Basel 2023

In 2023, the annual meeting was held in Basel, Switzerland. The network was a guest of the Hafenmuseum and of the Verein Historische Binnenschifffahrt in Basel.

Where did the meeting take place?

Hafenmuseum Basel

Westquaistrasse 2, 4057 Basel

Program

Monday, 02.10.2023

18.00

Get together (Restaurant: Seemannskeller, Südquaistraße 21, Basel)

Tuesday, 03.10.2023

Hafenmuseum

09.30

Arrival at Hafenmuseum,

Coffee and «Gipfeli» (provided by the Hafenmuseum)

10.00

Welcome Speeches: Rolf Schlebach,President Hafenmuseum

10.15 

Greeting and Introduction into Basel Harbour: Florian Röthlingshöfer, Director Schweizerische Rheinhäfen

10.30

Lecture

Ad Schroot, Vereniging De Binnenvaart, Rotterdam: Presentation of “De Binnenvaart”

11.00

Lecture

Wolfgang Stritzinger, Technisches Museum, Vienna:

Lifeline Danube. Regulation and renaturation of a European waterway in the 19th and 20th century

11.30

Lecture

Werner Hinsch & Bernd Dittmer, Elbschifffahrtsarchiv Lauenburg:

Old ships and new findings

12.30

Lunch

(buffet lunch at and provided by the Hafenmuseum)

Hafenmuseum

13:45

Guided tour Hafenmuseum with the curators Sabine Theil und Elke Fischer and try-outs at the ship simulator (with instructor)

15:45

Lecture

Gordana Karović, Museum of Science & Technology, Belgrade:

Ship loss and land grab. Museum under threat

16.15

Lecture

Dennis Beckmann & Bernhard Weber, Museum der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt, Duisburg:

Understaffed and unterdigitalized. The struggle to update the museum

16.45

Coffee break (Hafenmuseum)

17.00

Lecture

Jagoda Klim, Narodowe Muzeum Morskie, Gdansk:

Knowledge transfer. Revival of traditional inland boatbuilding in Poland – challenges, problems and possible solutions

17.30

Lecture

Michal Jajcaj, Slovak Museum of Transport, and Lenka Vargová, Department of Archive Studies of

Slovak Museum of Transport and Museology Faculty of Arts Comenius University, Bratislava:

Documentation of water transport in the STM-Museum of Transport in Bratislava and a proposal for a Museum of Water Transport

19.30

Dinner (Restaurant: Galileo’s Bar & Restaurant, Hauptstr. 160, Weil am Rhein)

Wednesday, 04.10.2023

Hafenmuseum

09.30

Arrival at WILLI (Mooring area: at Holzpark Klybeck, Uferstrasse 40, Basel)

10.00

Guided tour at WILLI

11.00

Lecture

Sophia Sökeland, LWL-Museum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg:

Redesigning FRANZ-CHRISTIAN. Makeover of a 90s exhibition on a motorized cargo vessel

11.30

Lecture

Jocelyne Gérard, Musée de la Batellerie, Saint Jean-de-Losne:

The last wooden péniche built in France. Saving the ASTER

12.30

Lunch (Restaurant: Restaurant Schiff, Hochbergerstrasse 134, Basel)

14.00

Guided tour Hafen Basel (Start: Hafenmuseum)

16.00

Coffee break (Hafenmuseum)

16.15

Discussion:

Activities of ENoRM

19.00

Dinner (Restaurant: Pizzeria Prima, Aeschenvorstadt 48, Basel; the dinner will be provided by the City of Basel)

Thursday, 05.10.2023

WILLI

09:30

Arrival at WILLI (at the mooring area)

10.00

Round trip with WILLI

12.30

Lunch (buffet lunch at WILLI)

13.45

Guided tour at the barge MS EVOLUTIE

(Westquaistrasse 19) with Steven Leisenberg, head of the Basel Rhine Pilots

15.00

Farewell meeting (Hafenmuseum)

16.00

End of the conference