Maritime Museum Rotterdam

150 years of Maritime Museum Rotterdam: more than just ships

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • 24 August 2024

The Maritime Museum has existed for 150 years, and over those years a treasure trove of maritime objects and stories has been collected. We want everyone to enjoy this treasure and learn from it about what it was like then, what it is like now...

Construction results of ship models throughout the centuries

Written in: Dutch • redactie • October 4, 2015

The 'Ship Models' stamp sheet, issued on October 12, 2015, features ten striking ship models from the Rotterdam Maritime Museum, designed by Haico Beukers & Marga Scholma from Haarlem. The emphasis here is on four ships from around 1900...

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