Curaçao Maritime Museum

Curaçao Maritime Museum, housed in a restored 1729 building	The Curaçao Maritime Museum opened in 1998	Another nicely restored colonial building next to the Martime Museum	Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria
The 4 voyages of Columbus, 1492-1500	Columbus' exploration of the Caribbean missed Curaçao and the neighbouring islands of Aruba and Bonaire	An early chart of the Atlantic	The Spanish removed the remaining native population from Curaçao in 1515 to work as slaves elsewhere
The Dutch West India Company seized Curaçao from the Spanish in 1634	Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of Curaçao 1642-1664	Fort Amsterdam, St. Anne's Bay, Willemstad	Model of the Swedish ship Vasa, which capsized and sank in Stockholm on its maiden voyage
Early Dutch sea chart of Curaçao	The French privateer Jacques Cassard attacked Curaçao in 1713	Early map of the Caribbean Sea	Early map of the Caribbean Sea
Model of the 18th C. Norske Love (Norwegian Lion)	Ship model, Curaçao Maritime Museum	Relics of the Dutch Frigate Alphen, which exploded and sank in the Port of Curaçao, 1778	Relics of the Dutch Frigate Alphen, which exploded and sank in the Port of Curaçao, 1778
Figurehead of the Frigate Alphen, which exploded in the Port of Curaçao, 1778	Engraving depicting the hold of a slave ship. Curaçao was one of the largest slave market in the Caribbean 1670-1815	Painting of Dutch sailing ships in the Netherlands	Dutch privateer Pieter Heyn captured the Spanish silver fleet in 1628
St. Anna's Bay, Curaçao, 1864	Plan of Willemstad and Fort Amsterdam, Curaçao	Dutch sea chart of Curaçao	Dutch sea chart of Curaçao
Dutch possessions in the West Indies	The Dutch colony of St. Eustatius was the first to offer official recognition to a ship of the United States on October 10, 1776	An early steamship	Model of the yacht Prinses Juliana
Curaçao Maritime Museum	View of Willemstad	19th Century Willemstad	Ladies sea trunk
Puzzle of a ship of the Holland America Line	Delft tile - Inaugural season of the Holland America Line MS Veendam	Delft tile - Holland America Line	Model of the Dock Express 20, a diamond-mining ship now operated by De Beers as the Peace in Africa
Underwater diving helmet	Nautical Library, Curaçao Maritime Museum	Nautical Library, Curaçao Maritime Museum	KNSM 1856-1956 (Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij
Holland America Line plate - The Inaugural of the MS Rotterdam VI, 1997	Painting of an early hybrid steamship	Model of the HNLMS gunboat Van Speyk, completed in 1942	Netherlands Navy formal dress uniform
Netherlands Navy officers uniform	Model of the Netherlands Navy Aircraft Carrier Karel Doorman 1948-1968, formerly the HMS Venerable, launched in 1943	HM Panterschip Jacob van Heemskerck	Model of the Seatrade Cold Stream
Model of the SMIT ROTTERDAM