MEYER WERFT Visitor Centre Presents the Future of Cruising
Opening the newly redesigned exhibition experience (from left): Kai Nehe, Managing Director of Papenburg Marketing GmbH, Vanessa Gattung, Mayor of the City of Papenburg, and Jörg Heidelberg, member of the Meyer Werft management team | Photo: Papenburg Marketing.
(eap) The MEYER WERFT Visitor Centre in Papenburg, Germany, has opened its modernised exhibition area just in time for the summer holidays in Lower Saxony. The facility, which offers insights into the shipyard’s company history and modern shipbuilding, has been operated by Papenburg Marketing GmbH for more than 30 years. With the current refurbishment, Papenburg Marketing has invested in the exhibition experience itself for the first time.
In “The Future of Cruising”, visitors can now gain insights into Meyer Werft’s ongoing development work | Photo: Papenburg Marketing.
Guests enter the new “The future of cruising” exhibition area through an original cabin corridor from a cruise ship. The area provides multimedia insights into Meyer Werft’s concept development for the “cruise of tomorrow”. Ship models of studies that have already been presented worldwide at leading trade fairs in the shipbuilding and cruise industries will subsequently be displayed in the area. The aim is to make the shipbuilding company’s ongoing development work accessible to the public in a transparent and vivid way. In addition to the new foyer, which is intended to significantly improve the quality of stay for guests, and the new exhibition elements, a new outdoor area has also been created. Overlooking the shipyard harbour, it invites visitors to linger before and after their visit to the exhibition and is also intended for special events.
“We are very pleased to have completed the new areas together with Meyer Werft and our partners in time for the summer holidays. We are now looking forward to welcoming many guests, to whom we can now present shipbuilding made by Meyer even better,” says Kai Nehe, Managing Director of Papenburg Marketing. Jörg Heidelberg, member of the Meyer Werft management team, adds: “Our visitor centre is not only one of the best-known tourist attractions in northern Germany, but also the shipyard’s calling card and mouthpiece. For career starters, students and skilled professionals, it is an entry point into our company.”
The two cruise ships “Carnival Festivale” and “Disney Believe” are currently being built at Meyer Werft in parallel and can be viewed from the visitor centre’s panorama gallery. In addition to individual visits to the exhibition at visitors’ own pace, premium tours are also offered, including an additional tour through areas of the shipyard that are otherwise not accessible. ■
