Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Aberdeen, Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire
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Closed — opens 10am
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16☔ Rainy-day friendly🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No on-site parking; blue badge spaces available nearby
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Aberdeen Maritime Museum sits on the historic Shiprow near the harbour and tells the story of the city's long relationship with the sea. Spread over four floors of a 16th-century house and linked modern building, the displays include beautifully detailed ship models from 1689 onwards — including the Aberdeen-built tea clipper Thermopylae, rival of the Cutty Sark — a complete lighthouse lens assembly, figureheads, and the propeller from the steam yacht Fox. A centrepiece is the astonishingly detailed 9-metre-high scale model of the Murchison oil platform. The museum covers shipping (around 3,000 ships were built in Aberdeen between 1790 and 1989), fishing, offshore energy, and the harbour's nearly 900-year history. From the top floor, there are views over the bustling Aberdeen Harbour.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Spare outfit
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Bum bag
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Bibs
- Painkillers for grown-ups
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