Maritime Museum (Deutsches Meeresmuseum) description and photos - Germany: Stralsund (Topic)

Maritime Museum (Deutsches Meeresmuseum) description and photos - Germany: Stralsund. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Deutsches Meeresmuseum.

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When in 1951 the German biologist Otto Diebelt opened an exhibition of natural history in the building of the former monastery of the Church of St.Catherine, no one thought that this would lay the history of one of the most visited museums of maritime themes in northern Germany.

Back in the days of the GDR, it was impossible to imagine a vacation on the coast of the German Baltic without a mandatory excursion to the Stralsund Museum. The museum gradually expanded and soon the entire area of the monastery, including the church, was filled with aquariums, photographs, dioramas, and ship models. In the seventies, a tropical aquarium with live corals inhabiting it became the main attraction of the museum.

After the reunification of Germany, the maritime museum continued to get upset more and more, soon the exhibits ceased to have enough monastic territories and construction spread to the nearby islands of Denholm (a former fishing village) and Natureum. Today, the Stralsund Maritime Museum has 39 aquariums, 1 winding tunnel and an oceanarium displaying a life-size whale model.

Periodically there are performances for children and adults. Although the museum closes at 6 pm, once a month visitors can walk along the sea tunnel, accompanied by Poseidon and mermaids, lighting themselves with flashlights to spy on sleeping fish and find out if they sleep at all in the dark.

The Stralsund Aquarium was named the best natural history museum in Europe in 2010 and was awarded the bronze sculpture "The Egg", symbolizing popular recognition and love of visitors. The museum is open daily from 10 am and the whole day is hardly enough to have time to see all its sights.

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