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The Old Royal Naval College
We are the custodian and owner of significant naval and Greenwich Hospital heritage objects, most of which are on permanent loan to the National Maritime Museum and the ORNC.
The buildings of the ORNC were home to the 20,000 Greenwich Hospital pensioners of the Royal Hospital for Seamen between 1705 – 1869 and then housed the Royal Naval College until the mid-1990s.
Today the ORNC site, with its Painted Hall, Chapel and fine Baroque buildings, is an extraordinary cultural destination in the heart of the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site run by the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College.
Read more about the ORNC.
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The National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital established the National Gallery of Marine Paintings in 1823, with George IV launching the scheme with a major gift of portraits from the Royal Collection, including Turner’s only royal commission. Nelson’s Trafalgar coat was donated in 1845 by Prince Albert.
Responsibility for the collection passed to the National Maritime Museum on its founding in 1934.
Read more about the National Maritime Museum.
Heritage
We are the freeholder of the original Greenwich Hospital site, now better known as the Old Royal Navy College (ORNC), within the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage site.
