Bremen - At a glance

Museums
A place for
global explorers
New since 30. October 2010:
What makes the world go round?
From 8. October 2011:
Vodou – Art and Cult from Haiti
Weserburg
B4
Museum of Modern Art
* Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen
International contemporary art from
important private holdings, Europe’s
largest collection of art publications,
special exhibitions and events.
¿ Tue, Wed, Fri 10am-6pm,
Thu 10am-9pm, Sat+Sun 11am-6pm,
guided tours: Thu 6pm, Sun 11.30am
b Adults 8.00/conc. 5.00,
public guided tours 3.00, excl. admission
Tram: 1,2,3 bus: 25,26,27,61,62,64
h Am Brill
Museum
C4
at St. Peter’s Cathedral
* St. Peter’s Cathedral,
Sandstrasse 10-12, 28195 Bremen
The museum at St. Peter’s Cathedral
has six historical rooms containing
excavated finds from medieval bishops’
graves and religious works by artists
such as Lucas Cranach.
¿ Mon-Fri 10am-4.45pm,
Sat 10am-1.30pm, Sun 2-4.45pm,
last admission 30 mins. before closing.
Times may differ during official church
events, regular guided tours.
b Admission free; guided tours:
adults 3.00/conc. 2.00/children 1.00
Tram: 2,3,4,5,6,8 bus: 24,25
h Domsheide
Gerhard Marcks House
* Am Wall 208, 28195 Bremen
D5
Northern Germany’s number one
sculpture museum. Special exhibitions
featuring contemporary sculpture.
The museum also looks after the estate
of Gerhard Marcks.
¿ Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
b Adults 3.50/conc. 2.50
Tram: 2,3
h Theater am Goetheplatz
Old Pumping Station
D2
* Salzburger Strasse 12, 28219 Bremen
An architectural monument that
documents the history of waste water
disposal. An exhibition of sewage and
disease, of hygiene and engineering.
¿ Group tours (min. 10 people)
by arrangement
b Adults 2.00 incl. guided tour
Bus: 26 h Fürther Strasse
Museum of Antiquity C5
in the Schnoor quarter
* Marterburg 55-58, 28195 Bremen
Superb collection of ancient Greek
vases. The diversity of the subjects on
these painted earthenware containers
offers an illustrative insight into Greek
culture.
¿ Wed-Thu noon-5pm,
Sat+Sun 11am-5pm
b Adults 3.00/children, students 1.50
Tram: 2,3,4,5,6,8 bus: 24,25
h Domsheide
Das Depot
F4
* Schlossparkstrasse 45, 28309 Bremen
Historical trams and other exhibits
illustrating the history of public
transport in Bremen.
¿ Every 2nd Sunday in the month,
10am-5pm
b Adults 2.00/conc. 1.00
Tram: 2,10 bus: 21 h Sebaldsbrück
Speicher XI Harbour Museum
* Am Speicher XI 1, 28217 Bremen
C2
From international port to the Überseestadt
district – the 1,200-year history
of Bremen’s harbour presented interactively
in an old cotton warehouse.
¿ Tue-Sun 11am-6pm
b Adults 4.50/conc. 3.50
Tram: 3 h Waller Ring
Bus: 26 h Speicher XI
Overbeck Museum
K2
* Alte Hafenstrasse 30, 28757 Bremen
The museum has a permanent exhibition
of works by the Worpswede artists
Fritz and Hermine Overbeck, as well as
special temporary exhibitions.
¿ Tue-Sun 11am-6pm
b Adults 3.00/conc. 2.00
Train: RegionalBahn (RB)
Bus: 70,71,74,75,76,78,79
h Vegesack station
Bremen School Museum F4
* Auf der Hohwisch 61-63, 28207 Bremen
Exhibition and activities for school
groups and other groups: life and
learning around 1900; childhood in
the Nazi period; ‘a taste of history’.
¿ Tue+Fri 9am-2pm, Wed+Thu 9am-4pm
and by arrangement
b Adults 2.00/conc. 1.50
Tram: 2,10
h Ludwig-Quidde-Strasse
Wilhelm Wagenfeld House
* Am Wall 209, 28195 Bremen
The Wilhelm Wagenfeld House illustrates
changing aspects of everyday
culture and current design trends.
¿ Tue 3-9pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
b Adults 3.50/conc. 1.50
Tram: 2,3
h Theater am Goetheplatz
D5
Special exhibitions in Bremen
‘Gerhard who?’ at the Gerhard Marcks House looks at the man
from whom the museum takes its name, and the Overbeck Museum
focuses on the works of Hermine Overbeck-Rohte. It’s all about
‘voodoo’ at Bremen Ethnological Museum. The Kunsthalle is reopening
after renovation. Its ‘Edvard Munch’ exhibition is devoted to
one special treasure of art history.
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