Esbjerg Fisheries and Maritime Museum
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Esbjerg , Denmark 
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| opening | April 1968 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | > 100,000 |
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The Fisheries and Maritime Museum ( Danish Fiskeri- og Søfartmuseet ) is a museum in Esbjerg that deals with the historical and contemporary fishing , shipping and offshore industries.
The museum
The museum has been modernized and expanded several times and is celebrating its 50th birthday in 2018 with two special exhibitions. It offers good wheelchair access to all areas and exhibitions in the museum, the aquarium , the seal pool and the café and does not charge admission for children under 18 years of age. The Fisheries and Maritime Museum is a tourist attraction in Denmark with daily seal feedings at 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. and has well over 100,000 visitors annually.
The museum's cultural history collection contains around 16,800 items related to the Danish shipping and Danish offshore industry. There is also an extensive photo collection of ships and fishing. The collection of fishing equipment contains around 2,000 objects. The collections cover the period of the 19th and 20th centuries.
history
The museum opened in April 1968 and initially began focusing on Danish deep sea and coastal fishing. From the beginning there was a saltwater aquarium, which was expanded in 1976 with a tank for seals. Shipping was later also included.
In 1989, an outdoor area was built with natural-sized fishermen's huts and wooden cutters, a harbor landscape and shipyard with an active blacksmith, rescue station and many fishing equipment. The outdoor area was continuously expanded and later supplemented with a playground on the subject of fishing and shipping.
In 1994 the museum set up a research unit that has been working with the University of Southern Denmark since 2000 under the name CME (Center for Maritime and Business History).
In 2000 there was an expansion with a new permanent exhibition to around 2,000 m². The premises of the library, the stores and the offices also benefited from this expansion. In 2002 the sea water aquarium was renovated and enlarged to a water volume of around 500,000 liters. It contains a 15 m long underwater window. In 2013 and 2014, the outdoor area was supplemented by another salt water pool and a petting pool and a Wadden Sea pavilion was built.
photos
Whale skeleton in front of the museum
Model of an oil rig
Rearing tank for small seals
View through the underwater window into the seal pool
playground
Web links
- Museum website (Danish, German, English)