INTERNATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

Thursday 8 October 2009
(1000 - 1230)

Photo by Michael Zapf

In an extensively renovated old warehouse, Hamburg offers the spectacular International Maritime Museum. The large new seafaring-history museum adds a unique collection of maritime items to the tourist attractions on Hamburg’s waterfront.

Photo by Michael Zapf

A millionaire collector of model ships, Peter Tamm, 80, created this latest attraction in a refurbished 10-storey brick warehouse, the oldest surviving port-storage building in the city's old docklands. Tamm's extraordinary collection of

Photo by Michael Zapf
 
1.000 model ships

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5.000 marine paintings

and 60 naval uniforms illustrates the race for technological and military supremacy on and under the sea.

Photo by Michael Zapf

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