- Museums, Museum Ships & Preservation Efforts:
- The 1000 Islands Antique Boat Museum (Clayton, New York)
- The 1000 Islands Museum (Clayton, New York)
- The 1906 Steam Tug Baltimore (Being restored at Baltimore, Maryland)
- The Aberdeen Maritime Museum (Scotland)
- The Admiral Nimitz Museum and Historical Center (Fredericksburg, Texas)
- Ålands Museum (Mariehamn, Finland)
- Ålands Sjöfartsmuseum (The Åland Islands Maritime Museum, Mariehamn, Finland)
- All Submarines on Public Display Around the World
- The American Victory Mariners Memorial and Museum (1945 Victory ship, Tampa, Florida)
- The America’s Cup Museum (1983) (Halls Head, Western Australia)
- The Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum (Restoring and preserving USS LCI 713, and USS Washtenaw County LST 1166, Astoria, Oregon)
- The Annapolis Project (To open the destroyer HMCS Annapolis as a museum in North Vancouver, british Columbia)
- The Anson Museum (Dedicated to the history of the internal combustion engine, Poynton, Cheshire)
- The Antarctic Research Vessel Hero (Open for tours in Newport, Oregon)
- The Apostle Islands Windsled and Aviation Museum (A hybrid motor boat/sled for use on unstable ice, La Pointe, Wisconsin)
- The Arctic Corsair (The last sidewinder trawler to sail from the UK, now a museum in Kingston upon Hull)
- The Argentine Naval Museum (Tigre)
- The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (Prserving USS Razorback (SS 394) and USS Hoga (YT 146), North Little Rock)
- The Artcom Museum Tour® (Links and info on more than 1,700 US museums)
- The Australian Heritage Fleet (Formerly the Sydney Maritime Museum, Australia)
- The Australian National Maritime Museum (Sydney)
- The Australian War Memorial
- The Baltimore Maritime Museum (Preserving USS Torsk SS 423, USCGC Taney WHEC 37 and the lightship Chesapeake, Maryland)
- The Battle of Mobile Bay Civil War Trail (Alabama)
- The Battleship Alabama BB-60
- Battleship Cove (USS Massachusetts and other museum ships, Fall River, Mass.)
- The Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum Society
- The Battleship North Carolina BB-55 (Wilmington, North Carolina)
- The Bay Steamers Maritime Museum (Operating the steam harbour tug Wattle, Melbourne, Australia)
- The Benicia Historical Museum at the Camel Barns (Has the bow of the brigantine Galilee, Benicia, California)
- The Biloxi Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum (Biloxi, Mississippi)
- Bimini Museum (Alice Town, Bimini, The Bahamas)
- The Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port (Canal museum with the world's largest floating collection of inland waterways craft, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire)
- The Brick Store Museum (Kennebunk, Maine)
- The British Military Powerboat Trust
- Buckie and District Fishing Heritage Centre (Scotland)
- The Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park (Home to USS Little Rock (CLG-4), USS The Sullivans (DD-537), and USS Croaker (SSK-246), New York)
- The Butler Point Whaling Museum (In the far north of New Zealand's North Island)
- The California Surf Museum (Surfing museum, Oceanside)
- The Calvert Marine Museum (Solomons, Maryland)
- The Campbell River Maritime Heritage Centre (Preserving the 1927 seiner BCP 45
- The Canadian Canoe Museum (Peterborough, Ontario)
- The Cape Ann Historical Museum (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
- The Center for Wooden Boats (Seattle)
- The Central Naval Museum of Russia
- The CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum (Victoria, British Columbia)
- The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
- The Chinese Warships Museum (Taiwan)
- La Cité de la Mer (Museum of the deep, featuring the French SSBN Le Redoutable, Cherbourg)
- The Clandestine Immigration and Navy Museum (Haifa, Israel)
- The Columbia River Maritime Museum (Astoria, Oregon)
- The Confederate States Navy Museum, Library & Research Institute (Mobile, Alabama)
- The Connecticut River Museum (Essex)
- The Coos Historical and Maritime Museum (North Bend, Oregon)
- The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum (Harkers Island, North Carolina)
- The Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre (British Columbia)
- Cubberley & Shaw Maritime Museum News (Information about maritime heritage activities throughout New England)
