Hamburg Museums etc.
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For anyone interested in Ships:
I have visited the Hamburg Maritime Museum a couple of times, it is very impressive. It's only been open a couple of years. It's based on the private collection of ship models of a local shipping line owner, but isn't just about models. The museum is housed on 9 floors of a newly refurbished warehouse, and the top floor is FULL of glass cases with thousand upon thousand of tiny ship models. If you like ships and models, this alone will stop you in your tracks! There is a glass enclosed section in which the model makers for the museum work - these guys are artists. They are very friendly and were only too happy to show me around their workshop and discuss modelling in general.
http://www.internationales-maritimes-museum.de/
Also in the same area of the city is the new car museum. Its a small museum, heavily biased towards Porsche, but it is well worth a look.
http://www.prototyp-hamburg.de/
Hamburg is a very nice city too, with loads to see including the Blohm and Voss Shipyards and the Airbus factory (and the architecture, culture blah blah). Obviously loads of 'history': among other things, the Flack Towers still exist from the war. Part of one of them is a restaurant now. Apparently they were too massive and problematic to demolish (both by the RAF and subsequently), so they left them standing.
Cheers,
I have visited the Hamburg Maritime Museum a couple of times, it is very impressive. It's only been open a couple of years. It's based on the private collection of ship models of a local shipping line owner, but isn't just about models. The museum is housed on 9 floors of a newly refurbished warehouse, and the top floor is FULL of glass cases with thousand upon thousand of tiny ship models. If you like ships and models, this alone will stop you in your tracks! There is a glass enclosed section in which the model makers for the museum work - these guys are artists. They are very friendly and were only too happy to show me around their workshop and discuss modelling in general.
http://www.internationales-maritimes-museum.de/
Also in the same area of the city is the new car museum. Its a small museum, heavily biased towards Porsche, but it is well worth a look.
http://www.prototyp-hamburg.de/
Hamburg is a very nice city too, with loads to see including the Blohm and Voss Shipyards and the Airbus factory (and the architecture, culture blah blah). Obviously loads of 'history': among other things, the Flack Towers still exist from the war. Part of one of them is a restaurant now. Apparently they were too massive and problematic to demolish (both by the RAF and subsequently), so they left them standing.
Cheers,
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