Royal Museums Greenwich

A group of institutions on the Greenwich World Heritage Site in London, comprising the National Maritime Museum (opened 1937, the largest maritime museum in the world), the seventeenth-century Queen’s House, the Royal Observatory at the Prime Meridian (longitude zero), and the tea clipper Cutty Sark (built 1869). The Maritime Greenwich site was inscribed by UNESCO in 1997. The collection holds Nelson’s Trafalgar coat, Turner’s Battle of Trafalgar, and Harrison’s marine chronometers.