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ICMM's contribution to the maritime museum world. ICMM monitors, nurtures and supports maritime museums and maritime preservation activities on an international scale.

ICMM provides formal and informal networks of communication, information, resources and advice for more than 200 member organisations and individuals. ICMM develops guidelines for the documentation and preservation of historic and traditional ships and boats.

ICMM provides standards and guidelines for underwater archaeology. ICMM develops strategies to ensure long-term public awareness and appreciation of the significance of maritime presevation.

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Bugeye restoration

19th ICMM Congress - September 2019 - Registration Open

Museums face fight to gain control of Titanic artefacts

‘Titanic Artefacts Home’ Campaign Launched

New identity for Mystic Seaport

US National Maritime Heritage Grant for Mystic Seaport Museum

Maritime Museum Rotterdam wins 2018 Netherlands Museum of the Year

Chinese wooden Fu Chuan Junk replica damaged by fire

Maritime Museum Rotterdam wins silver SponsorRing

News & Events - Rotterdam Maritime Museum (in Dutch)

The ‘Virtual Doors’ at the Naval Museum of Quebec (in English & French)

Jakarta Maritime Museum damaged by fire

Unlocking the Collection

Small museum takes advantage of big technology: HKMM and GCI

Logs for 'Edna E Lockwood' Restoration

Historic Ship Pommern gets new home and visitor experience

German Maritime Museum – Liebniz-Institute for Marine History

Maritime Researchers – New whaling database

Traditions and skills a half century on

World Ship Trust Awards 1980-2014

A new maritime heritage precinct for Sydney

Preserving the authentic experience at Mystic Seaport

A decade of Australian stories

Tributes to Martyn Heighton (1947-2016)

Fishermen on Horseback recognised by UNESCO

Fécamp prepares new Museum of Fisheries

Polish National Maritime Museum honour

Retrospective: Mystic's great dream becomes a reality (first published May 2014)

Rijksmuseum acquires rare engraving

Whaling in Australia

Exhibition: New Shipwreck Conservation Centre in Gdansk

Museum Gustavianum and the Department of Archaeology, Upsala University, Sweden, research pre-Viking and Viking boat grave culture

Two events at Chilean National Maritime Museum

CAMM Spot

From Royal Museums Greenwich

News from Mystic Seaport

ICMM Life Fellow Award to Stuart Parnes

Museum expansion puts Canada's historic 'Phoebe' at risk

Mystic Seaport's Shipyard tackles two major projects in tandem

News from the Maritime Museum of San Diego

National Maritime Museum in Gdansk, Poland

New book from Peter Neill, World Ocean Observatory

Researching maritime trade in the 15th to 17th centuries

New exhibition building for Mystic Seaport

Unsinkable! The Nicol Lifeboat

Maritime tourism keeps Indonesian traditions alive

More Rum than Sugar

Restoring Edna E. Lockwood – Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Åland Maritime Museum wins 'Museum of the Year' award

The Netherlands: 'Dordt in Stoom 2016'

Veteran tall ship Sorlandet visits Hong Kong Maritime Museum

Maritime Archaeology in Hong Kong

ICMM visits China and Nan Hai No.1 Ship

Recovery and analysis of remains from the Battle of Iquique

Barbarism and brutality; surviving the Batavia shipwreck

Underwater archaeology in German Rivers

Maritime archaeology in the great museum of the sea

Two important Chinese maritime events

Korea National Maritime Museum's special exhibition

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Exhibition: Jutland 1916: World War I's greatest sea battle

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