Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum of Rouen

The museum

The main themes are :

• the history of the port, with photos, and an exhibition space about the destruction caused by World War II
• the infrastructures of the port and the works on the Seine to allow it to be navigable for the greatest ships
• the greatest sail ships of Rouen, with an exhibition room about the ships which were to New Caledonia to load nickel
• the merchant navy, with a lot of models of cargo ships, a lot of them docked often in front of or in the vicinity of the hangar where the museum is located
• river navigation
• ship building
• whale hunting, with a whale skeleton (see below)
• the history of the submarines, with a reproduction of the interior of the Nautilus from Robert Fulton

It is possible to see trawler and barge motors, a mist bell which was once located at the estuary of the Risle, a aqualung sic and the reproduction of the radio cabin of a ship from the 1960s .
A giant skeleton ( lend by the museum d’histoire naturelle de Rouen ) is exhibited in the center of the museum. It is a louver giant which was 7 years erstwhile when it died by grounding.

There is besides a 38 meter long barge, named Pompon Rouge, which can be visited, its bear has been transformed into an exhibition room about the river seafaring, with a lock model .
Besides this, there are impermanent exhibitions about assorted issues, such as the conveyer belt bridge of Rouen or the Vikings .

Pictures

• General view of the museum
• The barge Pompon Rouge, transformed into an exhibition space
• The deem of the barge, with the permanent exhibition about the river seafaring
• Sulzer Motor of 400 cv and 28 tons which equipped a trawler ( 1937 )
• model of the Marie-Louise Schiaffino, a ship which docked frequently in battlefront of the former airdock 13
• model of the Petraia, a embark which docked frequently at the coal dock, on the inverse side of the Seine

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• Mist bell, which was once located at the estuary of the Risle
• model of the conveyer belt bridge of Rouen
• Whale skeleton
• reproduction of the radio cabin of a ship from the 60 ‘s
• model of the dreadnought Richelieu
• Scuba set

Hangar 13, where the museum is located .

The locate

The museum is located in a erstwhile airdock of the port, not far from the new Gustave Flaubert bridge. This airdock was built in 1926, and was named airdock M until 1966 and the creation of the Port autonome de Rouen.

It was let at the disposal of the Schiaffino Company, until the 1970s, which made lines with North Africa. At first, it was used to store wine until the build of a wine airdock. then, it was used more to store fruits .
During the 1970s, the airdock is used by many companies until 1984, where it was desaffected because it was not fitted any more for the harbor .

See besides

• Musée maritime fluvial et portuaire de Rouen Official site.

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