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German Maritime Museum

The German Maritime Museum is a museum in , Germany. It is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-president of Germany Walter Scheel, though scientific work already had started in 1971.
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: Maritime museum in Bremerhaven
  • Also known as: “German Shipping Museum”
  • Address: Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1, Bremerhaven, 27568
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include German submarine Wilhelm Bauer and Klimahaus Bremerhaven.

Museum
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is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy, completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. is situated 140 metres north of German Maritime Museum.

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is situated 370 metres northwest of German Maritime Museum.

Scenic viewpoint
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The is a 106-metre reinforced concrete located in , . The radar tower, which was constructed between 1962 and 1965, accommodates numerous transmitting plants for maritime radio purposes, in addition to its radar equipment. is situated 290 metres southeast of German Maritime Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitte and Bremerhaven.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

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is a medium-sized town in the , on the outer Weser in northwestern . It is famous for its large harbour, one of the biggest in Germany for passenger traffic, apart from .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

German Maritime Museum

Latitude
53.54024° or 53° 32′ 25″ north
Longitude
8.57705° or 8° 34′ 37″ east
Open location code
9F5CGHRG+3R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10837431388
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q455354
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “German Maritime Museum”. Photo: Vulkan, CC BY-SA 3.0.