Museumswerft Flensburg, Maritime museum and shipyard in Flensburg, Germany.
Museumswerft Flensburg is a non-profit shipyard museum at Schiffbrücke 43 on Flensburg harbour, founded in 1996 and back at its original site since 2001. In its workshops, sailboats and working boats of the kind seen in the Baltic region 100 to 200 years ago are built and restored, and courses teach the use of old tools.
The museum was established in 1996 to preserve the old boat-building tradition of the port city, which shaped the regional economy over centuries. Since then, it has contributed to keeping this craft heritage alive through active workshop work and ship restorations.
The site embodies the craftsmanship tradition of a port city, where visitors watch real artisans at work. The daily workshop activity demonstrates how this knowledge passes through generations and remains alive in the region.
Visitors should allow enough time for a walk around, as there are multiple areas to explore and artisans working in the workshops to observe. The site is open throughout the year, and it is worthwhile to visit the workshops at different times when craftspeople are actively working.
The museum occupies its original founding site at Schiffbrücke 43 since 2001, after moving several times between 1996 and 2001. It is run as a non-profit limited company and backed by a support association. Young people regularly build their own boats here as projects.
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