Overseas Museum, Bremen

5 douma jiva - 6 months ago

Can't believe I was in there for 3 hours????????Well worth a visit.And there are also plants grown by themselves (seems to be).museum of love

3 Abdulaziz Alawbathani - 2 months ago

It’s worth the visit if you came for the special museums from time to time. The main Museum isn’t worth it at all, it was not clean at all and not organized.

But the special event was very good and we had fun there, as they took a very good care of it than the main one.

5 Anna Nikiforova - 2 years ago

Overseas museum is the museum, that should be visited for everyone, especially children. The exhibition includes very good exhibits from all over the world. The museum is about different cultures. There are also fishes and animals of different regions of the world. I really enjoyed the part of exhibition devoted to the religions of the world. Very interesting part of museum - about the people from all over the world who moved to Germany.
This museum helps people to became more open-minded (at least, I hope so)

4 Annie - 3 years ago

It is a small but very nice museum with one minute walking distance from Bremen main train station. There is an Antarctic exhibition on the show at the moment to April. It is also really good for kids. If you happen to be in Bremen you should never miss this museum ;)

4 A. Thi. - 2 years ago

A seminal approach to make something educative and telling out of one's peculiar and rather shady colonial past: Structured according to continents (and world eras) the Bremen 'Overseas Museum' gathers and presents objects of various fields, be it cultural-ethnographical, technical, everyday consumptive goods, pieces of art, artisanal works, or a vast and dashing number of taxidermists' padded exotic and partly huge animal preparations, often being presented in beautiful naturalist panoramic dioramatic settings. Not missing are tents, shrines and even one Egyptian mummy. The building itself is highly impressive, in the rational Hanseatic way of the later 19th century: Symmetrical, lightful, with enchanting details (for example in the artisanal metalworks). The concept innitialy tended to be encyclopedical and haptical but has been mixed with more social-scientific elements over the last decades. For example, some documentaries on young people from Africa on posters, or videos (such as the worth noticing one staging Sitting Bull's grand-grandson) enlarge the exhibition - which leads to a certain arbitrariness/fuzziness of the concept as a whole. The Übersee-Museum is a complex, affluent storage of human knowledge and (cultural) history. Its aim is global, still, if not even universal. We know well (today) that this goal is unachievable. And so does this museum. What does it actually do? It inspires, and most thankfully avoids the qualitative ranking of eras and world-regions, which here means: It rejects the classification of human beings as superior or inferior, as good or bad. It is stimulating our individual curiosity and it lets us have a glance at what mankind did, has done, is doing - and maybe will one distanced day be able to do. An inspirational archieve for everyone who wants to be inspired.

5 Adam Bindslev - 2 years ago

This is BRILLIANT. Many people go to Bremen for the inner city, the square and the buildings - but Übersee is worth your time. One of the best ethnographic museums I have visited - and just a joy. The dioramas are amazing, but it is really the more contemporary exhibitions that makes this incredible. Brilliant curation! As a non-german speaker I would have loved more english signs ... but that is really just a minor problem.

Dont be fooled. This will take you hours! And they will be well spent.

4 Ali - 7 months ago

I really enjoyed visiting this place, was interesting