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THE SHIPPING MUSEUM

At the end of the 1920s, the then Düsseldorf port director, Heinrich Etterich, had the idea of developing an exhibition about the Düsseldorf port and trading center.

Together with the head of the Museum of Urban History, Dr. Hans Brückner, took on this idea more concrete forms from 1931.

The Maritime Museum in Düsseldorf (proprietary name SchifffahrtMuseum) is one of the oldest inland shipping museums in Germany and today in the castle tower on the banks of the Rhine. The operator is the Freunde und Fördererdes SchifffahrtMuseums im Schlossturm e.V. Düsseldorf.
THE SHIPPING MUSEUM

With the technical knowledge of the museum manager and the technical know-how of the port director, they founded one of the oldest collections on the history of navigation by the Rhine with graphic representations, documents and ship models. This collection was initially temporarily presented to the public in 1936 during the Düsseldorf Harbor Day in the Stadtmuseum, from 1937 permanently in the "Green Vault" of the Planetarium in the Ehrenhof.

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