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If you are fond of museums, Rotterdam offers a lot. Whether you are interested in antique or modern art there are many museums in Rotterdam that you can visit.

As Rotterdam traditionally seen is a port city, this brings along that the culture of the city is very diversified as are her people.

Find your Rotterdam hotspot, your favorite Rotterdam museum.

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MARITIEM MUSEUM IN ROTTERDAM

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Maritiem museum in Rotterdam

Maritiem museum in Rotterdam
Website:	www.maritiemmuseum.nl
Telephone:	+31 (0)10 413 2680
Email:	info@maritiemmuseum.nl
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Address:	Leuvehaven 1, Rotterdam Holland

The Maritiem Museum Rotterdam is the oldest shipping museum in Holland. The original collection is gathered from 1852 and excises out of maritieme objects like paintings, cartographic, drawings and photographic from ship building, prints and models of ships.

The Martiem Museum Rottedam offers a platform of half a million of maritime objects what a lover of shipping needs to have seen.

In the harbor outside you find the museum ship De Buffel. This former marineship is a ramship and for the lover of the maritieme culture a hightlight of the Martiem Museum Rotterdam.

The martieme Museum Rotterdam got his origin from the Modelroom of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Yatchclub which have been set up on demeand of Prins Hendrik (1820-1879). Prins Hendrik was the son of the duchess of Russia, Anna Oaulowna and King Willem the 3rd.

Prins Hendrik, also know as ¨the sailor¨, stimulated the use of steampower on ships, what resulted in the set up of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland in 1875. In the beginning only members of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Yachtclub were able to join the Modelroom, after 1874 it became a public museum.

The name of this shipping museum is changed in 1999 to Maritiem Museum Rotterdam.

Besides the permanent collection of the shipping museum, they also offer other kinds of exhibitions. The creation of the shipping company Nedlloyd NV, the Holland – America line (HAL) and sort sea shipping are some of the subjects that will be in the picture in 2008.

Maritiem Museum Rotterdam – Visiting hours
Tuesday – Saterday 10.00u – 17.00u, Sunday and holidays 11.00u – 17.00u. 1 Jan, 30 Apr, 25 Dec closed. Attention: July/August + holidays public education Rotterdam the museum is also opened on Monday from 10.00u – 17.00u.

Maritiem Museum Rotterdam – Prices
Eur 5,- till1 5 years old and CJP. Eur 3,- till 3 years old / MJK / Rotterdam pas gratis. Group prices: Groups of 15+ Eur 4

Maritiem Museum Rotterdam – Accessibility
Subway Beurs/Churchillplein or Tram 8,20,21,23 and 25; Bus 32 RET.
Access of wheelchair users.