Museums - Discovery tours into history
The numerous museums of the ostfriesische peninsula invite to discovery travels delving into the history of nature and culture. Visiting the museum is not only instructive, but also entertaining.
Here, near the North Sea coast, you'll find many institutions with maritime subjects: The National park Wattenmeer (mudflats), ships in bottles, shell collections, sea travel history and marine. Sometimes, even ships have been rebuilt to museum rooms.
In the heart of Ostfriesland, collections theming history and culture, agriculture and settlement development present information about the life and work of the Frisian in the past centuries. In the MachMitMuseum (participation museum) at Aurich, kids have a lot of fun, and apart from the Kunsthalle (Arts hall) at Emden (which is famous on an international level), visiting the art houses of Ostfriesland is similarly worthwhile.
East Frisian regional museum in Emden
Available in a new guise since 2005, the rebuilt house can be visited as a European regional museum.
German sluice harbour museum in Carolinensiel
The German sluice harbour museum invites you to take a journey into the past – a time of freight vessels sailing from Carolinensiel and many other water gate harbors at the German North Sea coast with destination set to Holland, England, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and to South America.
Fen and sea travel museum in Rhauderfehn
The Fehn- und Schiffahrtsmuseum is situated in an Art Nouveau villa directly at the fen route in the centre of Westrhauderfehn.
German marine museum in Wilhelmshaven
Wilhelmshaven is a marine station since 1869. Since that date, the harbor has been extended several times to correspond to the growing needs of the German marine in the past.
Museum of local history at Borkum
In the museum of local history with its „whale jaw-bone entrance“ they present 300 years of maritime history of Borkum in a loving manner, where one of the main subjects is the whale catch of Borkum.
