Publieksinrichting Permanente Tentoonstelling Museum Werf Wolthuis Hoogezand Sappemeer Groningen WAT anders Harlingen Grafische-, Ruimtelijke- en Illustratieve Vormgeving
Scheepswerf Wolthuis
An old shipyard turned into a museum !
9 January 2013 - After months of sketching, designing, drawing and preparation work our
mission to complete a permanent public exhibition in only 12 weeks is
now completed! A challenge it was, with such limited time. Research,
content, history, studying the ways to build steel tjalks and
schooners, text, images, sounds, light and showcases for all original
tools. Working with steel workers, printer, sound engineer, blacksmith
and volunteers. With some 50 drawings and illustrations put into the
designs with texts and old photographs on the information panels framed
in steel we created a stalwart line to backbone the permanent
exhibition with a real shipyard feeling.
Werf Smit (later Wolthuis) in 1905Already in operation in the
17th century this little shipyard in Sappemeer, Groningen, now known as
Werf Wolthuis, where different families of shipbuilders built hundreds
of wooden and steel ships through the centuries, smaller ships that
sailed with loads of peat and ships that crossed the ocean as far as
South America, still exists today. With all machinery from 1880 in
place, used in building steel ships and restoration until the present
day the exhibition shows how it was done. Hard work. With hands of
steel. With volition. With commitment!
Werf Wolthuis in 2012
Ship building tools in the smithy
The old machines 
Building and preparing the steel line
Building and preparing the steel line
Building and preparing the steel line
 First info panels with introduction
Info Panels with history and drawings of shups built at the
shipyard
As there is only a little daylight through small windows
we created info panels that lighten up in the dark
Red foot buttons are installed to activate the different
sounds of the machines used in ship building
From above the visitors can look down on the machines below
Like this one, an old punch press, still in use today
 Info panels with explanations and comments concerning the bending of steel
Info panels, old photograph and tool
Info panels with explanations and comments concerning ship building methods
Example of one of the showcases to display the original
tools used in ship building
Panels covering the ship drawing and truss list used in building, schooners and how the bending of a truss was done
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