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Places of history

Virtual discovery not enough for you? Then why not visit the city's historical museums and architectural highlights? Please note that the museums and exhibition halls may be closed due to the pandemic.

Kesselhaus
Info Center

Am Sandtorkai 30, 20457 Hamburg

Mo: geschlossen
Di ‒ Fr: 10 ‒ 17 Uhr
Sa + So: 11 ‒ 17 Uhr

Speicherstadt-
museum

Am Sandtorkai 36, 20457 Hamburg

Fri – Sun: 10 am – 6 pm
Public holidays: 10 am – 6 pm

Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte Eingang

Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

Holstenwall 24, 20355 Hamburg

Mon: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tue: closed
Wed – Fri: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat + Sun: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Tunnel-Bohrer Museum der Arbeit

Museum der Arbeit

Wiesendamm 3, 22305 Hamburg

Mon: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Tue: closed
Wed – Fri: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat + Sun: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Altonaer Museum Eingang

Altonaer Museum

Museumstraße 23, 22765 Hamburg

Mon: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tue: closed
Wed – Fri: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat + Sun: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Hafenmuseum Hamburg

Australiastraße 50A, 20457 Hamburg

Mon: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Tue: closed
Wed – Sun: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The Wadden Sea visitor centres

Always worth a visit are the more than 60 visitor facilities in the Wadden Sea region. They offer insights into the ecological system behind mudflats, salt marshes and dunes, as well as into the animal and plant world.

National Park Information Centres at the Wadden Sea in Lower Saxony

In the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, the 18 National Park houses and Wadden Sea visitor centres create an informative and entertaining access to the nature of the Wadden Sea for everyone.

National Park House Neuwerk

Insel Neuwerk 6, 27499 Hamburg-Insel Neuwerk

The opening times , like all life on the island, depend on the tides.

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Current exhibitions

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25 years Speicherstadtmuseum

The Speicherstadtmuseum looks back on a quarter of a century, but the planned anniversary celebration is unfortunately cancelled due to the Corona Pandemic.

The anniversary celebration, which was planned for Saturday, 6 June 2020, had to be cancelled some time ago due to the Corona pandemic. It was to be a big event with official speakers, many guests of honour and old friends of the house as well as live acts with music. Now Henning Rademacher, the museum operator, can only toast his long-standing comrades-in-arms in the closest circle – of course at a distance of 1.5 metres.
The Speicherstadt Museum emerged from the exhibition “Speicherstadt – architectural monument and place of work for 100 years”, which the Museum der Arbeit had shown with great success in 1988 and 1989 on two storage floors of the company Eichholtz & Cons. at St. Annenufer. After that the exhibition was only accessible to registered visitors. However, as interest remained lively, Henning Rademacher, a former volunteer at the Museum der Arbeit, came forward with the proposal to take over the exhibition and make it generally accessible as the Speicherstadtmuseum. Since the cultural authority also approved the unusual experiment, the Museum der Arbeit was given a purely privately run branch location.
From 1995 until the lockdown in March 2020, the Speicherstadtmuseum attracted a total of 1,323,600 visitors. The 50,000 visitor mark was broken in 2001. Since then the average annual visitor frequency has been 58,000 – a proud figure for a purely privately financed house.
This is an authentic representation of how the quartermasters used to store, sample and refine imported goods. © ELBE&FLUT / Thomas Hampel
Das Museum bietet Entdeckertouren für Kinder an. © ELBE&FLUT / Thomas Hampel
Owner Henning Rademacher has put a lot of heart and soul into his museum. © ELBE&FLUT / Thomas Hampel

13,000 to 14,000 visitors per year are allotted to the museum and Speicherstadt tours alone.The family tours “Speicherstadt – the discovery tour for children” are particularly popular. Inquiries are now also coming in from Austria and Switzerland.

Further regular events of the Speicherstadtmuseum are the coffee and tea tastings as well as the detective story readings.The Long Crime Nights are particularly popular, where several authors read under a common motto. What is sorely missed, however, is the opportunity to show special exhibitions. Since moving to the current premises at Sandtorkai in 2011, no more space has been available for this purpose.

 
Henning Rademacher currently looks to the future of his museum with mixed feelings. Even after the official end of the lockdown, there is still no sign of regular museum operations. So far, relatively few visitors stray into the Speicherstadt, and events and guided tours are very limited or not possible at all until the end of June. On the horizon, however, a strip of light also appears. In 2022, the Speicherstadt Museum is to be merged with the World Heritage Information Centre, which will also put the building on a different economic and institutional footing. Then the Corona pandemic will hopefully be history – and the thick folder with the cancellations of the last months will find its place in the museum archive.
Ein Stück Zeitgeschichte

25 years Speicherstadtmuseum

Henning Rademacher and Dr. Ralf Lange in an interview on the museum's 25th anniversary.

Virtuelle Führung

A tour of the Speicherstadtmuseum

On the occasion of this anniversary, art historian and curator Dr. Ralf Lange will personally guide you through the exhibition in the historic warehouse.

Many other interesting cultural attractions worth a visit can be found in unusual numbers and with a multifaceted variety of themes in the UNESCO World Heritage Site and in the immediate vicinity. Visit the KulturQuartier!

The WELTERBE INFO POINT at Chilehaus is unfortunately permanently CLOSED. Posters still available at the Museum der Arbeit.
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