Museum harbour Greifswald, Maritime museum in Greifswald, Germany

The Museum Harbour Greifswald lies northeast of the old town on the Ryck and holds over 50 ships, making it Germany's largest museum harbour. The vessels include gaff-rigged cutters such as the 1919 Haikutter Hanne Marie, the 1930 gaff schooner Solvang, and the 1897 metal-hulled logger Lovis. The former steam icebreaker Pomeria has housed the Hornfischbar restaurant since 2005, and the ram Heimkehr is among the last of its kind in German harbours.

The harbour grew out of a 1980s working group on fishing tradition within the GDR's Kulturbund, but plans for a museum harbour were repeatedly blocked by SED concerns over too many ships near the Polish border. In 1988 the first Gaffelrigg gathering of old boats, mostly Zeesboote, was held and has continued annually. After 1990 the city port was given up as a transshipment site and moved to the former Volksmarine oil harbour in Ladebow; the association Museumshafen Greifswald e. V. was founded on 23 February 1991, with links to Flensburg's museum harbour.

The harbor reflects the city's deep connection to seafaring, which visitors feel immediately while walking past the traditional vessels. The well-kept wooden ships and the activities at the wharves show how the sea and maritime work shaped people's lives here for generations.

The site is accessible year-round and invites self-guided walks along the vessels. Guided tours are offered from April through October at the Fangenturm information center to learn more about the individual ships.

The former steam icebreaker Pomeria has housed the "Hornfischbar!" restaurant on board since April 2005. The ram Heimkehr, one of the last surviving vessels of its kind in German harbours, also lies in Greifswald. The fishing cutter Seefuchs left the harbour in 2017 to serve as a private rescue ship in the Mediterranean.