Naval and Maritime Museums: Germany

Altona

Altonaer Museum

Norddeutsches Landesmuseum,
Museumstrasse 23,
Postfach 50 01 25,
D-22765 Hamburg-Altona.

Telephone: +49 (0)40 3807 514.
Telephone: +49 (0)40 3807 2122/2143.
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Museen/am/

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-18:00.

Brake

Seefahrtsmuseum der Oldenburgischen Weserhäfen

An der Kaje und Breite Straße 9,
D-26919 Brake.

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00; Sunday, 10:00-17:00

Bremen

Seemannschule Bremen

Schulschiff Deutschland (1927), three-masted full-rigged steel ship.

Bremerhaven

Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum

Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1,
D-27568 Bremerhaven.

Telephone: +49 (0)471 48 2070
Telefax: +49 (0)471 482 0755
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://WWW.deutsches-schiffahrtsmuseum.de

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00; Also opened Second Day of Easter and Second Day of Whitsuntide. Closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.

The German national maritime museum.
Museum ships:

14th century cog.
Elbe 3 (1909), lightship.
Gera (1958), "Seitenfänger".
Grönland (1867), wood sloop.
Kranich (1958), motor torpedo boat.
Paul Kossel (1920), concrete vessel.
Rau IX (1939), whale catcher.
Seefalke (1924), seagoing tug.
Seehund (1944), mini-submarine (from Deutsches Museum, München?).
Seute Deern (1919), wooden three-masted barque.
Stier (1954), tug.
Wilhelm Bauer (1945), Type XXI submarine, originally U 254D. Raised from the bottom after the war?
WSS 10 (1953), experimental hydrofoil vessel.

Cuxhaven-Stickenbüttel

Wrackmuseum

Dorfstraße 80,
D-27476 Cuxhaven-Stickenbüttel.

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00-12:00, 15:00-17:00.

A ship-wreck museum.

Duisburg

Niederrheinisches Museum

Friedrich-Wilhelm Straße 64,
D-47051 Duisburg.

Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday - Saturday, 10:00-17:00; Wednesday, 10:00-16:00; Sunday 11:00-17:00.

Duisburg-Ruhrort

Museum der Deutschen Binnenschiffahrt

Apostelstrasse 84,
D-47119 Duisburg.

Telephone: +49 (0)203 808 890
Telefax: +49 (0)203 808 8922

Opening hours: Tuesday, Friday - Sunday, 10:00-17:00; Wednesday-Thursday, 10:00-16:00.

Museum ships:

SS Minden (1882), "Einmerkettenbagger".
Goede Verwachting (1913), tjalk.
SS Oskar Huber (1922), "Flußradschlepper".

Düsseldorf

Schiffartsmuseum im Schlossturm

Burgplatz 30,
D-40213 Düsseldorf

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00-17:00

Emden

Museums-Feuerschiff "Amrumbank"

Georg-Breusing-Promenade,
Georg-Breusing-Promenade,
D-26721 Emden.

Telephone: +49 (0)4921 21285
Telefax: +49 (0)4921 33203
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

The lightship Amrumbank.

Seenotrettungskreuzer "Georg Breusing"

Förderkreis Rettungskreuzer "Georg Breusing e.V.
Georg-Breusing-Promenade,
Postfach 1502,
D-26695 Emden.

The lifeguard ship Georg Breusing.

Emmerich

Reinmuseum Emmerich

Martinikirchgang 2,
D-46446 Emmerich.

Telephone: +49 (0)2822 75400

Opening hours: Monday-Wednesday 10:00-12:30 & 14:00-16:00, Thursday 10:00-12:30 & 14:00-18:00, Friday & Sunday 10:00-12:30; April — September also Sunday 14:00-16:00. Closed New Year, Second Day of Easter, Second Day of Whitsuntide, and Christmas.

The museum illustrates the Rhein-river shipping.

Flensburg

Flensburger Schiffahrtsmuseum

Schiffbrücke 39,
D-24939 Flensburg.

Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-17:00; Sunday, 10:00-13:00

Museumshaven e.V.

Museum ships:

SS Alexandria (1908), coal-fired passenger steamer.
Frieda (1918), sailing cutter.

Hamburg

Museumsschiffe Landungs- und Überseebrücke Hamburg

Überseebrücke,
D-20459 Hamburg.

Telephone: +49 (0)40 364209

Museum ship: Rickmer Rickmers (1896), three-masted barque.

