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This book is a handy guide for the visitor to the extraordinary collection of maritime artefacts housed in a former warehouse on the Hamburg waterfront. The collection itself is largely the original private collection of one man, Peter Tamm, that consists of over 40,000 items including model ships, uniforms, ship designs and construction plans, weapons, decorations, a wide variety of maritime art and curiosities, such as cruise ship menus. Each of the 10 floors of the magnificent neo-Gothic building, originally built in 1878, and opened as a museum 130 years later in 2008, is devoted to a specific theme, for instance: * Explorers, navigation and communications * The development of shipbuilding and engineering * Sailing ships, life on naval vessels, piracy and merchant shipping * Maritime art and ship models Of particular interest for British visitors, the museum`s archive houses over 150 letters from Lord Horatio Nelson, and the reproduction of the `James Caird`, the small life-boat from Shackleton`s Trans-Antarctic Exhibition used by the German explorer Arved Fuchs when he re-lived the journey in 2000.Product Identifiers
PublisherKoehlers Verlagsgsellschaft
ISBN-139783782212588
eBay Product ID (ePID)6046709418
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SubjectHistory
Publication Year2019
Number of Pages200 Pages
Publication NameInternational Maritime Museum Hamburg, Guide to
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristian Troster
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Width170 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
Title_AuthorChristian Troster
TopicTravel Guide, Ships
