Highlights this month include a major exhibition Pirates and Jaqueline Bishop’s new artwork.
EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS
Pirates – NEW EXHIBITION: 29 March 2025 – 4 January 2026
A major exhibition tracing the changing depictions of pirates throughout the ages and revealing the brutal history often obscured by fiction. While sometimes portrayed as tricksters or scoundrels, pirates are primarily swashbuckling adventurers associated with lush islands, flamboyant dress and buried treasure. The Pirates exhibition will deconstruct these myths and illuminate the realities of pirate life, including those of the pirates Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach, William Kidd, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. The exhibition will cover piracy across the globe looking at the South China Sea, Indian Ocean and Barbary pirates who operated off the coast of North Africa. BOOK NOW
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 16: Daily
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography. Photographers from across the globe compete to take home the prestigious title. Over 100 photographs are on show in a special exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, displayed at their best on brilliant lightbox displays.
The Keeper of All the Secrets: From 21 March 2025 onwards
Jacqueline Bishop's The Keeper of All the Secrets is a major new acquisition that will go on display in the Queen's House. The Jamaican-born artist has adorned a traditional British tea service with collages of Caribbean market women intertwined with local flowers and plants. The work focuses on women’s agency and resistance in the Caribbean, while exploring the legacies of the tea and sugar trades, empire and enslavement. It was developed in partnership with Culture&, as part of their programme Time, Space and Empire (2024-2025).
FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE
See website for information on the following events forfamilies and young children. Safe Harbour; SENsory Sailors; LGBT+ Family Network; Character Encounters; Play Tuesdays; Discover Sundays; Family Trails and Backpacks at the National Maritime Museum and Family Trails and Backpacks at the Queen’s House.
Further Information: Kids at National Maritime Museum | Family-Friendly Museum (rmg.co.uk)
PRINCE PHILIP MARITIME COLLECTIONS CENTRE
Including Saturday Super Store Tours - 1 March; Behind the Scenes Tour - 13, 27 March 2025; SENsory Social Club, Fridays during term-time; Make, Do and Maintain - 1 March 2025 and CoderDojo 1 March 2025.
National Maritime Museum: Open daily 10am – 5pm
Further Information: Royal Museums Greenwich | Home (rmg.co.uk)