The message and the bottle will be on display at Hamburg’s Maritime Museum until the beginning of May 2014. Then, experts will try to decipher the rest of the text. It is not clear what will happen to the bottle after that, but Erdmann hopes it will stay at the museum. “We want to find a few photos to put with the bottle and give it a face, so visitors can see the young man who threw the bottle into the water,” she said.
What does Erdmann want to add to the bottle exhibit?
Pictures of the bottled message’s author A photo that depicts a young man throwing a bottle into the sea A deciphered copy of the text Excerpts from a book written by her grandfather