- The Cutty Sark
- The Daniel Adamson Preservation Society (1903 passenger carrying steam tug tender, Liverpool)
- The C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum (Xin Zhong Yuen, China)
- The Danish Steam Frigate Jylland (Ebeltoft)
- The Defenders of America Naval Museum (Promoting and preserving in operating condition small combatant craft used by the US and its allies, including PT-305 & PT-309, Kemah, Texas)
- The Delaware and Hudson Canal Historical Society and Museum (High Falls, New York)
- Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven)
- The Dock Museum (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria)
- Don Fernando II e Gloria (1843 Portuguese frigate)
- The Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society (Sturgeon Bay, Cana Island & Gills Rock, Wisconsin)
- The Dossin Great Lakes Museum (Detroit)
- The Dover Museum (England)
- The East End Seaport Museum and Marine Foundation (Greenport, New York)
- The Essex Historical Society & Shipbuilding Museum (Essex, Massachusetts)
- The Evans-West Lists of Nautical Museums (Links to lists of naval, maritime and military museums in Britain, Ireland and their islands)
- The Fells Point Maritime Museum (Baltimore, Maryland)
- The Fireboat Duwamish (Seattle fireboat preserved by the Shipping & Railway Heritage Trust)
- The Fireboat John J. Harvey (Preserved in New York)
- The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia)
- The Fleet Air Arm Museum (Yeovilton, Somerset)
- The Florence Maritime Center - The Captain's Gig Restoration Project (Rejuvenating a 1942 USN 35' officers' motorboat, Port Townsend, Washington)
- The Former USS Potomac (F. D. Roosevelt's presidential yacht, Oakland, California)
- The Four Masted Barque Passat (Preserved in Lübeck, Germany)
- The Four Masted Barque Pommern (Preserved in the Åland Islands, Finland)
- The Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum (At MIT)
- Friends of the Pearl Harbor Tug Boat Hoga (Trying to save the last vessel still afloat that took part in the defense of Pearl Harbor on Decemebr 7, 1941)
- Freundeskreis Klassische Yachten (FKY, German group of fans, freaks and enthusiasts encouraging the preservation of classic yachts)
- The Frigate Unicorn (1824, preserved at Dundee, Scotland)
- The Full-Rigged ship Glenlee (Built Port Glasgow, 1896, berthed "Glasgow Harbour," Scotland)
- The Galveston and Trinity Bay Marine Museum (Texas)
- The Glacier Society ("Uniting polar interest around the globe through restoration and operation of the USS/USCGC Glacier")
- The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
- Grays Harbor Historical Seaport
- The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Whitefish Point, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
- The Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site (British Columbia)
- Gwynn's Island Museum (Virginia)
- The Hamburg Maritime Museum
- Hamilton Ships Company of 1812 (Proposed early 19th century shipyard recreation, Hamilton, Ontario)
- The Hampton Roads Naval Museum (Virginia)
- The Hardanger Ships Preservation Center, Museum & Boatyard (Norway)
- The Havenmuseum (A working harbor museum in the heart of Rotterdam)
- The Herreshoff Marine Museum (Bristol, Rhode Island)
- The Higgins Boat Project (Building a replica LCVP from original plans and original material specifications for display at the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana)
- The Historical Museum of Southern Florida
- The Historic Dockyard Chatham (Preserving the 1878 sloop HMS Gannet, WW II destroyer HMS Cavalier and the postwar submarine HMS Ocelot, Kent)
- The Historic Naval Ships Association's Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide
- Historic Warships at Birkenhead, England (The Frigate HMS Plymouth, the submarine HMS Onyx, the type 9B U-Boat U-534, the Mersey Bar Lightship, LCT 7074)
- History-Sources' Lists of Maritime-Museums in the UK
- The H. Lee White Marine Museum (Displaying the 1943 US Army tugboat Major Elisha K. Henson and the 1925 derrick barge No. 8, Oswego, New York)
- The HMCS Haida Naval Museum (WW II Tribal class destroyer, Toronto
- HMCS Sackville, Canada's Naval Memorial (Halifax, NS, last surviving WW II corvette)
- HMS Belfast (1938 cruiser, London)
