Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg

[Cav Dog]

Kitchen 6 and I just got back from a trip to Germany, where among other places, we spent a couple of days in Hamburg. We were there to see Hamilton, the Musical on July 4th but had a couple of days to kill so one of the places we visited was this museum. We ended up there because Miniatur Wunderland, the largest toy train layout in the world, was completely booked so we couldn't get in. (If you want to see Miniatur Wunderland book it online a couple of days before you plan to go.)

The Maritimes Museum is nine floors of exhibits covering everything you would ever want to know about maritime commerce and ships. The most interesting part to me was the top floor that probably has over 80,000 model ships, mostly in 1:1250, many handmade, of ships from around the world, both military and commercial dating back to the first sailing vessels up through modern deep sea submersibles, container ships, tankers and of course warships.



The pic above is just one section. There are over 200' of shelves like this about 6' high. There is also a section on Wiking models who made and sold model ships beginning in the 50s as well as other manufacturers.

There are several dioramas as well in various scales including Soviets under way at sea:



D-Day:



And Pearl Harbor:



The lighting and set up isn't really conducive to taking pictures with an iphone and I was so amazed by everything that I really didn't take as many pictures as I would've liked.

Well worth an afternoon if you get to Hamburg.

[Vergeltungswaffe]

That's awesome.

Thanks for posting about it.

[redleg]

That's pretty awesome Cav Dog! Now I have another museum on my "must visit" list!

[BurtWolf]

Very cool - had not known about it, thanks for sharing!

[chrisswim]

Cav, Thank you for posting these pictures, very nice to see them
Appreciate you doing this.

[andrewsherman]

Wow! They are so cool. I plan to visit this museum next week.