International Maritime Museum Hamburg

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International Maritime Museum Hamburg
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the Kaispeicher B , seat of the museum
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place Hamburg coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 36 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Maritime Museum
architect Wilhelm Emil Meerwein , Bernhard Hanssen ; Mirjana Markovic (renovation)
opening 2008
operator
Peter Tamm sen. Foundation, endowment
management
Peter Tamm jun., Lutz Erntges
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The International Maritime Museum Hamburg (IMMH) is a shipping museum in Kaispeicher B in Hamburg's Speicherstadt . On display is the Peter Tamms collection of objects related to shipping, the core of which are tens of thousands of ship models .

history

The private collection

The museum emerged from Peter Tamm's extensive private collection, which from 1991 after Peter Tamm's retirement under the name “Institute for Shipping and Naval History” was located as a private, non-public museum at Elbchaussee 277 in Hamburg-Othmarschen . Tamm's passion for collecting was based, according to his own statements, on a thumb-sized Wiking waterline model of a coastal freighter on a scale of 1: 1250 that his mother gave him in 1934. The collection was shown to interested parties on request; The institute did not develop any scientific activity.

Establishment of the museum foundation and relocation to Kaispeicher B

The establishment of a public museum was promoted by the then Mayor Ole von Beust . The move to Kaispeicher B was a proposal by the then Hamburg Senator for Finance, Wolfgang Peiner . The Kaispeicher B, built in the style of the Hanover School in 1878/1879 , is Hamburg's oldest preserved storage structure and was last used as a warehouse by the Heinemann brothers' retail company , which is located in the neighboring "Heinemann-Speicher".

The city of Hamburg provided the property to the newly founded Peter Tamm sen. Foundation as heritable building right as well as 30 million euros for the renovation and conversion costs. The decision of the citizens required for this was  passed unanimously , with the GAL parliamentary group abstaining . The foundation has also received endowments and donations from shipping companies and other companies, including Deutsche Bank and Joachim Herz .

The Senate decided not to influence the content of the presentation . In 2005, the campaign “Artists inform politicians” was founded against this approach. She raised the criticism that the exhibition was based on the idea that world history is determined by seafaring ( navalism ). Above all, there is a risk that the presentation will play down militarism and colonialism and not deal critically enough with the history of the German navy .

The museum was opened in 2008 in the presence of the then Federal President Horst Köhler . Since then, the museum has been operated without government funding. The museum foundation has been run by his son Peter Tamm junior since Peter Tamm's death in 2016 . The employees are supported by volunteers, in particular as guides and in the area of ​​ship models. The archive, a library and a display depot are set up on the third floor of the neighboring “Heinemann store”. Today the museum has around 150,000 visitors a year, over 70 percent of whom are tourists.

collection

Models of hospital and hospital ships

Ship models

The core of the collection consists of more than 50,000 ship models from the 20th century, including many on a miniature scale of 1: 1250. The collection also contains some older model ships, including two shipyard models that were used for construction planning before construction drawings were introduced in shipbuilding. Another highlight are 35  bone ships that were made by French sailors during the Napoleonic wars in English captivity in dismantled sailing ships; the world's largest private collection of these ship models. Finally, the collection includes dioramas of sea battles and ports.

Paintings, photographs and plans

Peter Tamm also brought numerous paintings on marine painting from captains to pure seascapes from 1570 to the present day, especially from the Netherlands and German marine painting from the beginning of the 20th century ( Carl Saltzmann , Hans Bohrdt , Willy Stöwer , Claus Bergen and Adolf Bock ). The painting collection participates in international loaning . The collection also contains more than a million photographs on seafaring and shipbuilding.

Equipment, weapons, uniforms and decorations

The Museum Foundation owns an important collection of historical naval uniforms and awards from various countries, as well as an extensive collection of weapons, some of which were created in violation of export and war weapons control regulations. The collection also includes everyday items and equipment, including navigation instruments and part of the estate of Admiral Heinrich von Prussia ("Prince Heinrich").

Books, plans, globes and maps

Construction drawing by William Keltridge.

