Museum for German Inland Navigation Duisburg-Ruhrort

image author: Wolfgang Arendt

The Museum for German Inland Navigation exists already in Duisburg-Ruhrort since 1979. Earlier it was situated at the Dammstraße in the former Ruhrort town hall, which became to small for the extensive collection over time.

In the summer of 1998 it happened: Germany's biggest inland navigation museum could be opened again after a move to its new location to the Apostelstraße.

The old Ruhrort indoor pool offers the museum with an exhibition surface of 2500 sqm and its very special ambiance an ideal new domicile.

As a museum for technique, economy and social history it conveys lively and extensively the particularities of the inland navigation world.

image author: Wolfgang Arendt

The hard work of dockers and shipyard workers, the life of shipper's families, the role of the wife on board, the history of the harbours, shippers' life in Ruhrort, changing ship building techniques - all this is only a small selection of topics which the visitor can experience in the museum.

Productions of listening and film stations, exhibits to be touched give deep insights into the world of inland navigation. A film projection invites you to a trip on the Rhine.


You'll find the Museum for German Inland Navigation under the following address:

Museum der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt
Duisburg-Ruhrort
Apostelstraße 84
47119 Duisburg