📷 Since 2015, Jack Lowe, award-winning photographer and creator of The Lifeboat Station Project, has been on a mission to photograph the crew members of all 238 RNLI lifeboat stations.

📷 Read our interview with Jack to learn more about his quest at bit.ly/LoweInterview

Dive into 'The Art of Naval Portraiture' by Dr. Katherine Gazzard, from Royal Museums Greenwich. Explore 120+ portraits revealing gender, class, and wartime tales, including a mysterious 1945 WRNS pastel portrait 🎨⚓

📍Get your copy here: shop.rmg.co.uk/products/the-a…

We're excited to announce we'll be working with UK Space Agency to inspire the next generation of astronomers and astronauts with a new outreach programme for young people!

Last night was a rare opportunity to see the Northern Lights in the UK thanks to the largest geomagnetic storm for over two decades. Weather depending, you might be able to see them tonight as well!

Here’s a couple of pictures we took last night:
#NorthernLights #Auroraborealis

Today is the first National Fishing Remembrance Day, an annual event commemorating those who lost their lives at sea.

Drawing on our Maritime Memorials database, we’ve launched an interactive map with The Seafarers' Charity highlighting stories of past fishers: bit.ly/FishingMemoria…

✨ 'Look Up!' is the monthly podcast by Royal Observatory astronomers Jess and Julienne that explores what's coming up in the night sky.

✨Listen to the new episode at bit.ly/3WBIXIy

12 Silk Handkerchiefs live on the Cutty Sark

A special performance to mark the first #NationalFishingMemorialDay

Remembering lives lost at sea, and lives saved by Lillian Bilocca and the ‘Headscarf Revolutionaries’

🗓️ Thursday 16th May
🎟️ rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cutty…

🌕 Take a look at the last Full Moon of 2022 with 'Last Full Moon of the Year Featuring a Colourful Corona During a Close Encounter With Mars', by Miguel Claro

🌕 Find this photograph at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. #APY15

🗺️ Maps and charts were frequently possessed by naval officers and politicians and were an essential tools for strategically plotting and documenting voyages but they could also be decorative and fun objects.

🗺️ Explore our print collection bit.ly/3UNi5nE

🎈 Not sure where to bring the little ones this May half term? We've got you sorted! We have something for everyone at the National Maritime Museum, the Queen's House and Cutty Sark.

🎈 Join in the fun between 26 May – 2 June. See the full programme at rmg.co.uk/plan-your-visi…

✨ 99 years ago today the sky was brought down to Earth for the first time, with the world's first projection planetarium opening to the public at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.

✨ Have you ever visited our Peter Harrison Planetarium? #InternationalDayOfPlanetariums

⚓Cutty Sark has led a dramatic life. First built exclusively for the China tea trade in Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1869, but was forced out of the trade for which it had been built after just eight voyages.

⚓ When was the last time you visited Cutty Sark?

🔭 Spring is known as ‘galaxy season’, as Earth is at a point in its orbit where we get a good view of some of the brightest galaxies visible with a telescope.

🔭 Read our blog to learn more about galaxies you can spot and more May night sky highlights: bit.ly/May24Highlights

📣 Calling prospective PhD students! Apply for an exciting collaborative PhD research project on disabled seafarers & workers in the Stuart Navy 1600-1750 with us & UEA History. Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, starting Oct 2024 shorturl.at/epstY #AHRC #disability #history #PhD