{"id":15038,"date":"2019-08-27T05:45:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T03:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=15038"},"modified":"2022-01-03T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T10:46:12","slug":"museum-harbour-flensburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/schleswig-holstein\/flensburg\/museum-harbour-flensburg\/","title":{"rendered":"A place to learn and to wonder \u2013 Museum Harbour Flensburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A walk around the harbour of Flensburg will also take you to the area that is known as the Museum Harbour. Although this was our second trip to this place we still discovered many new things all around seafaring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Museum Harbour Flensburg was established in 1979. The Museum Harbour Flensburg Association started by renovating the old quay. With that done they started working towards their objective to \u201erebuilt and maintain traditional sailing ships and other historic vessels\u201c. They are mainly dealing with ships that were built in 1880 or later. The Museum Harbour Association purchased the first vessels and started their restoration work. They started with vessels that were used to earn money for their owners as opposed to leisure boats. Such vessels were e.g. fishing boats and cargo boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The concept for the Museum Harbour was introduced in 1984. Over the years a historic shipyard with exhibitions and slipways was created. A collection of dinghies, steamers and yachts was slowly assembled. The Museum Harbour Flensburg Association describes its tasks as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n