The Queen has formally approved Royal Museums Greenwich as the new overall title for the National Maritime Museum, Queen’s House and Royal Observatory Greenwich in the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
All three sites will be known under the new group title, to strengthen understanding of the links between them.
A spokesperson for Royal Museums Greenwich said that each site will also retain its individual identity, reflecting the different roles and collections they bring to public appreciation of the overall group and Maritime Greenwich as a whole.
Commenting on the announcement, Kevin Fewster, Director of Royal Museums Greenwich, said everyone was “very proud” that the Queen has granted the museum the right to use the overall title.
“Its aim is to help our ever-increasing numbers of visitors understand the royal connections between our three museums, their significance within historic Greenwich and the extraordinary stories we have to tell here,” he added.
2012 looks like it will be an eventful year for the Royal Museums Greenwich group, Greenwich and the Queen.
In April, the National Maritime Museum opens the exhibition, Royal River: Power, Pageantry & the Thames, celebrating the Diamond Jubilee and marking the 75th anniversary of the museum's opening in 1937 by King George VI.
Meanwhile, Cutty Sark will also reopen to the public after four years of restoration work.
With the restoration of the world's last tea clipper edging towards completion, five years after they were removed for conservation the iconic masts of the ship were returned and raised back into position just before Christmas.
A video of the masts being raised can be seen below.
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