Kiel Maritime Museum (German - ''Schifffahrtsmuseum Kiel'') is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

in the

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city of

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...

. It was established in 1978 in what had been the fish-auction hall in the Sartorikai area of the city. It shows the

maritime history Maritime history is the study of human interaction with and activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant. As an academic subject, it ...

of Kiel. In front of the museum is the lantern of the ''Alexander von Humboldt'' lightship, and docked nearby are the rescue boat ''Hindenburg'', the

fireboat A fireboat or fire-float is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats, retrofitted with firefighting equipmen ...

''Kiel'', the

passenger ship A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freig ...

''Stadt Kiel'', and the

buoy tender A buoy tender is a type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational buoys. This term can also apply to an actual person who does this work. The United States Coast Guard uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missions of main ...

''Bussard'', all now

museum ship A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, mostly for the small numb ...

s. File:Kiel Museumsbrücke Museumsschiff MRB Hindenburg ehem DGzRS Bj 1944 - Foto 2010 Wolfgang Pehlemann Steinberg Ostsee IMG 5824.jpg, Rescue boat ''Hindenburg'' File:Schifffahrtsmuseum Kiel 2014f.jpg, Fireboat ''Keil'' File:Stadt Kiel (ship, 1934) msu2017-9093.jpg, Passenger ship ''Stadt Keil'' File:Matthias Suessen Kiel-6588.jpg, Buoy tender ''Bussard''

External links

Kieler Schifffahrtsmuseum Fischhallemuseen am meer in der Landeshauptstadt Kiel

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