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-5
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 Zwammerdam 3, model.
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 Reconstruction of the Mainz 3 warship
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 Reconstruction of Alteburg
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 Reconstruction of the Mainz 3 warship: afterdeck
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 Model of the Woerden 1
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 Zwammerdam 5, model.
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 Model of a pram, found near Krefeld
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 Remains of the Mainz-3 ship
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 Zwammerdam 6, model.
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 Remains of the Mainz-6
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 Reconstruction of the port of Apollonia
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 Reconstruction of the Mainz 1 galley
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 Reconstruction of the Brühl Inscription (EDCS-12800734)
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 Reconstruction of the Mainz 1 galley
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 Tile with the sign of the Classis Germanica Pia Fidelis (EDCS-69700886)
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 Zwammerdam 2 = Mainz 3, model. Museum für Antike Schiffahrt, Mainz (Germany)
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 Reconstruction of the Mainz 1 galley
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 Remains of the Mainz-1 ship
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 Reconstruction of the Mainz 3 warship: catapult
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 Remains of the Mainz-2
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 Tombstone of a carpenter with a relief of a warship
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 Vechten, cast of a dedication by G. Julius Bio (EDCS-12800109)
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 Remains of the Mainz-4
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