Binnenvaartmuseum

Binnenvaartmuseum is a floating museum in Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands, at the Wantij waterway close to the former shipyard De Biesbosch. The museum is administered by means of Vereniging De Binnenvaart which also runs the shore-based totally Binnenvaartcentrum. Binnenvaartcentrum collects files referring to inland transport within the Netherlands and some place else. The museum is focused around Rene Siegfried, a decommissioned pusher boat. Rene Siegfried turned into built in 1963 via De Biesbosch for the Strasbourg-based Compagnie française de navigation rhenane.

In its day, it was one of the most powerful pusher boats on the River Rhine that's a primary European waterway. It had a team of 11, later decreased to 9. In 1989, it changed into taken out of carrier because of overcapacity in the enterprise. It became saved from being scrapped, its engines had been removed, and it turned into transformed right into a floating restaurant containing objects of historical interest, moored on the Rhine at Nierstein in southern Germany.