The Hansekogge from 1380 is the heart of the German Maritime Museum.
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Bremerhaven – The museums are reopening – and so the Hansekogge is celebrating its comeback in front of an audience. From Monday, March 15, the German Maritime Museum (DSM) in Bremerhaven will open parts of the house. With an online bookable “time slot ticket” – that’s what it is called in pandemic times – visitors can visit the permanent exhibition about the Bremen cog from 1380.
The Cog hall now opens daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to the public. The harbor tug “Stier”, which is moored in the museum harbor, is also open. The cards are available at this address. “Guests look for one desired time and are then allowed 90 minutes through the Permanent exhibition stroll ”, formulated a DSM spokesman.
And: “On the occasion of the reopening, a reduced admission price from four euros, reduced two euros. ”Only a limited number of visitors are allowed to be on the ship and in the cog hall at the same time.
View from three perspectives
The cog hall is that heart of the Bremerhaven Research Museum. That is the focus imposing, more than 20 meters long and almost eight meters wide Shipwreck. It is of three floors and out three perspectives to visit.
During the construction work for the Neustädter Hafen in Bremen, workers were on October 8, 1962 on the wreck of the Hansekogge hidden in the mud 1380 bumped; on Sensationsfund That was. In the cog hall, the exhibition of the German Maritime Museum tells of the heyday of the Hanseatic League, of the Shipping in the Middle Ages, of life on board and of the fight against Pirates. A number of questions arise around the archaeological find, which are taken up in the exhibition: How was the ship built in the Middle Ages and which one fate did it suffer? Drove the ships of the Hanseatic merchants also across the North Atlantic or did they stay close to the coast? How can the ship for the future receive become? And so on.
The Hanseatic cog is still on Research object. After years of Conservation of the ship with the synthetic wax polyethylene glycol (short: PEG) are today “modern methods of preventive Conservation used like photogrammetric examinations ”, according to DSM. “About it possible deformations of the wood recognized and appropriate measures to be taken protection of the property. “
New exhibition on intoxicants
At the same time, of course, the museum also deals with topics that have nothing to do with the cog. During the pandemic closure, preparations are underway for new exhibitions went on behind the scenes, said the spokesman. The exhibition “Cocoa, Coffee, Tobacco – Intoxicants earlier”. It is a cooperation project between the DSM and the University of Oldenburg with students from Oldenburg. “The young minds researched the historical transportation, Trade and consumption of intoxicants, “it said.
The online opening of the new exhibition is on Saturday, April 3rd, from 11.30 a.m. on Facebook and Youtube to see.
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