German Maritime Museum

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German Maritime Museum

Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum
The main museum building
Established	September 1975 (1975-09)
Location	Bremerhaven, Germany
Coordinates	53°32′24″N 8°34′37″E / 53.54000°N 8.57694°E / 53.54000; 8.57694
Type	Maritime museum
Owner	Bremerhaven
Website	dsm.museum

The German Maritime Museum (German: Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum (DSM)) is a museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-president of Germany Walter Scheel, though scientific work already had started in 1971.

The museum consists of the building planned by Hans Scharoun as well as several museum ships in the Old Harbour of Bremerhaven, including the Seute Deern windjammer. The building and the 8 ships of the museum fleet, located between the Old Harbor and the Weser dike, as en esemble were placed under Bremen Cultural heritage management in 2005.

In 2000 at the 25th anniversary of the museum, the Hansekogge, a ship constructed around 1380 that was found in the Weser river in 1962, was presented to the public after having undergone a lengthy process of conservation in a large preservative-filled basin.