German Naval Museum
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| place | Wilhelmshaven |
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| opening | 1998 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 100,000 |
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German Naval Museum Foundation
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-974312 |
The German Marine Museum in Wilhelmshaven is the development of the German military seafaring since 1848. The focus of the museum is on the presentation of the German Navy / Deutsche Marine . It has existed since 1998 and is privately owned .
location
The museum is located between the connecting port and the south beach promenade in the immediate vicinity of the landmark of the city of Wilhelmshaven, the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge . The museum is housed in the building of the former “Scheibenhofwerkstatt” on 125 south beach. The Scheibenhofwerkstatt is a listed remnant of the torpedo yard of the Imperial Shipyard, built around 1888 . Attached to the museum is an approximately 3000 m² outdoor area with berths directly at the connecting port.
exhibition
The museum offers three exhibition areas:
- Permanent exhibition with the motto "People, Times, Ships". It shows the development of German naval history. In addition to militaria , such as uniforms, ship bells, flags, bridge equipment and paintings, an extensive collection of models of various German naval ships is shown. From 2009 to 2010, the permanent exhibition was completely redesigned while maintaining the motto "People, Times, Ships". In three epoch rooms, it now shows the history of the German navy in a political, social and cultural context. The chronological tour begins in room 1 on the "long 19th century", deals in room 2 with the history of the navies in the age of the world wars and ends in room 3 with the history of the navies in the alliance, which includes both the history of the two German navies in the Cold War as well as the history of today's German navy to the present. In the new entrance area, which opened in 2010, a restored miniature submarine seal from the Second World War is on display, which was previously in the open-air area. Beside the boat, personal equipment that was found on the wreck can be seen in a floor display case . A DM2A heavyweight torpedo from Atlas Elektronik is also on display.
- Outdoor area. On land, in addition to smaller exhibits such as guns, mines and torpedoes, an F-104 "Starfighter" fighter-bomber , a Libelle-class speedboat of the Volksmarine of the GDR, a tug with Voith-Schneider propulsion and a submarine of the class 205 issued. The latter is accessible. The “Weilheim” , a minehunter of the Lindau class , a missile speedboat of the cheetah class , and the guided missile destroyer Mölders , which was given to the museum on permanent loan from the military technical study collection of the Bundeswehr, are also accessible in the harbor basin . The former sailing school boat Nordwind , which was acquired in October 2008, will be kept as a navigable museum ship with a volunteer crew.
- Special exhibitions on changing maritime and marine topics. In recent years, the focus has been on exhibitions on topics related to the First World War and its prehistory. Most recently (2018) the exhibition "The sea revolutionizes the land" on the role of the navy in the revolution of 1918/19 was shown. For this purpose, an information trail was set up in the city together with the city of Wilhelmshaven, providing information about ten local events in the course of the revolution at nine stations.
In addition, the museum organizes lectures on its premises and offers harbor tours with its own launches.
history
The museum goes back to an initiative of the city of Wilhelmshaven in 1986. In 1988 the "Förderverein Deutsches Marinemuseum eV" was founded. However, no common concept could be found between these two, so that the museum was finally founded in 1998 by the friends' association alone. The museum was sponsored by the sponsoring association until 2002, when it was transferred to the newly established “ Stiftung Deutsches Marinemuseum”.
The museum is largely financed from funds from the Friends' Association, from subsidies and from the entrance fees of around 100,000 annual visitors. The German Navy itself owns a small museum in the commander's villa in Flensburg - Mürwik , which is primarily used to train the Mürwik naval school there .
The German Naval Museum has been continuously expanded since its inception. Important milestones are the start of harbor tours (1999), the construction of an extension for special exhibitions (2000), acquisition and presentation of the guided missile destroyer Mölders as a museum ship (2005), acquisition of the Nordwind as a floating exhibit (2008) and the expansion of the museum building including the redesign of the permanent exhibition (2010). In 2016, another museum boat, the S71 Gepard speed boat, was added to the collection and exhibited.
Since 2010, the museum has been a cooperation partner of the University of Oldenburg in the interdisciplinary master’s course in museums and exhibitions.
In 2011 the museum was included in the museum register of the State of Lower Saxony and was awarded a prize by the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation for the scientific quality of its permanent exhibition . In 2019 it was awarded the museum seal of approval by the Museumsverband Niedersachsen und Bremen eV.
In 2018, the museum was promised federal funding to expand and redesign the permanent exhibition.
controversy
In the founding phase, the museum was accused by some critics of dealing with military issues with little criticism. In order to achieve high visitor numbers and thus secure the financing, the selection and presentation of the objects is primarily geared towards the value of experience. This would encourage an unreflected “fascination with weapons”. Others, on the other hand, criticize the fact that the work of the German Navy (formerly known as the Bundesmarine) is portrayed too much and that of the Imperial Navy and the Kriegsmarine, which are significantly more important in terms of numbers and history, is too little .
literature
- Michael Halama (Red.): 10 years of the German Naval Museum, 20 years of the Friends' Association. Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2008.
- Dieter Hartwig: The German Naval Museum Wilhelmshaven. Opened on April 24, 1998. in: Marine Forum. Vol. 73 (1998), 5, pp. 6-7.
- Harry Jacobsen: The German Naval Museum in Wilhelmshaven. in: Ship model. Trade journal for ship model builders, construction and driving practice for all branches. Vol. 24, 2001, 8, pp. 53-55.
- Friedrich A. Meyer: German Naval Museum in Wilhelmshaven on the road to success. in: Köhler's fleet calendar. 88: 47-50 (2000).
- Ellen Mosebach-Tegtmeiner: Symposium German Marine Museum. Documentation 19./20. September 1988. City of Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven 1988.
- Exhibition guide People - Times - Ships. German Navy Museum Wilhelmshaven, with contributions by Stephan Huck, Stefan Iglhaut and Hajo Neumann, Wilhelmshaven 2013.
Web links
- Museum website
- The museum on the website of the city of Wilhelmshaven
- History and exhibition ( Memento from July 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) from page 25 (PDF; 939 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Revolution 1918 on wilhelmshaven.de
- ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : 10,000 exhibits directly on the water , dated: June 28, 2013, accessed on: October 31, 2015
- ^ Nine museums awarded a seal of approval by ndr.de on February 6, 2019
- ↑ Gerd Abeldt: Millions from the federal government for the naval museum. In: wzonline. November 9, 2018, accessed March 27, 2019 .
- ^ Criticism of the concept of the museum ( memento of October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by Gegenwind WHV
Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 47 " N , 8 ° 8 ′ 26" E