The Maritime Museum Rotterdam sits in Leuvehaven, a harbour dug entirely by hand in the late 16th century and completed in 1609. The outdoor area of the museum is the harbour itself, where historic ships still bob alongside the quay and skilled craftsmen work on their maintenance in open workshops. Six centuries of Dutch maritime history wait inside the main building, including the oldest ship model in the world.

Rotterdam is Europe's largest port, and the museum roots that identity in something tangible. Founded in 1874, it sits at the heart of a city shaped entirely by water. Every first weekend of September, the World Port Days festival spreads along the river from here to the Erasmus Bridge.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the museum and its harbour to trace Rotterdam's maritime DNA, connecting the hand-dug Leuvehaven to the city's wartime story and its reinvention as a modern port metropolis.