National Museum, Maldives

An interesting museum, with displays about the history of the Maldives, it has sections with displays of postage stamps, coins and bank notes from historical issues.

Small museum, but it was interesting to see the complete whale skeleton. Some pretty unique artifacts, but don't expect a big exhibition.

Nice little museum to visit while in Male. It isn't big, but it tells you some information about Maldivian history.

Had high expectations of the museum. There are 2 floors but hardly any items. With so many beaches and varied aquatic animals i had expected such display in the museum but was highly disappointed. Only one room for aquatic related items but has mainly shells and stuffed turtle. The more recent political aspects of Maldives is not explored deeply either. There are another 2 floors yet to open however, so likely more interesting history yet to come. There are quite a bit too see but I didn't feel too impressed.

Nice showcase of Maldives history. Police museum is just great. Complete history of Maldives Police department shown on video screens. Museum fees is $6 per person and $1 for one device for photography. Good place to visit with kids. Got lots of information about Maldives after visiting National museum.

This museum has Maldives whole historical things and monuments all types of shells, things, corals etc the museum is very nice and maintained properly but it's too overpriced idk y they have kept the ticket costly but hardly any visitor's

For me, it was a great experience! The museum is not that big, but so are the Maldives too. Very interesting to see some stones with Buddhist carvings from the time before Islam. Also very interesting for me the "first" things, like first vaccination needles for small pox by WHO from 1951 or the first microscope used to dissect mosquitoes from 1966, or the Maldivian flag carried to the moon by Apollo 11. Since I arrived only 1 hour prior closing, the nice young staff member reminded me to go upstairs too to see the exhibition there with furniture, China and clothes from the sultanate time, skeleton of a sperms whale and a Longman's beaked whale and nany more. I really liked the mixture of the exposed items. Plan at least 2 hours if you want to explore the whole museum quietly.

Museum is right in the middle of capital city. Place has some of the artifacts from a couple of centuries back, but most of the items are of pretty recent times, and are just ok to see Some of the fish skeletons are really interesting. Police museum is good.