St. Pauli Landungsbrücken,
Fiete-Schmidt-Anleger Ponton 1A,
D-20359 Hamburg.

Telephone: +49 (0)40 3195959

Museum ship: MS Cap San Diego (1962), cargo freighter.

Museum f�r Hamburgische Geschichte.

Holstenwall 24,
D-20355 Hamburg.

Telephone: +49 (0)40 3504 2380
Telefax: +49 (0)40 3497 3103.
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Museen/mhg/

Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-17:00; Sunday 10:00-18:00.

There is a large scale model of the Wapen von Hamburg (1668) in the entrance hall.

Museumshaven �velg�nne

Övelgönne,
D-22605 Hamburg.

Museum ships:

Elbe 3 (1888), lightship.
Möwe (1907), steel "Besanewer".
SS Tiger (1910), tug.
SS Claus D. (1913), tug.
Präsident Freiherr von Maltzahn (1927), wooden fishing cutter.

Other ships which can be seen at the museum include:

Frieda (1909), "Giekewer".
Fortuna (1914), sailing steel tjalk.

Husum

Schiffahrtsmuseum Husum

Am Zingel 15 D-25813 Husum.

Telephone: +49 (0)4841 5257

Opening hours: Easter — October, 10:00-17:00.

Kiel

Kieler Schiffartsmuseum mit Museumshaven

Wall 65,
D-24103 Kiel.

Telephone: +49 (0)431 9013428
Telefax: +49 (0)431 901978909

Opening hours: April 15 — October 14, daily 10:00-18:00; October 15 — April 14, Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00.

Marine-Ehrenmal

Laboe.

Museum ship:

U 995 (1943), type VII C submarine.

Koblenz

Rhein-Museum Koblenz

Charlottenstrasse 53a,
D-56 077 Koblenz.

Telephone: +49 (0)261 703450.

A large number of ship models illustrating the shipping on the river from the Roman times until today.

Mainz

Museum für antike Schiffahrt

Neutorstraße 2b,
D-55116 Mainz

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00-18:00.

This museum which opened on November 28, 1994, houses the remains of the five Roman warships excavated in 1981 and 1982 in Mainz. The wrecks were found at 7,5 meters depth just outside the Roman time city walls of Mainz when excavating for the Mainz Hilton Hotel. A reconstruction of one of the ships can be seen at the museum.

M�nchen

Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik.

Museum-Insel,
D-80538 München.

Telephone: +49 (0)89 2179 1
Telefax: +49 (0)89 2179 324

WWW: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/DT-MUSEUM/schiff.htm

Opening hours: 09:00 - 17:00.

A Science Museum with a large Shipping Exhibition.
Museum ships:

Maria (1880), fishing ewer HF-31.
U 1 (1906), submarine.
Biber (1944/45), mini-submarine.
Seehund (1944/45), two mini-submarines of the same class.
Molch (1944/45), mini-submarine.
Theodor Heuss (1957), rescue ship (Seenotrettungskreuzer).

Potsdam

Deutsches Armeemuseum

Neuer Garten,
D-14469 Potsdam.

The museum of the German army.
Museum ship:

Brandtaucher (1851), the oldest preserved submarine in the world.

Regensburg

Donau Schiffbaumuseum

Postfach 110510,
D-93018 Regensburg.

Telephone: +49 (0)941 52510.

Rostock

Schiffbaumuseum

Postfach 46,
D-2520 Rostock-Schmarl.

Telephone: +49 3781 716246

Museum ships:

Torpedoboat (1960), preserved on land.
Torpedoboat (1973).
MS Dresden (1958), cargo freighter.
Saturn (1908), steam tug.
Wismar (1949), wooden fishing boat.

Schiffahrtsmuseum

Im Steintor,
August-Bebel-Straße 1,
D-18055 Rostock.

Telephone: +49 3781 22697

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00-18:00.

Stralsund

Marinemuseum D�nholm

Sternschanze Dänholm ,
Haus 10,
D-18439 Stralsund.

Telephone: +49 (0)3831 297327
WWW: http://www.mvnet.de/inmv/hst/m_marine.htm

Exihibits of German naval history and naval warfare, the traffic between Scandinavia and Germany via the Baltic Sea and the island of Rügen.

Travemünde

Museum ship: Passat (1911), a four-masted steel barque.

Updated 2002-02-08 by Lars Bruzelius

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