International Maritime Museum Hamburg

The mother of all maritime museums. You get to immerse yourself in all things marine over a full 9 stories in a gorgeous historic building. No review can do this place justice. Suffice to say, if you're interested in ocean-going vessels and naval history, you'll appreciate that tickets are full-day so you can come and go as you wish. Don't miss the 9th floor with some 50,000 tiny ship models. Overall, highly recommended.

The International Maritime Museum in Hamburg is a fascinating destination for anyone interested in maritime history. Spread across nine floors in a historic warehouse, the museum showcases an impressive collection of ship models, artifacts, and exhibits on naval exploration, trade, and modern maritime technology. Highlights include intricate ship models and interactive experiences like the virtual ship simulator. The museum's location near the harbor and its unique architecture add to its charm, while the friendly staff make the visit even more enjoyable. It’s an engaging and educational experience, perfect for history buffs and families alike. Highly recommended!

A real highlight. Extensive collection covering any aspect auf marine history. Great variety of topics and beautifully displayed exhibits. The collection is simply huge. Allocate yourself enough time to be able to cover your interests.

You can see a variety of ships even how ships are built from piece wise steps. It has 10 floors to visit. Each floor represents one theme about their engine building, architectures, tools and many more. For students, there are student discounts available and the rest of people can utilise respective discounts. Worth it to go.

One of the best museums I've ever visited. It has the example of all different ships through the history, and beautiful paintings. Definitely go and visit. It took us several hours to see all the storeys😁

This museum houses multiple floors of boat-related exhibits. There's even an area dedicated to animals on boats. The miniatures are expertly and labour-intensively made by on-site model makers.

If you are interested in boats and history this is the place for you! Very cool place with 9 floors of exhibits. To suit any enthusiasts. This includes miniatures, paintings and historical documents and clothes. Family ticket includes 4 children, thank you maritime museum for not discrimination of families with 4 kids.

Such a beautiful museum and also the cafe is so nice to be there

Great museum about the history of sailing and ocean shipping. Exhibits from ancient times until now.

This is one of the largest and most well maintained museums I've ever been to. Absolutely an essential part of your trip to Hamburg if you're even remotely interested in anything maritime related. This includes vikings, trade routes, slave trade, explorers, war ships, cargo shipping, harbour building, pirates, marine animals, fishing, treasures, ship wrecks and much more! The exhibitions stretch over nine stories with additional smaller exhibitions on various sub-floors in between. We didn't have enough time to visit every single room, but everything I saw was super well presented, interesting and dynamic. There are tours at various times in various areas as well as presentations throughout the different floors. We happened to walk in on a presentation of a container ship simulator that let you slowly, painstakingly experience what it's like to drive a large container ship along a canal leading to the harbour. It's slow. It's arduous. I thought it was incredibly boring (the simulator, not the presentation) but apparently people spend hours at home playing with these simulators. And enjoy it. For some reason. I loved the miniature ship exhibition. Thousands of miniature ships spanning several centuries of ship building and design. The piracy exhibit was also quite interesting, while the rooms on the slave trade (including a piece of an actual slave ship showing shakles and chains) and plague ships were quite harrowing though still really well presented. All the history of human activity on the seven seas seems to be brought together in this amazing building. The cafe downstairs is also reasonably priced for a museum cafe and very beautifully designed. We really enjoyed our trip to this museum.

If nine floors of model ships floats your boat, you'll love this museum. If not, I'd give it a miss.

Best museum I have ever visited and my background is in heritage preservation and anthropology so I have seen a lot of museums. Beautiful building which houses 10 floors of what used to be a private collection. The layout, design, and thoughtful displays are amazing! Great children's section on every floor where kids can interact with displays. Each floor is themed starting with cultures earliest interaction with the sea. Navigation, ship building, art, miniatures, sea life, a gigantic lego ship....sooo much stuff. This was one of the most pleasurable museums to walk around, it is serene and dim inside which really sets an amazing mood.

Can't believe I am the first one to write a review on this world-class museum! International Maritime Museum in Hamburg has information on absolutely everything related to maritime history of the world: from Vikings to Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The museum was opened in summer 2008 as a home to the biggest in the world private maritime collection. And believe me, this collection is enormous: 10 storeys filled with boat models, sea maps, navy uniforms, weapons, mini boat models and much much more. In fact it is so overwhelming, that I could hardly manage the last storey. Information provided on English as well, there are a lot of 'interaction points' so that you don't get bored. The entry is not cheap but it's so worth it. In two words: highly recommended!

Amazing maritime museum completed in 2008. Extremely comprehensive-- nine stories in all, with sub-floors in-between. Largest collection of miniature ships ever assembled -- all by the die cast process. Highlight for me: Topographic map of the entire planet showing the islands throughout the Pacific -- even Catalina Island. Topography of South American coastline shows how incredibly deep the drop-off is. The Alps, the Andes, and the Himalayas jut out dramatically. Other highlights: all types of torpedoes and other naval weaponry. Also: WWII periscope -- in working order. And a huge model of the QE II made out of legos. I was happier than a pig in sh*t.