Museum of the German Inland Shipping

The former indoor swimming pool, built by August Jording between 1908 and 1910 , is now home to the Museum of German Inland Shipping (2015)

Museum exhibits

Museum ship Oscar Huber

The Museum of German Inland Shipping , founded in 1974, is located in the Ruhrort district of Duisburg , the nucleus of the Duisburg-Ruhrort ports , which today form the largest European inland port complex.

With the purchase of the museum ship Oscar Huber in 1974, the Society for the Promotion of the Museum of German Inland Shipping reached its first milestone. In 1979 the first collection moved into the former Ruhrort town hall. In 1998, as part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA), the company moved to the former Ruhrort indoor swimming pool, which means that the numerous exhibits relating to the technical, economic and social history of inland shipping have found a home appropriate to the size of the collection.

In the former men's swimming pool is the Dutch Tjalk Goede Verwachting, a cargo sailing ship with hoisted sails from 1913. In the women's swimming pool, a walk-in replica of a barge is exhibited, which can be used as a play ship and as an event area. The main theme in this hall is life and work on board.

Close to the museum, at the Steiger Schifferbörse , there are three museum ships, two of which can be visited:

They are open to visitors from Easter to the beginning of October. The third ship is the crane ship Fendel 147, which is currently being prepared for inspection. The Museum of German Inland Shipping is part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

literature

Bernhard Weber: How do you capture movement? The Museum of German Inland Shipping and its archive. In: Archive and Economy. Zeitschrift für das Archivwesen der Wirtschaft , 47 (2014), pp. 125–130.

Web links

Commons : Museum of German Inland Shipping - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Page with a photo of the freighter exhibited in the museum ( Memento from January 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on metropoleruhr.de (accessed on January 9, 2018)

51.46 6.73Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '36 " N , 6 ° 43' 48" E

[1] Page with a photo of the freighter exhibited in the museum ( Memento from January 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on metropoleruhr.de (accessed on January 9, 2018)