The library, which comprises tens of thousands of volumes, contains books on seafaring, atlases and thousands of partly original construction plans from shipyards, including a copy of the Liber Nauticus , a textbook for marine painting. William Keltridge's construction drawings are a highlight . The collection also contains historical globes and nautical charts , including a copy of the Atlantis Majoris from 1657, the first marine atlas printed in the Netherlands.

Development and conservation

The collection has not yet been fully indexed. The museum operates an open model workshop as well as a special open bone ship workshop. The conservation of the paintings is shown in a glass restoration studio. The library is open to the public.

Related collections

Related collections are the port history collection of the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte , the fishing history collection of the Altona Museum and, in the area of ​​the port and Speicherstadt itself, the port museum (a branch of the Museum of Labor ), the German Customs Museum and the private spice museum . The establishment of a state German port museum has also been planned since 2015 . In contrast, the International Maritime Museum Hamburg, according to Peter Tamm's saying, "Shipping history is the history of mankind" - as the name also shows and its guidelines define - take an explicitly international perspective.

exhibition

View of the exhibition

The exhibition area in Kaispeicher B covers over 12,000 square meters. The Peter Tamms collection is supplemented by individual loans from other Hamburg museums. For example, the oldest exhibit shown in the museum, a millennia-old dugout canoe from the Elbe near Geesthacht , is on loan from the Archaeological Museum Hamburg and the deep-sea research department shows specimens from deep-sea fish from the zoological collection of the University of Hamburg .

The exhibition is structured according to the floors ("decks") of the storage building:

  • ground floor

In addition to the entrance area, there is a restaurant, the museum shop and the Wede bookstore, which was founded in 1893 and specializes in specialist literature on seafaring .

  • 1. Soil: The discovery of the world
Model of the Queen Mary 2 made of Lego bricks

This area deals with the topics of navigation and communication. Starting with the prehistoric knowledge of seafaring, it goes on to the "epoch of famous explorers" to electronic navigation. Be issued navigational instruments, means of communication, globes and charts, models of lighthouses and lightships , tons and buoys . Finally, the pilotage is dealt with. A ship handling simulator is also on display, which visitors can operate themselves under supervision. On the first floor there is also the special exhibition area, the children's area and the model making workshop.

  • 2. Floor: With the wind around the world: ships under sails

This area covers shipping with sails from the beginnings (European antiquity and Polynesia ) through the Middle Ages and the early modern great powers (China, Spain and Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, England, the Netherlands), colonialism and the sea ​​war between France and England during the Coalition wars . There are also areas for life on board old sailing ships, for piracy , for developing ropes , for the Kaphoorniers and for tall ships and windjammers .

  • 3. Soil: Shipbuilding: from craft to science

On this floor, shipbuilding, based on material science and early ship types as well as construction techniques for today's industrial, scientifically based shipbuilding, is presented. Finally, there is a section on the history of sailing .

  • 4. Floor: Armory of History
Historic ship pharmacy

In this area mainly uniforms, weapons, medals and awards are exhibited. The uncommented exhibition of uniforms, decorations and personal items of high-ranking members of the Navy was highly controversial in the run-up to the museum opening. Life on board is illuminated through rituals and festivals as well as medical care at sea.

  • 5. Soil: War and Peace: The world's navies since 1815

The development towards modern warships via unit ships of the line and the dreadnought class is shown on this floor . There are areas for colonialism, river flotillas, auxiliary cruisers and auxiliary ships , the Skagerrak battle, as well as submarine warfare and naval aviation .

  • 6. Soil: Modern seafaring: commercial and passenger shipping

Based on historical steamers and merchant ships, the development of cargo ships from general cargo to modern container ships is shown, in passenger shipping ferries and seaside resorts , yachts and cruise ships . In addition, the will rescue shown.

  • 7. Soil: Expedition to the Sea: The Earth's Last Secret

This part of the exhibition was developed with the German Marine Research Consortium . Based on the historical roots of oceanography , the exploration of the oceans is presented, in particular the mapping of the seabed .

