16 Museums to Explore in Bremen

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Bremen is Germany's smallest state. Two distinct enclaves form the state of Bremen. One is Bremen the state capital, and the other is Bremerhaven the city. Bremen is known for its rich cultural life with many theatres, libraries, archives, museums, and galleries.

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Museums to Explore in Bremen

Antikenmuseum im Schnoor

The Antikenmuseum in Schnoor in Bremen was a privately owned museum. In 2005 it was opened in the Marterburg in the Schnoorviertel of Bremen in the vicinity of Böttcherstraße and the Bremen art gallery. With the subtitle “Masterpieces of Greek vase art from the Zimmermann Collection ”, it was a special museum for antique vases and thus unique in Germany.

The Dom-Museum came about as the result of large-scale restoration of the Cathedral. Due to the restoration, new information about the Cathedral’s numerous graves and 1,200-year history was discovered. A museum space was created in historical rooms next to the high choir. The Cathedral Museum in Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral is an ecumenical museum for the history of the Church in Bremen, which was founded in 1987 to record finds from the cathedral's medieval bishops' tombs.

The Focke Museum is as Bremer State Museum of Art and Cultural History, the historical museum of the city of Bremen. The modern main building, supplemented by buildings from the 16th to 19th centuries, is located in a 4.5-hectare park in the Bremen district of Riensberg. It is located in 4.5 hectares (11 acres) of grounds in the Riensberg neighborhood of the city. In addition to the main building which opened in 1964 and was extended in 2002, the museum complex includes buildings dating from th

Gerhard Marcks House

The Gerhard Marcks House in Bremen is a museum for modern and contemporary sculpture, with national and international recognition. Special exhibitions feature not only classic artists such as Moore, Maillol, or Giacometti but also younger artists, demonstrating that sculpture is an active medium. It presents the spectrum of sculpture from the 20th century to the present. A large body of the work of Gerhard Marcks, the sculptor and graphic artist from Berlin, are found here.

Heimatmuseum Schloss Schonebeck

Schönebeck Castle is a moated castle in Bremen- Vegesack, district of Schönebeck, built-in north German half-timbering. It is located in the valley of the Schönebecker Aue, a Geestbach flowing into the Weser over the Vegesack harbor, which was dammed into a pond in the area of the castle. Today the castle is the seat of the Schönebeck Castle Local History Museum.

Krankenhaus-Museum

Krankenhaus-Museum is a medical history museum in the East Westphalian city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located at the Bielefeld Mitte Clinic in the Dr. Mildred Scheel Park. The museum is dedicated to the history of hospitals in Bielefeld which focuses on the patient in the hospital bed. Personal utensils and the corresponding equipment, treatment, and care aids are also available.

Kunsthalle Bremen

The Kunsthalle Bremen is an important German art museum that has earned a high reputation through changing exhibitions. The museum is located in close proximity to Bremen's old town in the ramparts on the “culture mile”. The sponsor is the non-profit art association in Bremen - the Kunsthalle Bremen is the only museum in Germany with an extensive art collection from the 14th to 21st centuries that is still privately owned today. The building has been a listed building since 1977.

Ludwig Roselius Museum

The Roselius House Museum is the historical focus of picturesque Böttcherstrasse, located in the heart of Bremens city centre. Welcome your guests in the magnificent staircase hall of Ludwig Roselius Museum, surrounded by ancestral portraits of the baroque era. The museum's collection which spans the period from the Middle Ages to the Baroque era includes medieval altarpieces and so more.

Otto-Modersohn-Museum

The museum, originally planned as a memorial in 1974 to make the works belonging to the Modersohn family access to the general public, has developed beyond an estate museum in the conventional sense due to the growth of the collection and the interest of its visitors. In a permanent exhibition, the career from the youth/academy time to the maturity of the late work can be traced. Special exhibitions show and explore certain aspects of the work and its artistic environment.

Overseas Museum, Bremen

The Overseas Museum in Bremen is a Natural History and ethnographic museum in northern Germany. Its exhibition focuses on various aspects of life on other continents. You can see here both nature exhibits, such as fragments of the coral reef, as well as ethnographic collections, folk art or craft products from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania.

Paula Becker-Modersohn House

The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum was the first museum in the world to be dedicated to the work of a female painter. The masterpieces on display illustrate the artist’s extraordinary importance as a pioneer of modern painting. The museum building was commissioned by the businessman and patron Ludwig Roselius, who owned a considerable collection of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s work.

Schulmuseum Bremen

The Bremen School Museum is a school history collection in the Hastedt district of Bremen . It is the supporting association "School Museum of Bremen. V. “, which maintains a cooperation with the Senator for Children and Education. The museum is housed in the Auf der Hohwisch school. Its collection comprises around 30,000 objects, photos and archive materials on various school topics from around 1880 to the present day.

Schulschiff Deutschland

Schulschiff Deutschland is a former sailing training ship of the German merchant shipping. The last German full ship , a three-master, is now a maritime cultural monument all year round in Bremen - Vegesack. The ship carries 25 sails with a total sail area of 1950 square meters. The top speed on engine is 12 knots, and on sail 18.2 knots.

Universum Bremen

In Universum Bremen, you go on an extraordinary journey of discovery into the world of science. More than 300 exhibits let you experience and understand scientific phenomena up close and with all your senses. The three subject areas Technology, Humans and Nature are waiting to be explored here. It receives on average 450,000 visitors annually.

Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art

The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1991 and quickly enjoyed a respected international reputation as the first collectors’ museum of modern art in Europe. With an exhibition space of around 6,000 square meters, Weserburg is one of the largest museums of modern art in Germany. The museum has exhibited works from the most influential contemporary artists in its rather unusual premises. Exhibitions from European collectors large and small have provided insights into contemporary art.

Wilhelm Wagenfeld House

Wilhelm Wagenfeld House, a neo-classical building at the heart of Bremen's 'cultural mile', is a vibrant exhibitions and events center specializing in historical and future-oriented questions about the design and everyday culture. The Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation maintains an extensive collection and archive and publishes books about Wagenfeld's oeuvre.

Map of Museums to Explore in Bremen