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Docklands from One Tree Hill

Top Things To Do In The Royal Borough Of Greenwich

Royal palaces, scale a landmark, early music and cheese.

The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942. Photograph by Ansel Adams. Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

Art Review: Ansel Adams @ National Maritime Museum

A collection of stunning black and white photographs of the American West, by one of the founders of modern landscape photography.

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Reminder: Londonist’s Thames Quiz @ National Maritime Museum

How much do you know about that big, wet thing in the middle of London?

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Royal River @ The National Maritime Museum

David Starkey-curated river-fest to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee.

HMS Victory in a bottle in Trafalgar Square. Photo by M@

National Maritime Museum Campaign to Buy Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle

The museum needs your help to buy the artwork

Merchant seamen receiving instruction in the art of anti-aircraft gunnery through the services of a mobile DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) course, from a converted bus.

Preview: Arctic Convoys, 1941-1945 @ National Maritime Museum

A new exhibition looks at the grim task faced by the crews of the Arctic convoys in the Second World War.

Robert Sheehan as Christie in The Playboy of the Western World. Photo by Jay Brooks

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 27 September – 3 October

Our suggestions for the cool theatre and dance shows and art exhibitions opening this week

Anyone else remember Q*bert?

Review: High Arctic @ National Maritime Museum

Make digital ice vanish with a magic torch, just like you’ve always wanted to.

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New Wing Opens At The National Maritime Museum

Two new exhibitions and facilities galore for the Greenwich attraction.

HMS Victory in a bottle in Trafalgar Square

Event Preview: Fourth Plinth Artist Yinka Shonibare @ the National Maritime Museum

A weekend dedicated to Yinka Shonibare and his Ship in a Bottle features films, discussions and an origami battle of Trafalgar. Download your own battle-ready origami boat template today!

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The Maritime Galleries: Shipwrecks In The Round Pond

Clockwork aircraft boat, Espana, by Paya, about 1930 -Photo Arnaud Fux In the second of four posts on our Museum of the Month – The Maritime Galleries – we take a look at the new Toy Boats exhibition that curator, Kristian Martin, enthusiastically showed us …