Gdansk Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum in Gdansk, Poland, founded 1960, spread across both banks of the Motlawa River. Its sites include the medieval Gdansk Crane (Zuraw), the largest surviving port crane of medieval Europe, and the museum ship Soldek, the first ocean-going vessel built in postwar Poland in 1948. The collection covers Baltic shipbuilding, Hanseatic trade, and underwater archaeology of the Polish coast.