精选馆藏
我们致力讲述有关香港与海洋的故事
我们的多样化收藏品包括：陶瓷、船舶模型、航海仪器、画作和照片 。每一件藏品都诉说着不同的故事。
陶瓷
西方国家一向对中国出口的精緻陶瓷趋之若鹜，故此陶瓷在中西贸易的地位举足轻重，大量製品应运而生，有点缀帝皇宫殿的精製瓷器，也有切合欧陆品味的日用器皿。陶瓷的优雅外型和精巧设计，成为后世时尙和风格的灵感泉源。
海事博物馆的陶瓷展品可追溯至17至19世纪大航海时代，数目多达300多件。
船舶模型
自古以来，船舶便负起客运和货运的重任，以形形式式的设计大量建造。建造船舶多就地取材，按当地需求而设计。假若这些船舶仍保存至今，必能为船舶建造和航海贸易的演进，提供珍贵的史料。
幸好，船舶模型工艺与造船业同样历史悠久，因此部分知识得以流存至今。香港海事博物馆有幸拥有多达100件模型，当中有小巧得可捧于掌心的古老船舶，也有与别不同的「耆英」号，按照1:12的比例建成。
航海仪器
由船隻启航那一刻开始，海员便致力寻找最短航线前往目的地，以及准确预测海面状况。海事博物馆收藏的导航器材，让你追溯这些用以测定位置、方向和天气情况等设备的演进历史。
馆内展出的航仪包罗万有，有些是以大气温度、湿度和气压触动组件启动的简单装置，也有以21世纪顶尖科技製成的精密仪器。
画作
历代画家喜以妙笔丹青一抒胸怀，藉此记下当代生活点滴、交流思想、描绘风景，甚或单纯呈现事物的美。细赏画中一草一木，一人一物，尤其是有关中国贸易的画作，可看到画家如何把充斥着符号、计划、主题和象徵概念的世界，细腻而巧妙地描绘出来。
这些画作言有尽而意无穷，如能理会箇中深意，所得裨益更大。
照片
自从人类发现能够利用相机捕足由光线反射而成的影像，这项技术迅即成为重要的史料来源。相机镜头下的影像赋予人物、时装、风景和物件真实的细节，任凭画家天份再高，也无法丝毫不差地记录种种枝节微末。香港由一个细小的贸易站，发展至拥有着名天际线的国际海事中心，整个历史正正记录在这些照片中。
香港海事博物馆甚为重视馆内的照片珍藏。照片数目日渐增多，计有19世纪中以蛋白相纸冲晒的商业作品，也有现今流行的电脑化数码影像。
Collection Highlights
The Hong Kong Maritime Museum has assembled the most comprehensive public collection of marine artefacts in Southern China. Key items highlight over two thousand years of human history – from Han dynasty archaeological relics to the modern technology found aboard the latest container vessels that transport manufactured items from the Pearl River Delta to far corners of the world.
Ceramics
Ceramics, from the humble earthenware to the refined porcelain, have played an important role that transcends the boundaries of time and space. The beautiful pieces from the era of the great China Trade for one, are so coveted by Western consumers that it became perhaps the most important of trades between China and the West.
Apart from these relatively modern pieces, the museum is also home to ceramics from earlier Chinese dynasties. The artistic motifs and qualities of these fine pieces offers a reflection of the characteristics of the particular era.
The museum currently holds over 300 objects dating from the 200s to 1900s AD in its collection of ceramics.
Models
The craft of ship modelling, an art nearly as old and sophisticated as shipbuilding itself offers us an opportunity to understand the evolution of shipbuilding technology. While artistic considerations do lead to deviations away from a fully accurate depiction of the contemporary ship, the essence and interesting details are often perfectly encapsulated by these fine pieces.
The Museum is fortunate to have a collection of more than 100 models that ranges from realistic modern replicas of tankers, to pieces exquisitely crafted in a variety of materials, which ranges from silver to bamboo.
Nautical Instruments & Naval Artefacts
From the moment that vessels first set sail, mariners have been searching for ways to plot the shortest course to their destination and to predict conditions at sea. The Museum's collection of navigational instruments tracks the gradual advance in equipment to determine location, direction and weather conditions.
The museum also displays a range of other naval artefacts, ranging from marine chronometers, naval weaponries, to ship's bells.
Paintings
The application of pigment to a surface has long been the way for artists to express themselves, giving a contemporary account of the times they live in, communicating ideas, recording scenes or simply conveying something beautiful.
A closer look at the detail in the paintings, particularly those on the China Trade era, will reveal the subtleties of artists in depicting a world of symbols, intrigue, themes and metaphors. The Museum is proud to offer its collection of China Trade paintings, which is perhaps the finest of its kind in Asia.
Photography
Photography is a vital source of historical information and the view through a camera lens adds true details to people, fashions, scenes and objects in a way that an artist, however talented, cannot. Photos collected by the museum speak of a common story, one that shows how Hong Kong's history is intimately intertwined with the sea the seafarers, and the sea vessels.
The Museum's photographic collection ranges from pictures of the first commercially produced prints of the mid-nineteenth century to modern computerized digital images.
The Alexander Hume Painting
This giant panoramic scene (gouache on silk, 91.5cm height, 276.5cm width), is thought to have been created in a Canton studio. Made specifically for the European market, it shows a western naturalistic landscape style mounted in the traditional Chinese hand-scroll format. This classical piece of Sino-Western fusion illustrates the starting point of the Canton trade system 250 years ago.Silk painting also highlighted the rapid development of Chinese silk trade at that time.