Hull Maritime advent calendar

In total, 50 paintings will be restored to ensure they are in the best possible condition for when they go ...

Hull’s last remaining 20^th century Scotch Derrick crane will be restored.

In early 2021, it will be dismantled into sections ...

There are approximately 50,000 items in the Hull Maritime Museum’s collection, ranging from small medals to the whale skeletons

The ...

Here’s a Christmas card to the parents of Joseph Roberts from Port Said in Egypt, Christmas 1946. From the troop ...

A Christmas card sent by Walter Duckering to his parents from HMS Hermes near Hong Kong in 1932.  HMS Hermes was the first ...

A Christmas card and cartoon produced by the Naval Control Service, Humber.

The NCS was established at the outbreak ...

A  look back to earlier in the year when you voted for your favourite items to be part of a ...

The Guildhall Time Ball is one of the UK's last remaining Time Balls. It is a rare historic timepiece.

It is ...

Here’s a Christmas card from the Fishermen's Bethel, Hessle Road, Hull with a suitably moral and uplifting motto, 1940-41.

Did you know that despite lockdown, volunteers have contributed more than 250 hours to the project in 2020!

One of Hull’s best kept secrets – the North End Shipyard, will become a new visitor attraction and home for ...

Dock Office Chambers, adjacent to the museum, will be repurposed and will become a new storage centre for our reserve ...

Queens Gardens was once the largest dock in the UK.

As part of the improvements, the gardens will create ...

The Hull Maritime Museum will be fully refurbished, opening areas never seen before by the public. 

Work to transform the building ...

The Spurn Lightship played a key role in protecting Humber shipping. 

The Spurn Lightship will move to a ...

The Arctic Corsair is a symbol of our trawling past within living memory.

In spring 2021, the trawler will move ...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Eastern Mediterranean.

From Gordon', 1 November 1942, addressed to Mrs H Foster ...

We’re celebrating the start of a Christmas countdown and Hull’s maritime heritage!

This project will protect and showcase the city’s ...

FACT: There’s an estimated 13,413 images in our photograph collection.

Here’s the cover for the Hull 1886 Christmas Annual edited by William Andrews. 

With an evocative view overlooking Princes Dock ...

This is a Christmas card showing Trinity House cadets attending a Sunday church parade at Holy Trinity Church.  

Naval Christmas card from 1952 from the posessions of Hull seaman John William Morris. 

Inscribed with "I was demobbed ...

So far, more than £845,000 has been raised as part of our fundraising efforts to reach our fundraising target ...

Here’s a letter thanking Mrs Roberts for her donation of £1 for the Forces Christmas Festivities in 1941. 

From the ...