Discover the fascinating world of ancient seafaring at the Museum of Ancient Seafaring in Mainz.
The museum’s interactive and accessible permanent exhibition explores how trade, travel, and military expansion shaped mobility and connected civilisations across vast distances.
Learn how goods, ideas, and technologies spread between regions, creating new networks, cultural exchanges, and lasting influences. Highlights of the exhibition include the remarkable late antique shipwrecks discovered in Mainz in 1980–81, along with two full-scale replicas that bring these extraordinary vessels back to life.
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