hindsTMP  | 02 Dec 2015 8:01 p.m. PST |
I notice that Norman Friedman's new book on British battleships contains photos of ship models captioned "formerly in the Science Museum". If warship models are no longer to be found in the Science museum, where have they been moved to? MH |
| Goober | 02 Dec 2015 8:25 p.m. PST |
They may still be property of the Science Museum, but kept in storage. They rotate exhibits from time to time. The submarine periscope they had when I visited as a child disappeared for a while. G. |
| whitphoto | 02 Dec 2015 8:42 p.m. PST |
I know here in NY the state museum loans out exhibits and borrows exhibits from other museums/private collections. There was a WWII vehicle display a couple years ago that was largely borrowed from a local collector. |
| GurKhan | 03 Dec 2015 2:22 a.m. PST |
If it's the same ship models, an item at link talks about them going into storage in 2011. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 03 Dec 2015 8:16 a.m. PST |
There was a WW1 exhibition last year at the IWM which featured a very nice, very large HMS Neptune (I think: anyway it was the generation after Dreadnought with the wing turrets that fired across the deck). Not sure where that sits when the exhibition ends. |
| hindsTMP | 03 Dec 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the replies. We are planning a trip to UK in October 2016 in conjunction with the Hastings re-enactment. I guess I can skip the Science Museum. Strange that UK doesn't seem to have a good naval-oriented museum. We visited the IWM about 10 years ago (?) and I was disappointed as to how they used their limited space, in this regard. Mark H. |
| Nuns With Guns Fan | 03 Dec 2015 9:41 a.m. PST |
For naval museum, try the Greenwich National Maritime Museum. Further afield, National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth…reachable from London by train (several a day from Waterloo and/or Victoria) and taxi. |
| dwight shrute | 03 Dec 2015 10:32 a.m. PST |
Greenwich museum is a must and take the river boat to get there . |
| MattyGroves | 03 Dec 2015 2:36 p.m. PST |
Ummmm….Portsmouth has a few exhibits one might call "naval-oriented" |
| Cerdic | 03 Dec 2015 2:40 p.m. PST |
It's been a fair few years since I visited the Greenwich Museum but I seem to remember it was pretty big. In a lovely building as well. You can also see the Greenwich Meridian and all the timey-wimey stuff. Portsmouth dockyard is a good visit. It has been developed considerably over the last few years. Not just the Victory and Mary Rose any more. There is also the Chatham Dockyard Museum on the Kent side of the Thames estuary. They have several vessels and an amazing 18th Century ropery. Apparently the longest building in the world when it was built. Or something! We have plenty of maritime heritage stuff, but it is all spread about all over the place! |
| myrm11 | 03 Dec 2015 5:05 p.m. PST |
IWM have HMS Belfast…but naval, bit museum… |
| DHautpol | 04 Dec 2015 7:15 a.m. PST |
Greenwich also has the first Royal Observatory and the Harrison chronometers built to solve the longitude problem. |
| Jimlad48 | 04 Dec 2015 9:05 a.m. PST |
There were still a lot of large ship models on the top floor of the science museum until recently. Well worth going to as a museum. The Queens House and NMM are well worth going to as well. Also, HMS PRESIDENT (the ship not the RNR base) is usually open to the public if you want to see a Corvette hull (that no longer looks like one otherwise). |
| hindsTMP | 04 Dec 2015 10:12 a.m. PST |
We've seen HMS Belfast, NMM, and Portsmouth on previous trips. All worthwhile visits, as stated above. MH |
| Jemima Fawr | 09 Dec 2015 5:43 a.m. PST |
The Science Museum Reserve Collection is open to the public (by appointment). It's housed in two locations: one is in Kensington (West London) and the other is in hangars of the former RAF Wroughton, near Swindon, Wiltshire (about 90 minutes west of London on the M4): link |
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