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Since its opening in 1915 the Danish Maritime Museum has been housed at Kronborg and at present it occupies most of the castle's first floor. The Museum has a unique collection of objects, pictures, and records telling about Danish trade and shipping through the centuries.
The Museum covers Danish shipping in the period from 1400 to the present day.
With the help of maritime objects, ships' models, paintings, photographs and text boards the Museum tells the story of the Sound Dues, the wars with England (the Napoleonic Wars), trade with China, and trade with the old Danish colonies in India.
The sailor's life is described from the time of Christian IV - through war and peace - up to the present day.
There are special exhibitions on navigation, sea charts, the Lifeboat Service, the Lights and Buoys Service, wooden- and iron-shipbuilding, on sail, steam and diesel, and on the free tramp trade and the restricted line traffic.
The permanent exhibitions are regularly supplemented by changing temporary exhibitions on various maritime and topical subjects.
On top of the collections in the exhibitions the Museum also houses store rooms with several thousand paintings and objects, as well as an administration building in the castle grounds with the Museum's records, a photographic collection of 150.000 photos with almost every Danish ship since about 1880, now over 30.000 digitalized, and a library with 20.000 volumes which is open to the public.