- HMS Cavalier Association (Preserving England's last WW II destroyer, Chatham)
- HMS Trincomalee (1817 British Frigate, preserved at Hartlepool)
- HMS Victory on the Web
- HMS Victory, the Virtual Tour
- HMS Warrior (With a virtual tour, Portsmouth, England)
- HMVS Cerberus - The Last Chance How to Save Her (Details of the campaign to save the first breastwork monitor)
- The Houston Maritime Museum
- The Hovercraft Museum Trust (Including an online encyclopedia describing the history of hovercraft, Gosport, England)
- The Hudson River Maritime Museum ( Kingston, New York)
- The Hull Maritime Museum (UK)
- The Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum (Seattle)
- Independence Seaport Museum (Home of USS Olympia, Penn's Landing, Philadelphia)
- The Inland Seas Maritime Museum of the Great Lakes Historical Society (Vermilion, Ohio)
- The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum (New York, New York)
- The Iowa Class Preservation Association
- The Jacksonville Maritime Museum (Florida)
- The Japanese Battleship Mikasa (Admiral Togo's flagship at the Battle of Tsushima)
- The Jean Dale Core Sound Sink Netter Restoration Project (Harkers Island, North Carolina)
- The John H. Amos (Last surviving steam paddle tug in the UK, Faversham, Kent)
- The John A. Noble Maritime Collection (An art and maritime history museum centered around the art and writings of John A. Noble, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York)
- The Kalakala Foundation (Rescuing the 1935 art-deco streamlined Washington ferry, Seattle)
- Kanangra (1912 Sydney inner harbour ferry, Sydney, Australia)
- The Keewatin Maritime Museum (Preserving the 1907 Canadian Pacific Railway steamer Keewatin, Saugatuck/Douglas, Michigan)
- The Kendall Whaling Museum (Sharon, Massachusetts)
- Kilens Skeppsbyggnadsmuseum (Shipbuilding, shipbuilders & ships of Sideby in Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland)
- The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (Basin Harbor, Vermont)
- The Lake Huron Shipwreck & Maritime Center (Located within the Sanilac Shores Underwater Preserve, Lexington, Michigan)
- The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum (Madisonville, Louisiana)
- The Limfjord Museum (Løgstør, Denmark)
- The Lisbon Maritime Museum
- The Lockmaster's House Museum (Chaffey's Lock, Rideau Canal, Ontario)
- Loco Motion (A non-profit organisation trying to preserve and restore any small WW II vessels)
- The Long Island Maritime Museum (West Sayville, New York)
- The Lopez Island Historical Museum (Lopez island, Washington)
- The Los Angeles Maritime Museum (San Pedro, California)
- The Madrid Naval Museum
- The Maine Maritime Museum (Bath)
- The Malta Maritime Museum
- The Mare Island Historic Park Foundation
- The Marine Museum at Fall River (Massachusetts)
- Marine Museum of the Great Lakes (Kingston, Ontario)
- Marine Museum Research Resources (Searchable databases, finding aids selected internet links and articles)
- The Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Virginia)
- Mariners Park Museum (Prince Edward County, Ontario)
- Maritiem Museum Rotterdam (Featuring the 19th-century turret-ram ship Buffel)
- The Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum (Scituate, Massachusetts)
- The Maritime and Yachting Museum (Stuart, Forida)
- The Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler (State University of New York Maritime College)
- Maritime Man (Jerry Radloff's pages dedicated to the saving and restoration of lightships)
- The Maritime Museum of British Columbia (Victoria)
- The Maritime Museum of Crete
- The Maritime Museum of Finland (Helsinki)
- The Maritime Museum of Ilhavo (Portugal)
- The Maritime Museum of Monterey (California)
- The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- The Maritime Museum of Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina)
- The Marquette Maritime Museum (Michigan)
- The Mary Rose Trust
- Mary Rose Virtual Maritime Museum (Raised 16th century warship, Portsmouth England)
- The Medway Queen Preservation Society (A 180' British paddle steamer)
- The Merseyside Maritime Museum (Liverpool)
- The Michigan Maritime Museum (South Haven)
- Military Collections, Museums & Sites of Interest Directory (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, The Channel Islands)
