Museumswerft Flensburg

About the museum

The Museumswerft (museum shipyard) was founded at Flensburg harbor in 1996. After several moves, it found its permanent home in 2001 on the Schiffbrücke opposite the Schifffahrtsmuseum and has been part of the Historic Harbor ensemble ever since. It is run by a nonprofit company with support from a friends' association.

The focus is on traditional wooden boatbuilding: following historic plans and using traditional techniques, the yard builds replicas and restores cargo sailing vessels and open workboats of the kind used in the Baltic Sea region 100 to 200 years ago. Visitors can watch the shipyard at work. Projects include the Tosmakke-Jolle (a Danish type of open boat) “Eurydike”, completed in 2009 and now used for harbor tours, and a replica of an ancient fishing boat for the Bibelzentrum Schleswig.

Besides boatbuilding, the shipyard teaches how to use historic tools, involves young people in building projects and offers boatbuilding for children's groups. It also provides repairs, advice and expert reports for historic watercraft, and there is a shipyard café on site.

Highlights

• Working shipyard where you can watch traditional wooden boatbuilding
• Replicas of cargo sailing vessels and workboats of the 18th/19th centuries
• Harbor tours on the Tosmakke-Jolle “Eurydike”
• Boatbuilding for children's groups
• Shipyard café at the Historic Harbor

Permanent exhibitions

• Historischer Holzbootsbau – Cargo sailing vessels and open workboats of the 18th and 19th centuries are built in the working shipyard from historic plans using traditional techniques.

Founded

1996

Operated by

Museumswerft gGmbH

Director

Tobias Fischer

Admission & discounts

Shipyard tours by arrangement; prices on request.

Accessibility

The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations
• Kids’ birthday parties

Boatbuilding for children: under guidance, children build their own small sailboat with parents or teachers (from 5 children, date by arrangement by phone). Children's birthday parties by arrangement.

Getting there & parking

Amenities & dining

• Café

Shipyard café with coffee, cake and soup of the day (tel. 0172 1010670, cafe@museumswerft.de).

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Private parties
• Weddings / ceremonies

Weddings, children's birthday parties and other events on the shipyard grounds by arrangement.

Plan your visit