For many years, a container from Maersk Line travelled the world. Inside its metal body it carried products for consumers, for businesses and industries.
Over and over again someone filled the rectangular box with carefully manufactured products and sealed the two doors to keep the contents safe. Hundreds or even thousands of miles later, the seal would be broken and the grey box would be emptied again.
The large box has been onboard great ships, travelled on long trains and moved across highways on the back of trucks.
Like the rest, yet special
In many ways this particular 20’ container is no different than millions of other metal boxes made for transporting goods around the globe.
But the future of this particular box will be quite different from its many siblings, which at some point will be melted down and used for something completely different.
This particular container has ended its service for the Maersk Line and is now enjoying a well-deserved rest underground in Elsinore, Denmark, inside the building that will soon become the new Maritime Museum of Denmark.
Life in a glass case – in Elsinore
The museum building is encircling an old dry dock at the former Elsinore Shipyard and is located completely underground. The entrance to the building is two diagonal bridges leading three meters below ground, and here the visitor begins her descent, moving through six thematic exhibitions as well as special exhibitions.
The container will play a major part of the exhibition about the modern-day globalisation, where the old and rusty box will be enclosed in a beautiful glass case, just like the other museum objects.
Here it will tell millions of visitors from all over the world about the global transport system and how it affects all of us as consumers today.
The new Maritime Museum of Denmark opens in June 2013.
Arrival of the container at the tip of the old dry dock.
The container is the first object to arrive in the new museum and is set aside to allow the construction to continue.
The first object of the new museum is resting waiting to be seen by millions of visitors from the summer of 2013.
The new Maritime Museum of Denmark is located next to the famous castle Kronborg in Elsinore, Denmark.
