Sunderland Maritime Heritage

More a quirky workshop than boring museum

The museum looks like an industrial unit from the outside and has limited opening hours as run by volunteers. However, one of them kindly showed us around for an hour or so. We saw models of ships, a ...

Visiting friends

Took here by our friends, so interesting and nicely put together, enjoyed the gun display, nic3 cafe too.

Sunderland Maritime Heritage (A wonderful little gem hidden in Sunderland).

A very educational and friendly visit to Maritime Heritage. The volunteers keep a lovely maritime museum. They do a lot of public displays showing the story of Jack Crawford nailing the colours to t...

Nice place but lacks knowledge

Visited last year. The workshop is pleasant enough but there is only really model ship to see. The small visitor centre is well used for its size. When asking about the history of ships I was resear...

Maritime museum

The history of Sunderland's shipyards is being kept alive by a group of enthusiastic and approachable volunteers. There's a 1/10th scale model of Jack Crawford's ship HMS Venerable and volunteers on h...