Hamburg Maritime Museum Visit.
Discussion
Got chance to visit one of my favourite museums at Christmas: Hamburg's Maritime Museum. Believe it or not it houses the private collection of models from one - very wealthy - man. Pictures aren't great beacuse you're not supposed to use flash (did for some), and I discovered half way around that the camera lens was covered in some kind of jam or marmalade residue. This is just a tiny part of the contents of the 11 floors:
Cap Arcona - tragic story. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cap_Arcona_%281927... ]
Amazing model building workshop.
Humungous Lego QM2.
Scratch built "Bismark" made IIRC by one of the senior engineers at Blohm&Voss (or it might have been an engineer on the ship). Either way it's an incredible bit of work, mostly from scrap brass sheet.
Enigma machine.
I could look at the details of these models all day.
Rolls-Royce turbine.
Some simple steam engine models.
Floating dry dock.
The Britannic.
Christmas tree from the Admiral Scheer. Seasonal.
WW1 torpedo motor.
Graf Zeppelin carrier.
Huge Bismark and Swordfish (1:48, 1:32 ?)
More huge models.
Incredible collection of tiny resin ships.
The first of the collection, lead to this:
Overwhelming number of models to take in.
...and not forgetting maritime aircraft.
and more...ships.
Unbelievable paper model ship display.
Model of port of Bremerhaven...all of it.
A few offshore models too, including some I was involved with in the 1:1 world.
This museum is just around the corner, but that's a whole different thread...
Cap Arcona - tragic story. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cap_Arcona_%281927... ]
Amazing model building workshop.
Humungous Lego QM2.
Scratch built "Bismark" made IIRC by one of the senior engineers at Blohm&Voss (or it might have been an engineer on the ship). Either way it's an incredible bit of work, mostly from scrap brass sheet.
Enigma machine.
I could look at the details of these models all day.
Rolls-Royce turbine.
Some simple steam engine models.
Floating dry dock.
The Britannic.
Christmas tree from the Admiral Scheer. Seasonal.
WW1 torpedo motor.
Graf Zeppelin carrier.
Huge Bismark and Swordfish (1:48, 1:32 ?)
More huge models.
Incredible collection of tiny resin ships.
The first of the collection, lead to this:
Overwhelming number of models to take in.
...and not forgetting maritime aircraft.
and more...ships.
Unbelievable paper model ship display.
Model of port of Bremerhaven...all of it.
A few offshore models too, including some I was involved with in the 1:1 world.
This museum is just around the corner, but that's a whole different thread...
great stuff, I was there a few years back and remember the car museum but I don't think I remember seeing any maritime museum there. I did however find a lovely one up north in Rostock, good aquarium too.
Hamburg is great though, did you come across a submarine museum? We never found it despite being marked on the map
Hamburg is great though, did you come across a submarine museum? We never found it despite being marked on the map
escortwagon said:
Hamburg is great though, did you come across a submarine museum? We never found it despite being marked on the map
It is a great city.Yes I've been to the submarine 'museum' (it's actually a real Russian submarine moored further up the river):
Very, very good tour. I was slightly alarmed when the lights kept going out, but apart from that I loved it. I thought the fact that they had a ship's psychiatrist said a lot about the Russian recruitmant system though...
dr_gn said:
perdu said:
That's an amazing museum G, great pictures considering, too.
Almost makes me wish I had gone sightseeing for different things when I had a one afternoon/evening visit back in '75
almost
You went to the Reeperbahn didn't you Perdu?Almost makes me wish I had gone sightseeing for different things when I had a one afternoon/evening visit back in '75
almost
mrmaggit said:
dr_gn said:
perdu said:
That's an amazing museum G, great pictures considering, too.
Almost makes me wish I had gone sightseeing for different things when I had a one afternoon/evening visit back in '75
almost
You went to the Reeperbahn didn't you Perdu?Almost makes me wish I had gone sightseeing for different things when I had a one afternoon/evening visit back in '75
almost
Hmm possibly but if that was the street with a gate on it we didn't bother...
But hey, what're a bunch of squaddies out on the lash supposed to do with a six hour trip to a strange city?
We found lots of friendly bars where folks were tumbling over themselves to help us spend our deutschmarks quickly.
Odd places with unusual dress codes.
And one with a curtained room where a mate of ours vanished for fifteen minutes with a rather surly young lady
Still he looked happy when we met up again, has a few tales to tell when he returned to his wee village in the Kingdom of Fife. Or maybe not.
But I dunno if it was the Reeperbahn, the main street was full of brightly lit places that offered meetings with Eros, whoever he was...
But after all that jesting I realised that there's a whole lot more to Hamburg than boozy squaddies ever see, one day I will go back. On my own money.
The museums look fabulous, well worth a day or so on their own.
Is the Maritime Museum in the same area as Miniatur Wunderland?
S. Gonzales Esq. said:
Is the Maritime Museum in the same area as Miniatur Wunderland?
It certainly is.Gassing Station | Scale Models | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff