Overseas Museum, Bremen

Overseas Museum
Übersee-Museum Bremen

The museum
Former name	German Colonial Museum (German: Deutsches Kolonialmuseum)
Established	1887 (1887)
Location	Bremen
Coordinates	53°05′00″N 8°48′38″E
Collection size	Natural History
Director	Wiebke Ahrndt
Website	www.uebersee-museum.de

The Overseas Museum in Bremen (German: Übersee Museum Bremen) is a Natural History and ethnographic museum in northern 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. The building is protected by the monument protection act.

History

In 1875, the collections of the Bremen Natural History Society became the property of the city of Bremen.

Directors

• 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)

References

• von Briskorn, Bettina 2000 Zur Sammlungsgeschichte afrikanischer Ethnographica im Übersee-Museum Bremen, 1841-1945 Bremen : Übersee-Museum Bremen, 2000. ISBN 978-3-929439-57-1

• Official Website
• Peter René Becker: Bedeutende Sammlung von Exoten. Überseemuseum Bremen (PDF-Datei; 631 kB)
• Überseemuseum Stadt-Panorama