Mainz, Museum für antike Schifffahrt

If you are interested in ancient history, the museums of Mainz, ancient Mogontiacum, are not to be missed. In fact, the city boasts no less than six museums. One of these, the Museum für antike Schifffahrt (Museum of Ancient Navigation), is unique in the world.

Of course shipwrecks can be seen in more cities (e.g., Bodrum, Marsalla, and Rome’s Fiumicino Airport), but they are usually sea ships – the Mainz museum has six wrecks of war ships that were used to defend a river. In this museum, which is also free and does not even allow you to make a donation, you will also find two 1:1 reconstructions, and dozens of models of ancient boats. A collection of objects relating to ancient navigation is also there. The Roman theater of Mainz s five minutes away;

This museum was visited in 2001, 2005, 2008.

24 pictures related to this museum

Remains of the Mainz 2	Köln-Alteburg, Drawing	Remains of the Mainz-5	Brühl, Inscription of Pertinax (reconstruction)
Remains of the Mainz 1 ship	Zwammerdam 2 = Mainz 3, model	Reconstruction of the port of Apollonia	Vechten, Dedication by G. Julius Bio (cast)
Zwammerdam 6, model.	Reconstruction of the Mainz 3 warship: afterdeck	Mainz-Weisenau, Tombstone of a carpenter with a relief of a warship	Remains of the Mainz-6
Reconstruction of the Mainz 1 galley	Reconstruction of the Mainz 3 warship	Zwammerdam 5, model.	Remains of the Mainz-4
Voorburg, Tile with the sign of the Classis Germanica Pia Fidelis	Zwammerdam 3, model.	Reconstruction of the Mainz 1 galley	Remains of the Mainz-3 ship
Krefeld, Pram, Model	Reconstruction of the Mainz 3 warship: catapult	Woerden, Model of the Woerden 1	Reconstruction of the Mainz 1 galley