Both places discussed interesting times during exploration.
The Royal Geographic Society was a school for explorers where they could go and read up on people who had come before them and learn about how to be an explorer. I knew about the place from reading the "Lost City of Z" for class. The person in the book had come to the Society to learn information about the missing explorer.
On the way to the National Maritime Museum, the class went with another class on a boat ride to get to Greenwich. We had to walk through the University to get to the museum and the university was breathtaking. There was even a woman doing a wine commercial there.
The sitdown at the museum was great I loved that the tour giver used a powerpoint to keep us engaged. Behind the tour giver in a case were beautiful replicas of ships. Inside the library where our tour was given, there was a whole section of books on the Slave Trade. The storage for the library is on 2 floors which allows for better access. The library has curators of ship plans. They have a large rare book collection starting during the 14th century. The library has chart tables to look at charts. The library also has multiple subscriptions to use for genealogy research. It has about 750 different collections and 80,000 charts.
5,000 visitors are at the site every year. They do not use Dewey in this library. There are about 1000 painted atlases.
I love that part of the wall is a map.
Inside the museum was displayed dinnerware used on cruise ships.
I wound up getting a couple of books on the Slave Trade from the bookstore there.
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https://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum
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