Overseas Museum, Bremen

Overseas Museum
Übersee-Museum Bremen

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Established	1887 (1887)
Location	Bremen
Coordinates	53°05′00″N 8°48′38″E / 53.0833°N 8.81056°E / 53.0833; 8.81056Coordinates: 53°05′00″N 8°48′38″E / 53.0833°N 8.81056°E / 53.0833; 8.81056
Collection size	Natural History
Director
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.^[1]

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 (1897–1977), ornithologist
• 1962 to 1971 (1906–1997), biologist
• 1971 to 1975 (1911–1994),
• 1975 to 1992 (1937–1991), ethnologist
• 1992 to 2001 (born 1952),
• from 2002 (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

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