Museum ship

This article covers ships that can be visited as museums. For the traditional ship category “museum ship” see there.

Museum ship training ship Germany , Bremen

A museum ship is, in general usage, a ship (possibly also a boat ) that can be visited like a museum .

Most of the museum ships are decommissioned, some of them are still fully functional, older or special ships that are rare or unique in terms of their design or history, or because comparable ships have become rare due to scrapping and other losses. They are either firmly moored on a pier in the water or are exhibited in dry docks or on land, sometimes in their own buildings. A few museum ships are still sailing out and some of them offer occasional rides.

Many museum ships belong to shipping museums such as the German Maritime Museum or associations that take care of the preservation and restoration of the ships.

See also

List of museum ships

literature

• Ingo Heidbrink: Scrap or cultural property. To evaluate historical watercraft from the perspective of the historian. Inventory - assessment - source-appropriate conservation. Lage / Lippe 1994, ISBN 978-3980367417 .

Web links

Commons : Museum ship  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files