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Nelson's coat with the bullet hole in it, and ten free galleries of what the sea did to Britain.
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Free, and it runs from the middle outwards. Ocean Court holds the biggest things — a lighthouse lens whose beam carried seventeen miles, the stern of a ship that fought at Trafalgar, and the Ocean Map, a view of the world drawn round the water rather than the land. From there: Maritime London on three hundred years of the Thames as a working river; Sea Things, a room of small strange objects, a coat hook made from an albatross beak and a pocket watch belonging to someone who drowned on the Titanic; Pacific Encounters and Polar Worlds; Tudor and Stuart Seafarers; Nelson, Navy, Nation, where the coat Nelson was shot in at Trafalgar is displayed with the hole still in the shoulder; Forgotten Fighters, Traders, and Atlantic Worlds on the slave trade the port was built on. Ahoy! and the Cove playground are for small children, and the Astronomers Take Over gallery is hands-on for anyone from four upwards.
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