Hanseatic Museum

Lonely Planet review

The terrific Hanseatic Museum provides a window onto the world of Hanseatic traders. Housed in a rough-timber building from 1704, it starkly reveals the contrast between the austere living and working conditions of Hanseatic merchant sailors and apprentices, and the lifestyles of the management.

Highlights include the manager's office, quarters, private liquor cabinet and summer bedroom; the apprentices' quarters where beds were shared by two men; the fish storage room, which pressed and processed over a million pounds (450,000kg) of fish a month; and the fiskeskrue, or fish press, which pressed the fish into barrels. Housed in a rough timber building from 1704, the museum starkly reveals the contrast between the austere living and working conditions of Hanseatic merchant sailors and apprentices, and the lifestyles of the management. Highlights include the manager's office, quarters, private liquor cabinet and summer bedroom; the apprentices' quarters where beds were shared by two men; the fish storage room, which pressed and processed over a million pounds of fish a month; and the fiskeskrue , or fish press, which pressed the fish into barrels.