The mission statement for the National Maritime Museum works to illustrate for everyone the importance of the sea, ships, time and the stars and their relationship with people and does so with
regular viewing and low graphics.Online visitors are able to change the size of text, links are meaningful, CSS is used to control style and alt attributes are used to describe graphics. These are just a few of the elements used to provide a web site which includes over 7500 objects available online, collections online which provides access to almost 6000 catalogue records and over 7000 images of objects from their ceramic, jewelry, firearm, edged weapon, sundial, globe, quadrant and commemorative medal and coin collections