Maritime Museum
Maritime history museum founded in 1874, with six centuries of objects and a working open-air harbour.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam starts with the ground beneath the quay on Leuvehaven, and the afternoon of the fourteenth of May, 1940, when German bombers came over a city still fighting at its river bridges. It follows what Rotterdam did with the ruins of its old centre, and the Russian-born sculptor Ossip Zadkine, who passed through them by train after the war. Best heard at the water's edge, with the bronze figure on Plein 1940 in view to the north.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Maritime Museum Harbour
Open-air harbour of historic steam tugs, barges and working cranes on a seventeenth-century dock basin.
The Destroyed City by Ossip Zadkine
Towering bronze war memorial of a screaming figure with a hole torn through its heart, by the harbour.
FENIX
Migration museum in a vast 1920s harbour warehouse, crowned by a twisting steel rooftop staircase.
St. Lawrence Church
Late Gothic church whose tower and walls survived the 1940 bombing, rebuilt whole by 1968.
Hotel New York
Twin-towered Art Nouveau former shipping-line headquarters, now a hotel at the tip of a historic pier.
SS Rotterdam
Funnel-less nineteen-fifties ocean liner, now a permanently moored hotel, restaurants and museum.