Guest ships
You will discover unique sailing heritage in our museum harbour. You will find our own vessels and cranes there, but we also regularly invite other vessels. From tall ships to fishing vessels, from a solar boat to patrol vessels.
The HELENA is the permanent guest ship in our museum harbour.
This is the oldest sailing inland vessel in the Netherlands in its original condition. The HELENA is a beautiful ship to see from the jetty. Would you like to see the inside of the ship? Then a boat trip is recommended.
This floating supermarket from 1962 is a household name in Dutch inland navigation and the pinnacle of parlevinker culture in the Netherlands.
In the past, skippers and skipper's wives did their shopping from their own ship, because there was no time to stop the ship for shopping. Owner Wim van Hooren is well-known in the boating world, until 2008 he sailed around with his parlevinker as a supermarket owner and now he roams the Dutch waters and nautical events.
The HUGO was built in 1929 for German clients by C.V. Shipyard and Machine Factory v/h Botje & Ensing & Co in Groningen.
This steam tug served its entire professional period as harbor tug 'HUGO HEDRICH' in the port of Hamburg. The tug was returned to the Netherlands in 1977 and purchased in 1985 by A de Leeuw in Voorburg, now Zaandam. This owner put the HUGO back into service after years of restoration. The 'HUGO' is now owned by Sven van der Vorm and the activities are part of the 'Hugo' Steam Tugboat Foundation.
The Maritime Museum is the historic heart of the Maritime District, the area in the middle of the city center, where the port of Rotterdam once began. Here, high-rise and maritime history stand side by side. Here you will find unique sailing heritage and activities on and around the water, on a skyscraping waterfront.
