Maritime Museum, Tranquebar

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Maritime Museum, Tranquebar
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Maritime Museum, Tranquebar
Location Tharangambadi

Maritime Museum, Tranquebar is a maritime museum located at Tharangambadi in the Mayiladuthurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on the Coromandel Coast.

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Location

It is situated opposite to Danish Fort. [1] [2]

Displayed objects

In this teensy ramshackle museum, a mishmash of old boats, fishing memorabilia and a hard-hitting photo-video of the effects of the 2004 tsunami in Tranquebar are found. [3] The Tharangambadi maritime museum has displays of preserved sea life, shells, models of boat, utensils, costumes, paintings and little more that were used by the Danes. They also have a small Indian stamp collection. [4] The Danish Commander’s House is an airy 18th-century bungalow. It was restored by the Danish Tranquebar Association. It now houses the Tranquebar Maritime Museum. In it stories of the sea are found. An old wooden ship occupies an important place. It is surrounded by an odd collection of ships parts, old trunks, and the skeletal remains of marine creatures, and bits and bobs collected from Danish ships. [5] Glass objects, Chinese tea jars, swords, daggers, spears etc., are found. Many of these objects are from the sea. Kattumarams, Horse teeth, sea conch are also found here. [6]

Objects in Fort Museum

The 17th and 18th century antiquities and relics from the Vijayanagara empire and Thanjavur Nayak kingdom, which authorized, allowed, and sanctioned the aforementioned Danish port township connected with the colonial period and Danish settlement at Tharangampadi are exhibited. [7] The museum contains porcelain ware, Danish manuscripts, glass objects, Chinese tea jars, steatitle lamps, decorated terracotta objects, figurines, lamps, stones, sculptures, swords, daggers, spears, sudai (stucco) figurines and wooden objects. There is also part of a whale skeleton, a giant sawfish rostrum and small cannonballs. [8]

Visiting hours

Visitors are allowed to this museum from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rhode, Grant Frederick (15 October 2023). Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road: Lessons from History to Shape Current Strategy. Naval Institute Press. ISBN   978-1-68247-867-7.
  2. ↑ Finland, National Archives of; Norway, National Archives of; Sweden, National Archives of; Federley, B.; Kihlberg, Y.; Jörgensen, D.; Söderlind, S.; Näslund, L.; Ludwigs, F. (13 October 2011). Sources of the History of North Africa, Asia and Oceania in Finland, Norway, Sweden. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-097035-7.
  3. 1 2 Lonely Planet, Maritime Museum, Tharangambadi
  4. ↑ Trip Advisor
  5. ↑ Denmark on the Coromandel, DNA, 29 September 2019
  6. ↑ Conway, Stephen (2017). Britannia's Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-880870-1.
  7. ↑ "Tharangampadi - Introduction". Nagapattinam district administration, State government of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  8. ↑ Madhulika Liddle (8 August 2010). "The Missionary's footprints". Indian Express. India.

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