You can't make it up. Engineers can!
Engineers are real enablers: they design ideas and solutions for our built environment, plan and coordinate construction projects and ensure that buildings, bridges and roads are safe and durable. Even in museums, this professional group helps to make exhibitions and visitor experiences possible in the first place.
This is also the case with the floating whale skeleton under the monastery roof and other exhibits at the MEERESMUSEUM in Stralsund. What at first seems light, imaginative and natural to visitors requires fundamental knowledge of statics, measurement and safety. Technical solutions are developed for this, which - as is so often the case - are not visible at first glance, but which make the presentation of such an interesting object possible in the first place.
The MEERESMUSEUM moved into the former Katharinenkloster monastery in Stralsund in 1951, when it was still a municipal natural history museum, and developed into an internationally recognized museum for marine history and fisheries in the GDR. After reunification, the museum was transferred to a foundation in 1994 and was given its current name in 1998. From 2020 to 2024, the MEERESMUSEUM in Stralsund was extensively modernized - with the help of engineers - to give the exhibitions and aquariums a contemporary makeover and to meet the requirements for accessibility throughout the entire tour as well as energy efficiency and modernity.
The exhibition provides a unique look behind the scenes of this work and reveals a lot about the job description, the exciting challenges and tasks of engineers who were involved in the renovation in many different ways. The broad spectrum of the profession becomes tangible - from the first drafts to the finished construction. The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Chamber of Engineers, which is also our exhibition partner, has also made this enthusiasm its mission. It represents the profession in our federal state and is committed to quality, safety and the promotion of young talent in engineering.
