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.
Program
Tuesday, 03.10.2023
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:
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:
19.30
Dinner (Restaurant: Galileo’s Bar & Restaurant, Hauptstr. 160, Weil am Rhein)
Wednesday, 04.10.2023
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