Elbtorquartier

Project 40: International Maritime Museum

Investor: -

Contact: Peter Tamm Sen. Stiftung, Tel. 040-30092300, info@peter-tamm-sen.de, www.internationales-maritimes-museum.de

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Architect: Wilhelm Emil Meerwein/Berhard Hanssen, Hamburg | MRLV Markovic Ronai Voss Architekten, Hamburg

Use: approx. 12.000 sq.m GFA, exibition space, museum, shop, coffee bar, Restaurant Austernbar

User: -

Development status: completed

Three thousand years of maritime history is told on the ten decks of the museum that opened in the former grain warehouse in June 2008 (© ELBE&FLUT)

An overarching role in the neighborhood is played by the three major cultural institutions in HafenCity: one of the cultural landmarks, the International Maritime Museum Hamburg, opened its doors in the summer of 2008. It took up residence in Kaispeicher B, a warehouse dating from 1879 (architects: Wilhelm Emil Meerwein, Bernhard Hanssen); it is actually the oldest warehouse in HafenCity and the Speicherstadt.

From the summer of 2005, architect Mirjana Markovic had extensively renovated the warehouse at Elbtorquartier, converting it into a museum but leaving its characteristic architecture intact. A small mall, accommodating a museum shop, a restaurant and a bistro, now runs through the ground floor. The Museumsbrücke bridge leads directly from the Speicherstadt into this passageway.

The ten floors or "decks" of the museum, covering 11,500 sq. m, house an exhibition based on the private collection of Professor Peter Tamm, consisting of model ships, design plans for ships, as well as a multitude of nautical devices, paintings and drawings. Kaispeicher B and its adjacent building also accommodate the Institute of Shipping and Marine History and a library, including an archive.