Bone ship in the "treasury"
  • 8. Floor: marine painting and "treasure chamber"

The painting collection on display is structured by country and shows art from the Netherlands, France, Russia, Great Britain, Scandinavia and Germany. In the “treasure chamber” you can see models made of precious materials as well as the bone vessels.

  • 9. Soil: The big world of small ships
Model of the port of Hamburg

On the last floor around 50,000 miniature models of ships are shown, most of them on a scale of 1: 1250. You can also see dioramas of naval battles and ports. The conclusion is formed by a department on inland shipping and port management as well as a "logistics lounge" from the Kuehne + Nagel company .

  • 10. Floor: event space

The top floor is used as an event location.

In front of the museum and on Sankt-Annen-Platz and Dar-es-Salam-Platz on the other side of Brooktorhafen there are two large anchors, a sea barrel, a beacon, a ship's propeller and two guns from the Foudroyant . The other large objects in the Peter Tamms collection are missing from the exhibition.

Web links

Commons : Internationales Maritime Museum Hamburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Guides and catalogs

On the history of the museum

  • Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship. The International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. Its founder and founder Peter Tamm . Koehler , Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7822-1055-3 .
  • International Maritime Museum Hamburg (ed.): Ten years of the International Maritime Museum . Koehler , Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7822-1322-6 .
  • Friedrich Möwe: Tamm-Tamm. A suggestion for public discussion about the Tamm Museum . Ed .: Information group for armaments deals Hamburg. 5th edition. VSA , 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-306-9 .
  • Tim Holzhäuser: The collection . In: Klaus Schümann (Ed.): Schümann's Hamburger . No. 23 . Klaus Schümann, Hamburg 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Claus Liesner: Common decades . In: Ten Years of the International Maritime Museum . S. 19 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship. S. 28 .
  3. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship . S. 10 .
  4. ↑ Friedrich Möwe: Tamm-Tamm . S. 31 .
  5. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship. S. 59 .
  6. ↑ a b Tim Holzhäuser: The collection . S. 80 .
  7. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship. S. 57 .
  8. ↑ a b Friedrich Möwe: Tamm-Tamm . S. 69, 72 .
  9. ↑ Friedrich Möwe: Tamm-Tamm . S. 6 f .
  10. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship. S. 60 .
  11. ↑ Uwe Grahn: From zero to 97 . In: Ten Years of the International Maritime Museum . S. 46 .
  12. ↑ Lutz Erntges: Ten years - a balance sheet . In: Ten Years of the International Maritime Museum . S. 42 .
  13. ↑ a b c Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship . S. 30 .
  14. ↑ Friedrich Möwe: Tamm-Tamm . S. 53 ff .
  15. ^ Gudrun Müller: How a folklorist found marine painting through menus . In: Ten Years of the International Maritime Museum Hamburg . S. 58 .
  16. ↑ Friedrich Möwe: Tamm-Tamm . S. 52 ff .
  17. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship. S. 32 .
  18. ↑ Axel Grießmer: move . In: Ten Years of the International Maritime Museum Hamburg . S. 48 .
  19. ↑ Tim Holzhäuser: The collection . S. 14 .
  20. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship . S. 160 .
  21. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship . S. 162 .
  22. ↑ Bianca Floss: “Look, you did a great job with the doll, it looks like real! Oh, it moves! ” In: Ten Years of the International Maritime Museum . S. 44 .
  23. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship . S. 56 .
  24. ↑ Matthias Gretzschel: In the beginning there was the ship . S. 54, 166 ff .
  25. ^ Ten years of the International Maritime Museum . S. 30 .
  26. ↑ Christian Tröster u. a .: International Maritime Museum Hamburg. Museum guide .
  27. ↑ Friedrich Möwe: Tamm-Tamm .
  28. ↑ Babette Teichmann: A look out of the window and its consequences . In: Ten Years of the International Maritime Museum Hamburg . S. 68 .
  29. ↑ Christian Tröster u. a .: International Maritime Museum Hamburg. Museum guide . S. 8 f .