The Museum of Ancient Seafaring (german: Museum für antike Schifffahrt) was installed in

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in 1994 in the former central covered market (before railway repair shop of the

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) near the South Station, nowadays

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, as a branch of the

Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz) Romano-Germanic may refer to: *Romano-Germanic culture of ancient Germanic peoples subject to the Roman Empire *Romano-Germanic law, a family of legal systems *Romano-Germanic Empire, more commonly called the Holy Roman Empire *Romano-Germanic Museu ...

. The new archaeological center is built right beside the current museum building.Archaeological Center Mainz, Competition 1st prize
/ref> A workshop is affiliated to the museum, where visitors have the opportunity to watch the staff replicate ancient ship models.

History

Due to the fact that in 1981/82 during construction works near the

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river well-preserved remains of several ships from

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, the so said Mainzer Roman ships were discovered, an adequate exhibition space for these was required. There were discovered two different types of warship of late Roman Rhine fleet ″Classis Germanica″ and other ship types.

Literature

* Barbara Pferdehirt, ''Das Museum für antike Schifffahrt. Ein Forschungsbericht des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums''. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 1995, . * Ronald Bockius, ''Die spätrömischen Schiffswracks aus Mainz. Schiffsarchäologisch-technikgeschichtliche Untersuchung spätantiker Schiffsfunde vom nördlichen Oberrhein'', Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz 2006, .

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