by Helen M. Rozwadowski and Gard Paulsen This spring Helen Rozwadowski had the opportunity to spend three months as a guest researcher at the University of Oslo, working on the Maritime Modernities project. Visits to maritime museums were an integral part of our explorations of the maritime past. This blog post includes two sets of… Read More Visiting Sandefjord and its Whaling Museum
By Katrin Kleemann and Nils Theinert In 1962, a dredge engineer discovered a medieval cog whilst working in the harbor basin in the city of Bremen in northern Germany. Its discovery prompted the foundation of the German Maritime Museum (DSM) in 1971. The museum opened its doors to visitors in 1975. It is the German… Read More The Library and Collections at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven
A few weeks ago I visited some friends who live on Long Island. We had planned to go to Sagamore Hill, the country estate of Theodore Roosevelt. However, upon learning that we needed advance reservations, we decided instead to visit the ‘Eagle’s Nest,’ the less well-known estate of William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of the American… Read More When Billionaires Trusted in Science
Last week I had the unusual experience of petting a shark. This is how it came about. I was visiting the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. Those familiar with the history of oceanography will already be acquainted with the personage of Prince Albert 1st (1848 – 1922), arguably the single most important individual patron of oceanographic… Read More A visit to the Musée Océanographique de Monaco
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