Exhibition ship BUGA Koblenz Exhibition ship BUGA Koblenz

To enter the exhibition, each visitor "transforms" into a drop of water. For this purpose, he gets a rain protection, the men as "Rhine" dark blue and the women as "La Moselle" light blue, and is led into a small labyrinth. Fine water jets spread a spray that looks like clouds. Deeper in the tunnel the visitors "flow" past walls on those video projections of Rhine and Moselle to see are, info. boards give an entrance into the topic field water/shipping.
Through a spiral staircase, which pulls each "water drop" dramatically with light and noises with itself, one reaches into the ship interior.

Here the journey starts by the underwater world. Visitors dive in and experience the phenomenon of water. You will be guided by "Father Rhine" and "La Moselle" as central figures. These help the excursionist to establish a personal connection in their own charming and humorous way.
In the first exhibition room, the element of water is presented. Stories are told of fish and river animals, of plants and stones, of sand and bedload. Experiments with currents, seepage and floods can be tried out.
Through a "sluice" one reaches the next, largest exhibition room. Here the river is treated as a network. Ship simulators are available where everyone can be captain for once. Various exhibits on ship types, water supply, biodiversity, personal portraits, etc. give an impression of the diverse biotic communities around the river landscapes. The central exhibit is an interactive map of the Rhine, which extends across the entire room. Various data on the river as a habitat can be called up, e.g. map of cultural assets on the Rhine, technical structures, flood hazards, political responsibilities, types of landscape along the Rhine or even the current movements of ships on the river.
At the end of the exhibition, visitors pass through the next "lock" into the area of future themes. In the middle of the room is a column of water, which once again reinforces the impression of the change in perspective of being under water. Large and small fish swim in it, strange crabs cavort and eels hide behind water plants. The room also contains exhibits and information on current and future topics, such as climate change and flood management, the future of inland navigation, energy production, the expansion of waterways, etc. Before the visitor "resurfaces", he can send a "message in a bottle" by throwing a wish about the future of the rivers
in prepared bottles.