INTERNATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM – HAMBURG
Ships and Shipping Model Collection at Hamburg Harbor
What if you gathered one of the world’s most extraordinary private collections of model ships and seafaring artifacts into a ten story warehouse and opened it to the public. That’s what Peter Tamm did with his eight decades long obsession with collecting, from one miniature freighter model the size of broach pin, to thousands of ship models of all sizes and kinds through history, to a room sized model of the Queen Mary II made from Lego blocks. The world’s largest private collection of maritime artifacts is now displayed in a former grain warehouse at the Hamburg Harbor.
Ship Model Collection
The Peter Tamm collection has been housed in the Kaispeichers B, the oldest warehouse of Hamburg’s historic Speicherstadt district since 2008 (see Speicherstadt Museums Hamburg). The 10 story red brick historic building located near the Magdeburger Hafen and Brooktorhafen was built in 1879 for the Silo Warehouse Company of J.W. Boutin. The extensive and valuable exhibit of ships and shipping from around the world is arranged over ten floors of the waterfront warehouse, with not a lot of room to spare, laid out as themed “decks” intended to bring history alive and tell stories from three thousand years of seafaring. The museum features everything from model ships, some of them made from silver and gold, to maritime uniforms, technology of merchant shipping, naval history and maritime research, to the recreated cabins of a turn to the century passenger steamer.
Ship Navigation Simulator
Think guiding the helm of a massive container ship through a harbor is easy? Try your hand at the “wheel” of the ship navigation simulator. This is no video game toy, but a training simulator for budding ship captains and helmsmen, a professional level virtual guidance station with different ports of the world in its virtual data base, to steer a behemoth modern ship through narrow channels. Get a close up look at the decks of long lost battleships, cargo freighters and passenger ships in amazing hand crafted detail or models of the historic sailing naval frigates and Man o’ Wars of the Napoleonic age built by eye witness sailors held in prison ships, spending uncounted hours recreating the ships they served on from memory.
Enigma Code Machine
At the Hamgurg Maritime Museum of special interest for movie fans, in the submarine collection area are examples of the Enigma Coding Machines captured from Germany which helped to end the war. This is the real version of the code machine which was featured in the story of "The Imitation Game" movie about Alan Turing and his team of decoders, who built their own machine to break the Enigma Codes, as well as the submarine movie "U-571" about capturing one of the machines from a Nazi U-Boat.
More – Exhibit Decks of the Hamburg Maritime Museum
Visiting the International Maritime Museum Hamburg
The museum is open from 10am to 6pm Tuesday through Sunday, closed on Mondays. Admission is €12 for adults €9 Concession (Students & Seniors). Visitors with a Hamburg Card €8.50. Family Tickets with 1 or 2 adults are available.An audio guide is €3.50. Guided Tours with a maritime expert are offered in English at €55 for 60 minutes, €70 for 90 minutes plus the admission fee. The Martime Museum is near the U4 subway line Überseequartier Station, and is a stop on the Maritime Circle Line harbor tour (see Hamburg Harbor Tours). The Speicherstadt warehouses (see Miniature Hamburg Model Railway) are a 3 minute walk. © Bargain
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