Übersee-Museum Bremen, Ethnographic museum in Mitte, Bremen, Germany.
The Übersee-Museum Bremen is an ethnographic and natural history museum in the center of Bremen that holds collections from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. The exhibition rooms bring together cultural objects, crafts, and natural specimens in close proximity to one another.
The museum was founded in 1887 as the German Colonial Museum, built on collections gathered by the Bremen Natural History Society during the 1870s. From those early holdings, it grew step by step into a broader ethnographic and natural history institution.
The museum displays objects from Asia, Africa, and the Americas that show how people in these regions have lived day to day. Alongside crafts and everyday items, natural specimens are placed in direct relation to the cultures they come from.
The museum sits right next to Bremen's main train station, making it easy to reach on foot from the city center or by public transport. Plan for several hours if you want to go through all the exhibition rooms, as they build on one another.
The museum makes its own colonial past part of the exhibition, inviting visitors to question where the objects come from and how they were acquired. In this way, the history of the collection itself becomes a subject on display.
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