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Übersee Museum Bremen

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Established
  
1887 (1887)

Website
  
www.uebersee-museum.de

Director
  
Wiebke Ahrndt

Location
  
Bremen

Founded
  
1887

Übersee-Museum Bremen

Address
  
Übersee Museum, Bahnhofspl. 13, 28195 Bremen, Germany

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–6PMSunday10AM–6PMMondayClosedTuesday9AM–6PMWednesday9AM–6PMThursday9AM–6PMFriday9AM–6PMSaturday10AM–6PMSuggest an edit

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The Übersee Museum Bremen is a Natural History and Ethnographic museum in Bremen, Germany. In an integrated exhibition of Nature, Culture and Trading, the museum presents aspects of overseas regions with permanent exhibitions relating to Asia, South Pacific/Oceania, Americas and Africa. Since 1993, the building itself is protected by the monument protection act.

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History

In 1875, the collections of the Bremen Natural History Society became the property of the city of Bremen under the name "Municipal Collections of Natural History and Ethnography", the library of the society having been given to the city in 1872.

Directors of Übersee-Museums

  • 1887 to 1933 Hugo Schauinsland, Zoologist,
  • 1933 to 1945 Carl Friedrich Roewer (1881–1963), Zoologist,
  • 1950 to 1962 Helmuth O. Wagner (1897–1977), Ornithologist
  • 1962 to 1971 Hermann Friedrich (1906–1997), Biologist
  • 1971 to 1975 Herbert Abel (1911–1994),
  • 1975 to 1992 Herbert Ganslmayr (1937–1991), Ethnologist
  • 1992 to 2001 Viola König (born 1952),
  • from 2002 Wiebke Ahrndt (born 1963),

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