Maritime Museum
The Maritime Museum is located in Rotterdam. It presents the past, the present and the future of the maritime life. There are two expositions with a guide and two in free access. In the first exposition, a guide talked about old objects. First of all she presented an atlas made by a belgian explorator, Gérard Mercator, in 1569. It's the first time a person has made a 2D map with good proportions. It's the ancestor of the modern GPS. We have also seen boat models and painting. To finish, the guide has showed us an incomplete world map without all the coasts of the North America and the Australia. The second exposition shows the life in the cruise on the 30th. In first time, we have seen the cabins on the boat, then we have seen the different activities proposed for passengers: cinema, casino, theater, water-pool, jacuzzi... We have learnt data about the actual maritime traffic in Europe: 6 millions of passengers in 2012. 100 000 of them were Dutch.