International Maritime Museum Hamburg, Maritime museum in HafenCity, Germany.
The International Maritime Museum Hamburg is a maritime museum in the HafenCity district, housed in Kaispeicher B, a brick building with nine exhibition levels. The rooms contain more than 40,000 objects, including ship models, nautical instruments, artworks, and documents on the history of seafaring.
A collector began gathering ship models as a child and opened the museum in 2008 in the oldest surviving warehouse building of Hamburg's harbor. The brick structure dates from the late 19th century and was converted for its new use.
The building takes its name from one of the harbor's oldest warehouses and now shows how seafaring shaped people's lives across millennia. Visitors see uniforms worn by sailors, paintings of ships at sea, and equipment used on board.
The museum sits on Koreastrasse 1 and opens daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with guided tours and an audio guide system available. A ship simulator inside allows visitors to try out navigation techniques themselves.
The eighth floor houses the world's largest collection of ships built from bones. The seventh level focuses on discoveries from deep-sea research and shows what researchers have recovered from the ocean floor.
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