page_title: Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg
section_title: Interior and contents
hierarchical_section_title: Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg / Interior and contents
caption_attribution_description: Internationales Maritimes Museum in Hamburg im Kaispeicher B, Innenraum des Museums vor der Eröffnung
context_page_description: The Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg is a private museum in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The museum houses Peter Tamm's collection of model ships, construction plans, uniforms, and maritime art, amounting to over 40,000 items and more than one million photographs. It opened in a former warehouse in 2008.
context_section_description: The collection contains predominantly samples from the private collection of Peter Tamm and was severely criticised in the media for the lack of distance and historical awareness toward the German U-Boat war, the German sea war during World War II, and German colonial history. Some critics changed their opinion later.
  The walkabout starts with a 3,000-year-old dugout, which was found in the Elbe river. Another exhibit is the baton of Großadmiral Karl Dönitz (1891–1945), displayed in an article about the Nuremberg Trials in the newspaper Berliner Zeitung of 1946. This article describes the sentences against the Nazi war criminals. The exhibition of the baton was often taken as an example of the lack of historical awareness about Nazi propaganda and the lack of distance toward Nazi symbolism, without challenging it. Further the exhibition consists of paintings with a naval or marine theme, model ships made of whale bones or ivory, weapons, uniforms, and decorations. Also the reproduction of the James Caird, the small lifeboat of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, used by the German explorer Arved Fuchs in a relived journey in 2000, is displayed. The museum's archive also possesses 47 original letters of Lord Horatio Nelson, famous for his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, and 15,000 cruise ship menus.
  The collection shows more than 36,000 items on 12,000 m² (130,000 sq ft).
  10th floor: Cultural Forum "10th Longitude", special exhibitions
  9th floor: The big world of ship models, water sports
  8th floor: Maritime Art (art gallery and "treasure trove")
  7th floor: marine research, energy and fisheries
  6th floor: merchant shipping, cruise and ports
  5th floor: navies of the world (from 1815 to present)
  4th floor: life on naval vessels, ship's armament
  3rd floor: The development of shipbuilding and engineering
  2nd floor: sailing ships - from antiquity to the Hanse Sail, Cape Horniers and piracy
  1st floor: explorers, navigation, communications and children's area
  Ground floor: foyer, reception area, restaurant and museum shop
  In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum also has presented several special shows including, for example, one about the Vikings.
caption: Renovated interior of the museum before the opening in 2008
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