenwich. National Maritime Museum Eikoku Gurinitchi Kokuritsu Kaiji Hakubutsukan |
| See also | Predecessor: Royal Naval Museum (Great Britain) |
| Beginning date | 1934 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Located | Greenwich (London, England) |
| Field of activity | Navigation--History Naval history |
| Found in | Its Royal yachts, 1953. Eikoku ni atta Inò„ Tadataka no Nihon zenzu, c1995: t.p. (in subtitle: Eikoku Gurinitchi Kokuritsu Kaiji Hakubutsukan) National Archives website, 6 June 2013: under National Maritime Museum, Royal Naval Museum Greenwich (Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich; the museum was created in 1873 when the Royal Naval College was established at Greenwich in the buildings of the Greenwich Hospital; the collections of this museum were transferred to the National Maritime Museum under the 1934 National Maritime Museum Act) Royal Museums Greenwich website, 6 June 2013: under Library Research guides (National Maritime Museum; in 1927, members of the Society for Nautical Research made proposals for a national maritime museum to occupy the buildings of the Royal Hospital School at Greenwich; National Naval and Nautical Museum Trust first met on 30 Nov. 1927; change in title to the 'National Maritime Museum' Trust, in 1931; on 25 July 1934 the National Maritime Museum Act was passed; the Museum was formally opened on the 27 Apr. 1937) Royal Museums Greenwich. Annual review 2011/12: p.1 (founded by statute in 1934, the National Maritime Museum, NMM, maritime museum; in June 2011 Her Majesty The Queen formally approved Royal Museums Greenwich, RMG, as the new collective title for the National Maritime Museum, Queen's House, Royal Observatory, and Cutty Sark) |
| Associated language | eng |
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