Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum of Rouen
The musée maritime, fluvial et de Rouen portuaire tells the story of the port of Rouen, one of the largest ports in France. It opened in 1999 while the Armada Rouen.
Themes and exhibits
The main themes of the museum are:
- The port's history with many photographs, and a room of the destruction caused by the Second World War
- The plant to the port and the works on the Seine in the 19th century
- The great sailing ships of Rouen, transported to a space above the ships, the nickel between New Caledonia and France
- The merchant marine, with many models of cargo ships, in which the museum is also located near the hangars, docked
- River navigation (see inland Pompon Rouge)
- The shipbuilding
- The whaling
- The history of submarines, with a replica of the interior of the Nautilus by Robert Fulton
Among the objects are engines of inland waterway vessels and trawlers, a fog bell, which once stood at the mouth of Risle, a diving suit, and a replica of a radio cabin of a ship of 1960 years.
A whale skeleton ( on loan from the Museum d' Histoire Naturelle de Rouen ) is issued in the middle of the museum. It is a seven year old fin whale, who died due to a stranding.
The 38 -meter-long inland waterway Pompon Rouge is located in the courtyard of the museum. In the hold of the ship a permanent exhibition on the river navigation was established.
Pictures
The inland Pompon Rouge
Bilge of the internal vessel
Sulzer engine with 400 cv and a mass of 28 tons, which was intended for a trawler (1937 )
Model of Marie -Louise Schiaffino
Model of Petraias
Fog bell that lay at the mouth of Risles time
Model of the Transporter Bridge Rouen
Whale skeleton
Simulation of a radio cabin of a ship of 1960 years
Model of the battleship Richelieu
Diving suit
Museum building
The museum is housed in a former hangar of the harbor, near the under construction Gustave Flaubert bridge. This hangar was built in 1926 and until the establishment of the autonomous Port de Rouen Hangar M called.
It was used by the Compagnie Charles Schiaffino who ran a shipping line to North Africa until the 1970s for storing wine and other goods.
During the 1970s many other shipping companies have taken advantage of the warehouse until it was closed in 1984, since its capacity is no longer sufficient.