Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

Eine Dampferfahrt machen das Größte für Hamburger Jungs und Deerns.


Echte "Dampfer" gibt es allerdings gar nicht mehr. Der "Dampfer Werner" war das letzte fahrende deutsche Dampfschiff. Und doch ist es heute noch möglich mit eben diesem Schiff eine Hafenrundfahrt zu machen. In einem Bereich des Hamburg Museums ist nämlich der komplette Brückenbereich des Dampfers inklusive Kapitänskajüte, Messe und Kombüse aufgebaut. Und von der Kommandobrücke aus kann der Besucher einen Farbfilm sehen, der 1938 im Hamburger Hafen gedreht wurde und das Gefühl einer tatsächlichen Hafenrundfahrt vermittelt.
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Dabei war der Dampfer Werner nun wirklich kein besonderes Schiff. Er transportierte Waren über die Nordsee, nur eine Handvoll Männer waren an Bord. Doch atmosphärisch hat der Ausstellungsbereich wirklich eine interessante Ausstrahlung. Wenn ich in den Funkraum, die Messe und die Kombüse blicke und dann weiter auf die Brücke gehe ist das für mich eindrucksvoller, als jedes Schiffsmodell von Herrn Tamm. Ich spüre sogar jedes Mal ein leichtes Schaukeln und meine Nordseeluft zu riechen ein gelungenes Stück Museum!
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The museum itself is a nice museum with a lot of interesting things, but after seeing the miniature wonderland and the maritime museum, I had more than enough miniature buildings and boats. Only was able to stay 15 minutes before I couldn't take anymore of it.

I have been to Hamburg so many times that I thought I knew the city.

Apparently, I can't be further away from being wrong. This museum - that is located on beautiful park with idyllic lake teaches you all about Hamburg and its history. It's located not far from U-bahn stop St. Pauli, so it can't get any easier than that, not to mention it's not far should you be interested to check out all the "interesting" entertainment on the infamous Reeperbahn.

Again, dragged by my history and museum geek boyfriend, I came here by force (if not by free will) although I wasn't literally kicking and screaming. If it were up to me, I'd rather spend my time at Monckebergstrasse, but oh well - I guess a little history won't hurt.

This museum has very interesting models of pretty much everything in Hamburg. At least you won't be bored by history by looking at interesting teeny weeny intricate models. It taught you what Hamburg really was back then when some Christian missionaries (and bishops) chose to settle here and named the town Hammaburg. It's almost like reading it on wikipedia, but with a lot of cute models. See? not boring.

The layout of the museum was cool too and they had a room full of model ships just like in Copenhagen's Orlogsmuseet, and the most cool about this museum is that on the top floor, they have a working railway model of Hamburg in the scale of 1:32. That was amazing to watch. They did have people operating the trains and all. I felt like I went back to my childhood again.

On the basement floor they had small exhibition of what Hamburg was like under Nazi reign, along with recreation of shops, places under World War II. Very interesting.

All in all, a very interesting place to visit, especially if you're interested about history.

...and oh, did you know that Reeperbahn literally means the rope way? It's where back in the yore they made ropes for the ships. See? More knowledge of history here! I'm getting like 1% smarter than before... :P

Price is a little steep at 9 euro but it does provide for a couple hours of an iinteresting audio guided tour of Hamburg history in your language. Start on the middle floor and turn left after going up the first flight of stairs. This will start you at the beginning of Hamburg and will then take you around up until around 1900. The 20th century is on the lower floor and the period of world war 2 is somewhat hidden below that. (That area in particular needs narration and better information on Hamburg's history during that time).