Küstenmuseum Juist, Maritime museum in Juist, Germany.
The Inselmuseum Juist occupies two modernised and extended wings of the former Landschulheim in the Loog district, with more than 500 square metres of exhibition space. Ten rooms cover tourism, transport, early settlement, coastal finds and life in a Frisian parlour; an eleventh room holds a special exhibition that changes each year.
The museum grew from a natural-history teaching collection assembled by art and science teacher Fritz Hafner, with Erna Vohsen and Paul Reiner, at the School by the Sea, which closed in 1934. Hafner offered the collection to the island community as the basis for a local museum and became its first director, serving until 1953. His son followed for three years, then Arend Lang oversaw its expansion into the Küstenmuseum. It reopened as Inselmuseum Juist in March 2024.
The museum's name changed in March 2024, when the Küstenmuseum reopened as the Inselmuseum Juist after a period of redevelopment. Its eleven rooms cover tourism, transport, early settlement and beach finds, and one room is reserved for a special exhibition that changes every year.
The museum is located in the Loog district and offers disabled access with mobile seating and equipment rentals for visitors with reduced mobility. Plan enough time to explore the eleven rooms at a comfortable pace.
Until the late 1950s the school's seawater aquarium held thirty tanks; in 1958 a seawater basin was built in the northern inner courtyard, where the seal "Billi" lived until the mid-1970s and drew crowds of visitors.
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