{"id":59,"date":"2016-01-22T10:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2016-01-26T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T15:41:56","slug":"national-maritime-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/national-maritime-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"National Maritime Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/national-maritime-museum\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/files\/2016\/01\/rmg_logo_jpg.jpg\" alt=\"rmg_logo_jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/national-maritime-museum\">National Maritime Museum<\/a> is the world\u2019s largest maritime museum with 10 free galleries and a vast collection that spans artworks, maps and charts, memorabilia, and thousands of other objects.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum\u2019s collections contain more than two million items relating to seafaring, navigation, astronomy, and time measurement.\u00a0In addition the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/national-maritime-museum\/caird-library\">Caird Library<\/a> holds some 140,000 printed works, including charts, maps and atlases, and an extensive archive.<\/p>\n<p>The NMM is active in research, with focus on imperial and maritime studies, the study of art and travel, and the history of science and technology. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/national-maritime-museum\/exhibitions-events\">Regular events<\/a> are scheduled, including seminar series, workshops, conferences, and collaborative doctoral and research projects are shared with university partners. Opportunities for external researchers include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/discover\/researchers\/opportunities-events\">long and short-term fellowships and internships<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Maritime Museum is the world\u2019s largest maritime museum with 10 free galleries and a vast collection that spans artworks, maps and charts, memorabilia, and thousands of other objects. The Museum\u2019s collections contain more than two million items relating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/national-maritime-museum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/litscimed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}