German Harbor Museum

The historic four-masted steel barque Beijing is to become one of the exhibits at the German Harbor Museum.

The German Port Museum is a planned museum in Hamburg , which will be dedicated to the history and historical and current role of the German ports using the example of the Port of Hamburg . The opening is planned between 2023 Template: future / in 3 yearsand 2025.

The establishment of the museum is supervised by the cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City, advice on content is provided by the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation , which is responsible for the Museum of Hamburg History , the Museum of Labor in Barmbek and the Altona Museum with their respective branches are located.

Possible locations for the museum are today's port museum ...

... the landing stages ...

... and the areas next to the musical theaters in the harbor.

Partially restored Beijing in July 2019

Location

Various locations were initially considered for the museum, all of which are in the port or in its immediate vicinity:

the location of today's harbor museum in the historic 1950s shed on Kleiner Grasbrook
an area west of the northern entrance to the Old Elbe Tunnel at the landing bridges
an area next to the musical theaters on the southern bank of the Norderelbe opposite the landing stages

The decision for one of the locations should be made in spring 2017. Finally, in December 2017, it was announced that the three proposed locations each had disadvantages. The area west of the landing stages is too limited for the development potential for such a museum, the other two areas are not eligible for approval due to "accident operations" in the neighborhood.

An area at the Übersee-Zentrum on the Kleiner Grasbrook, which was used by HHLA until 2016, has now been selected as the future location . The area is currently being completely redesigned with a view to the construction of a new “Grasbrook” district. In February 2019, the location question was still unresolved, but was confirmed in May 2019.

Ursula Richenberger is the project manager of the German Harbor Museum.

Museum dates

The museum is said to have an area of 7,000 square meters. Around 300,000 visitors per year are planned. The basic collection for the German Harbor Museum will come from around 10,000 exhibits from the previous Harbor Museum in historical sheds 50 to 52.

In March 2017, the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation called on citizens to donate “maritime toys” (small ships, cranes and figures) for an art installation.

financing

The construction of the museum is supported by the federal government with 120 million euros. 38.5 million euros of this had already been used for the transfer and renovation of the historic four-masted steel barque Beijing , which had been restored in the Peters shipyard in Wewelsfleth since August 2017 and transferred to Hamburg on September 7, 2020. Originally, EUR 26 million had been approved for Beijing .

The funds were approved by the budget committee of the German Bundestag at its meeting on November 12, 2015.

Personnel and operating costs of the museum are to be borne by the Free and Hanseatic City.

criticism

In February 2017 criticized Maximilian Probst in time , the German port museum is a "drastic mistake". Hamburg already has five museums on maritime topics. In particular, the existing International Maritime Museum should be conceptually realigned instead of another museum . SPD politician Johannes Kahrs responded in March 2017 with a plea for the 50s shed as the location of the future German Harbor Museum. In the spring of 2017, the Hamburg Academy for Architectural Culture , under the direction of the architect Volkwin Marg, developed five drafts for the port museum, which define the architectural possibilities for a new building at the location on Kleiner Grasbrook, which was also favored in this context.

Web links

Homepage of the German Harbor Museum
Deutsches Hafenmuseum: What should it look like? , Hamburg Journal , October 20, 2016
Kilian Trotier: Hamburg Harbor Museum: “A place of romantic longing” , interview with Börries von Notz in der Zeit , December 14, 2015
Matthias Gretzschel : A new lighthouse for the Hamburg museum world. Hamburger Abendblatt , November 13, 2015, accessed on March 27, 2017.
First visions for the new port museum. Architecture students present their designs on the Rainvilleterrassen campus. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 24, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2017.
Video interview with Ursula Richenberger, the project manager for the German Harbor Museum , museumsfernsehen, February 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b German Harbor Museum: An idea becomes reality. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .

↑ ^a ^b Hamburger Abendblatt : Harbor Museum: The location should be fixed in spring. December 6, 2016, accessed December 6, 2016 .

↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: "ÜZ" gives way to the German port museum · The million dollar project is to be built on Kleiner Grasbrook . In: Daily port report of December 20, 2017, p. 2

↑ What to do with the German Harbor Museum?

↑ German Harbor Museum is being built on Grasbrook

↑ German Harbor Museum with "Peking" gets two locations

↑ WeltN24 : Visit to a museum that doesn't yet exist , March 30, 2017

^ Hamburger Abendblatt : German Harbor Museum is urgently looking for maritime toys , March 11, 2017