The message and the bottle will be on display at Hamburg’s Maritime Museum until the beginning of May 2014, after which experts will attempt to decipher the rest of the text. It is not clear what will then happen to the bottle, but Erdmann hopes it will stay at the museum. “We want to make a few photos available 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 will happen to the bottle after the experts finish examining the text?
Its fate is not known It will stay at the Maritime Museum Photos of it will be put on display It will be given to Erdmann