- The Mississippi River Museum at Mud Island River Park (Memphis, Tennessee)
- The Mississippi River Museum & Woodward River Boat Museum (Dubuque, Iowa)
- Monitor M33 (WW I monitor preserved at the Portsmouth Naval Dockyard)
- The Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum (Long Island, New York)
- The Multihull Preservation Society (Seeking to preserve modern multihulls)
- Le Musée de la Marine (Paris)
- Le Musée de la Mer (Havre-Aubert, Magdalen Islands, Quebec)
- Museo Marítimo de Asturias (Luanco, Spain)
- Museu Marítim de Barcelona
- The Museum at Campbell River (British Columbia)
- The Museum in Docklands (London)
- The Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry (Fishing boats & artifacts, Wasilla)
- The Museum of Foteviken (Sweden)
- The Museum of German Inland Navigation (Duisburg)
- The Museum of History and Industry (Seattle)
- The Museum of Lake Minnetonka (The "Streetcar Steamboat" Minnehaha, restored and operating after 50 years at the bottom of a Minnesota lake)
- The Museum of Naval Firepower (Tracing Naval ordnance from the Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf War, Gosport, Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire)
- The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses (Fraserburgh)
- The Museum of Submarine Telegraphy (Porthcurno, Cornwall)
- The Museum of the Albemarle (Elizabeth City, North Carolina)
- The Museum of the Broads (Stalham, Norfolk)
- The Museum of Wellington City & Sea (New Zealand)
- The Museum of Yachting (Newport, Rhode Island)
- Museum Port Willemsoord (Den Helder, The Netherlands)
- The Museum Small Craft Association (MSCA, a group of professionals and amateurs involved in the study and preservation of traditional small craft)
- The Muskoka Boat & Heritage Centre (Steamships and wooden motorboats, Gravenhurst, Ontario)
- The MV Lotus Heritage Foundation (Restoring and preserving a 92' 1909 houseboat yacht, Port Townsend, Washington)
- Mystic Seaport ("The museum of America and the sea")
- The Nantucket Life Saving Museum
- The Nantucket Whaling Museum
- The National Canal Museum (Easton, Pennsylvania)
- The National Historic Seaport of Baltimore (Maryland)
- The National Historic Ships Committee (An organization that deals with policy and strategic matters concerning historic British vessels)
- The National Lifeboat Museum (DenHelder, The Netherlands)
- The National Maritime Museum (San Francisco)
- The National Maritime Museum Association (NMMA)
- The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich (UK)
- The National Maritime Museum Cornwall (Falmouth)
- The National Museum in Hjemmeside, Denmark
- The National Museum of American History
- The National Museum of Denmark
- The National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History (Sadorus, Illinois)
- The Nautical Research Guild Museum Survey Project
- The Naval and Maritime Museum (Valparaíso, Chile)
- The Naval and Maritime Museums List International (Except the USA)
- The Naval and Maritime Museums List United States of America
- Naval & Military Museums & History of Texas
- The Naval Museum of Alberta (Calgary)
- The Naval Museum of Manitoba (Winnipeg)
- The Naval Undersea Museum (Keyport, Washington)
- The Navy of Brazil Documents Service (Operates the Naval and Oceanographic Museum, the 1910 tugboat Laurindo Pitta, Oberon class submarine Riachuelo, destroyer escort Bauru)
- Nelson's Dockyard National Park (Antigua, West Indies)
- The Netherlands Maritime Museum (Amsterdam)
- The New Bedford Whaling Museum
- The Newburyport Maritime Society (Lowell's Boatshop, Amesbury, Massachusetts)
- The New England Pirate Museum (Salem, Massachusetts)
- The New Hampshire Boat Museum (Wolfeboro)
- The New Jersey Museum of Boating (Preserving, presenting and interpreting boats, marine equipment and materials built and used in New Jersey, Point Pleasant)
- The New Netherland Museum (Croton-on-Hudson, New York)
- New York Central Tugboat No. 13 (1887 wrought iron railroad tug)
- New Zealand Museums On-Line
- The New Zealand National Maritime Museum (Auckland)
- The Nordic Heritage Museum (Seattle)
- The Norfolk Nelson Museum (Nelson memorabilia collected by Ben Burgess, Great Yarmouth)
- The Norfolk Wherry Trust (Preserving and operating the large wherry Albion