Treasures of Royal Museums Greenwich

Covering all four of the Royal Museums Greenwich
sites - the National Maritime Museum, the Royal
Observatory, the Queen's House and Cutty Sark -
this fully illustrated volume tells stories of the sea,
space and the stars.
The book features some of the most exceptional and
surprising objects from the Museum's vast and varied
collections, including the coat worn by Vice-Admiral
Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805,
John Harrison's revolutionary marine timekeepers
and the iconic Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I.
Among its other highlights are an intriguing globe
of the planet Mars, a musical toy pig whose tune
calmed children in one of Titanic's lifeboats and a
groundbreaking map of the Moon that was used to
help plan the Apollo Moon landings. Adi Yeta is a
full-scale drua (canoe) made by contemporary Fijian
boat builders and a portrait of an eighteenth-century
naval officer was recently discovered to be a long-
lost work of Thomas Gainsborough.
Treasures of Royal Museums Greenwich also
showcases some of the most exciting acquisitions of
recent years, including artworks by contemporary
artists Yinka Shonibare CBE and Tania Kovats.
This beautifully presented book is the ideal way
to discover the treasures of the Royal Museums
Greenwich collection.