The Port

The Port exhibition is a chance to play with and learn about global trade, shipping and oil extraction. You can try navigating the large ship and simulate global goods transport in our massive marble run.

Guide to The Port

Simulate global trade using our huge marble run and feel the full force of the storm with your own body. See here what is waiting for you in The Port.

The Port is an exhibition about our lives in a globalized world where commodities and goods are shipped cheaply and effectively.

The 500 square meter exhibition grapples with the scientific and technical aspects of the world of shipping. In the central part of the exhibition, you will find a large ship showing how sea transport works.

From the vessel, you have an overview of the complex logistics involved. Here, you can play your way to acquire knowledge about global geography and transport mechanisms using a massive marble run, where the marbles represent goods on their way to and from Denmark.

Finally, you can take a trip out to the North Sea offshore sector and explore one of nature’s most amazing resources: oil.

Feel the full force of a storm at sea

Try out our wind tunnel, where you can feel the force of the wind blowing at varying strength against your body. And on the video wall, you can also discover what the sea looks like from the bridge of a container ship far out in the North Atlantic.

Try the ship simulator

In our ship simulator, you can try navigating a ship on the open sea. We have built a realistic bridge with commanding views of the sea ahead, while the training simulator will test your skills as a shipmaster.

Marble run simulates global trade

In our large marble run, you can try your hand at making global trade flow smoothly. The marble run simulates international goods transport and is structured like a game, in which several participants have to work together and at the same time also to compete against each other.

The different marbles symbolise goods that need to be dispatched from warehouses and shipped by land and by sea; they have to be distributed correctly en route, in order to finally being delivered to shops on the other side of the world.

The trade has to flow smoothly and efficiently for the global economy to truly function!

Timelapse: Maersk Palermo

Visit the Port where you can test different wind forces on your own body. This video shows what calm seas look like on the shipping route through the St. Lawrence River towards Montreal, Canada. The video was recorded by the co-pilot on the Maersk Palermo.