Deutsches Hafenmuseum - Standort Schuppen 50A
Timber-framed dock shed turned exhibition hall of pre-container harbor tools and vehicles.
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This guide to Schuppen 50A, part of the Deutsches Hafenmuseum in Hamburg, opens with a puzzle: how a shed built around 1908 to 1912 for storing coffee and rubber sacks ended up the subject of a sixteen-million-euro restoration. It walks through the dockers who called buildings like this cathedrals of labour, the bare original roof trusses still overhead, and the disputed measurements of a hall nobody thought needed a definitive tape measure. Look up at that original carpentry, worked under by thousands of men into the 1970s.
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