Opening hours: Closed Mondays. May 1st – September 30th: Tuesday, 10am-6pm; Wednesday and Friday, 9am-3:30pm; Thursday, 10am- 3:30pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm; October 1st – April 30th: Wednesday and Friday, 9am-3:30pm; Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm.
The Maritime Museum is housed in an eclectic building designed by Wilhelm Meyer Schwartau specifically for exhibition purposes, built between 1908 and 1913. The present-day Maritime Museum was established by the Minister of Seafaring in 1946, incorporated four years later into what was known at that time as the West-Pomeranian Museum, and included as part of the National Museum in 1970.
The Museum's Archaeological Section contains exhibits depicting the way of life of West Pomeranians in the area of Szczecin, Kolobrzeg, Kamien Pomorski and Wolin, highlighting West Pomerania's centuries-long dependence on the sea, and revealing the extent of Southern and Western European influences through a variety of vessels, everyday objects, boats and weapons, as well as bronze and gold jewellery. The African Section has on display buildings typical of an African village; agricultural tools used by Malinke, Susu and Baule tribes; ritual masks and robes of West African tribes; and sculptures, including the striking pomodoss and nomoli stone figures by Kissi and Mande tribes. The Non-European Cultures Section has East Asian art on display, including Chinese porcelain from the seventh through the tenth centuries, and Tang dynasty and early Japanese sculpture, as well as weapons and everyday objects from Asia, Indonesia, Australia and Oceania. The Maritime section boasts a collection of ship models, navigational instruments, engineering tools, maps and paintings. The Pomeranian Ethnographic Section shows furniture-making, weaving, fishing and farming tools, handicrafts and contemporary folk art. The Numismatics Room displays bank notes, seal presses and seals, including some of Pomeranian cities and guilds, orders and distinctions, a valuable collection of Pomeranian coins and medals from the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries, as well as treasures consisting for the most part of local coins found in West Pomerania. The Nature Section contains exhibits on the region's wildlife, plants and geology.
Permanent exhibitions: "The Prehistory of Pomerania on Land and at Sea"; "Slavs and the Baltic Sea"; "Baltic Seafaring, 1200-1900"; "Poland and the Sea: 1920-1945"; "Steam-Powered Ship Engines"; "Africa: South of Sahara"; "African Art"; "The Tropical Forests of Africa"; "West-Pomeranian Minting, 1300-1900"; "The Daily Life of the Sepik River Papuans"; "The Sacred Art of East Asia"; "Szczecin and the Sea in the Twentieth Century"; "Experiencing the Sea".
Muzeum Morskie
Oddział Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie
ul. Wały Chrobrego 3
70-500 Szczecin
Region: zachodniopomorskie
Phone: (+48 91) 433 60 18, 433 60 02
WWW: www.muzeum.szczecin.pl/muzeummorskie.htm