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Cap San Diego
At the piers at Hamburg's port, you'll find the 10,000-tonne Cap San Diego. It hosts some interesting temporary exhibitions on immigration and shipping.
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Deichtorhallen
The converted market halls of the wonderful Deichtorhallen show international touring exhibitions of contemporary art - Warhol, Lichtenstein, Haring etc - as well as photography by Helmut Newton, Annie Leibowitz and other prominent shooters.
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Erotic Art Museum
The Erotic Art Museum does exactly what it says on the tin: presents erotic art from S&M to (mainly) soft porn.
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Hamburg Kunsthalle
Behind the green cupola and columns that dominate Glockengiesserwall awaits the famed Kunsthalle , consisting of two buildings linked by a underground passage. The main building houses works from medieval portraiture to 20th-century classics, such as Klee, Kokoschka and Munch. There's also a memorable room of 19th-century landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich.
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Harry's Hamburger Hafenbasar
This shop-cum-museum-cum-whatever is the life's work of the late, great Harry Rosenberg, a bearded character famous with seamen around the globe for his intense collecting of worldly souvenirs. The result is this curio-crammed shop that is free to visit as long as you buy something, which is easy if you're in the market for a set of Zulu drums.
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Kunsthalle
The Hamburger Kunsthalle consists of two buildings - one old, one new- linked by a memorable underground passage. The main building houses works ranging from medieval portraiture to 20th-century classics, such as Klee, Kokoschka and Munch. There's also a memorable room of 19th-century landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich.
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Kunstmeile
Keep an eye out for special exhibitions in the museums along Hamburg's Kunstmeile, extending from Glockengiesserwall to Deichtorstrasse between the Alster lakes and the Elbe. In particular, the converted market halls of the wonderful Deichtorhallen show international touring exhibitions of contemporary art as well as photography.
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Museum der Arbeit
The Museum der Arbeit chronicles the development of the workplace in the Hamburg area, with a focus on the changing rights and roles of working men and women. There's also a section on printing, appropriate for this media city. The museum is on the grounds of the former New York-Hamburg Rubber Company.
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Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
The Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte is a bit of a boy's own dream. It's chock-full of intricate ship models, has a large model-train set (only open at certain times; ring ahead) and even includes the actual bridge of the steamship Werner , which you can clamber over. Furthermore, it chronicles the city's evolution, revealing little titbits about its Masonic societies and the fact that the Reeperbahn was once the home of ropemakers ( 'Reep ' means rope). Most exhibits have English annotations.
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Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe has posters, ornaments and temporary exhibitions that are always lots of fun. Its vast collection of sculpture, furniture, jewellery, porcelain, musical instruments and household objects runs the gamut from Italian to Islamic, from Japanese to Viennese and from medieval to pop art eye-candy.
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Museum für Völkerkunde
The Museum of Ethnology demonstrates sea-going Hamburg's acute awareness of the outside world. The exhibits themselves are stunning, particularly the domed room at the top of the entrance hall's steps, with its carved wooden canoes and giant sculptures from Papua New Guinea.
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Rickmer Rickmers
At the piers at Hamburg's port, you'll find the Rickmer Rickmers, a three-masted steel windjammer from 1896 that is now a museum ship and restaurant.
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Spicy's Gewürzmuseum
This spice and herb museum invites you to exercise your olfactory sense to the fullest.
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