Ocean fishing gear

That was Museum in the monastery of Saint Catherine on June 24, 1951 as a Museum of nature by
its founder, Otto Dibbelt opened. Terrariums with native amphibians and reptiles, as well as
aquariums with animals from the Baltic Sea and the lagoon were visible. click here..
That was Museum in the monastery of Saint Catherine on June 24, 1951 as a Museum of nature by
its founder, Otto Dibbelt opened. Terrariums with native amphibians and reptiles, as well as
aquariums with animals from the Baltic Sea and the lagoon were visible.
In 1957, the Museum of nature to the Museum for Oceanography and fisheries has been redesigned
and expanded considerably. Sonnfried Streicher as the successor of the museum founder Otto
Dibbelt designed and directs the reconstruction. The Museum District Museum of natural history
and marine biology from 1965 exhibitions was built in 1958. In 1966, the Museum was renamed in
"Education Museum Stralsund" and rebuilt 1968 first parts of the Sea Aquarium in the basement.
The former Abbey Church was in the years 1972 to 1974, General instandgesetzt and converted into
the exhibition hall and indented steel buttress, which creates in the Hall floors. The "sea Museum -
Museum for Oceanography and fisheries" was opened in 1974 and 1975 the Sea Aquarium in the
Katharinenhalle. 750-year celebration of the founding of the city of Stralsund, complete Aquarium
was opened the extension wing of the Sea Aquarium with a 50,000 litre and a 30,000 litre in 1984.
The top floor was expanded in 1986 and now houses the depot for the scientific collections of the
Museum. The first part of the exhibition man and sea floor was opened in 1989. In the same year,
opened a visitors room with 15 aquariums, as well as the Museum Caf and completed the
extension building for the aquarium industry. The Baltic Sea Division in the Marine Aquarium was
reopened on 4 November 1993.
The town until then sea Museum was transferred to 1993/1994 in the "Stiftung Deutsches Museum
for Oceanography and fisheries".
In the year 1995 a scientific research and breeding facility was built and the preparation workshops
were upgraded. In the same year, Harald Benke took over the management of the Museum. The
Foundation will be in the October 1998 "German sea Museum, Museum for Oceanography and
fisheries. Renamed Aquarium".
On July 16, 1999, the reconstructed and redesigned North Sea Aquarium was reopened. On January
30, 2004, a multi-purpose building was opened on the visit of justice where the 350,000 gallon
aquarium for the sea turtles and the Museum Bistro are housed. The Mediterranean Aquarium
opened on July 17, 2009.
From the 50th anniversary gave the Federal Republic of Germany a postage stamp and a coin out. In
addition, the Museum, which belongs to the ten most visitied Germany, in the blue book, a list of 20
significant so-called cultural lighthouses in the so-called new Lnder is.
The Museum since its founding in 1951 in the former monastery of Saint Catherine not longer
Church use since the Reformation. To get the building in the original, a self-supporting steel
structure was built in the 1970s, that enables flexible height in the spatial design of the exhibition.
Space, the Museum is divided into the forecourt surrounded by a wall and the Museum buildings,
the three-storey Exhibition Hall (former monastery), the Baltic exhibition in the construction of the
Central (formerly winter refectory and Chapter House), sea aquariums in the basement, the Museum
shop in the West Wing (former school), the sea turtle aquarium in the new building, as well as in
premises for the preparation of exhibits, the building of the Directorate, technical services, offices of
scientists and the "Forum Maritime Museum".
On the spacious forecourt, which is full at the entrance of pending visitors particularly visitor-
intensive times, the cutter is SAS 95 "Adolf Reichwein". The wooden boat was built 1949 Bodden in
ribnitz-Damgarten, and was one of the first cutter of the GDR high seas. On Baltic Sea and North
Sea it was in use until 1969 and was convicted in 1973 in the Museum yard.
On a wall a test of knowledge of the route to the European brick Gothic style with numerous
questions and answers is located in the entrance hall.
The former monastery church is divided into three levels by means of a space grid structures
construction. The ground floor is a model (cut) of the former church with his steel rod work.
The German Marine Museum offers six permanent exhibitions: "Marine science and marine biology",
"Whales", "History of fishing", "DDR fishing", "Man and sea" and "coast". To present information
about Hermann Burmeister and his research in the nearby Barnes House. Special exhibitions and
travelling exhibitions complete the Museum.
The permanent exhibition "Oceanography and marine biology" in the ground floor is the starting
point of a walking tour and.
In the case "without water, that remember..." the water cycle is represented. A cut model of the
Katharinenhalle shows the transformation and current usage of the former monastery church.
Shows the shape of the seabed with its abyssal plains, mountains and trenches a seven-metre-long
relief cutting of the North Atlantic between New York and Lisbon. Graphics are the basics of plate
tectonics and the development of oceans vermittelt1. Shells of various fossil shells are approximately
2300 on a 12-square-meter, 200-million-year old limestone plate from a limestone quarry by
Rdersdorf, Germany. Remains of cephalopods are a polished limestone slab of land. In a glass
cube containing a cubic meter 35 kilograms is a demonstrated the salinity of sea water.
The different types of research vessels, so the French "Pourquoi-pas?" (1908), the German "Meteor"
(1922) and the "Professor Albrecht Penck" and the dive boat "Trieste", bear witness to the efforts of
people to explore the oceans and the deep sea. Also a Board and a staging of the deep-sea world
illustrate life in very hostile depths. Present three aquariums of tropical and Mediterranean
Aquarium crabs, crabs, starfish and other invertebrates as well as coral reefs.
A groomed young grey seal and a seal show information about these animals. In addition, an 800-
year-old mummified crab Eater seal is issued. The skeleton of a manatee in the same display case
comes from the year 1926. You as well as the skeleton and the face mask of elephant seals are gifts
of the Wittenberg Ethnology Museum. The face mask is preserved only by a bull in 1936 prepared by
Karl Kstner, who came from the Berlin Zoo and was about 2,000 kilograms and 4.50 metres in
length. Another theme of the exhibition are bone and cartilaginous fish such as swordfish and tiger
shark. Shown are also groomed dolphins and the skeleton of a pig whale.
The attention of the Maritime Museum is the coral. These Hohltiere are shown on the ground floor of
the Hall; also a nine metre high section of a coral reef. The coral heads and the animal exhibits,
representing the reconstructed reef, were collected in 1976 and 1979 in expeditions of the Museum
staff in the Red Sea. This reef was restored starting in 2011 and partially redesigned.
The permanent exhibition "Whales" is located in the former choir.
A 15-metre, approximately 1000 kilograms heavy skeleton of a young Finnwales, who was stranded
in 1825 on the West coast of Rgen, forms the main element of the exhibition. It hangs from the
ceiling. Dry preparations of the trachea, the blood vessels and the penis of an animal also are
displayed in a vitrine.