You’re at Bremen, Germany or plan to go there and you don’t know yet what to do? No problem – check out this list of the best things you can do at Bremen.
Play at a fantastic experimental museum looking like an egg: The Universum is an interactive science museum in Bremen, Germany. It was opened in the year 2000 and offers 250 interactive items on 4000 square meters. The three areas of the exhibition are nature, human, and technology. Attached you’ll find an outdoor area with different items and a tower to climb up. Read more…
Enjoy art at a wonderful museum close to the city centre: The Kunsthalle Bremen. It is located between the northern end of the Osterdeich along river Weser and the Stadtgraben (the water next to the former city fortifications). From the museum, it is a very short walk to the main market place. The art collection dates back to the year 1823, the current building was created in 1849. Read more…
Walk through the ancient city quarter Schnoor with its narrow streets: One of the places tourists visit most often at Bremen, Germany is the Schnoorviertel, located near the central market place and river Weser. It is a quarter full of narrow streets and tiny houses where in past days the fishermen were living. The streets there are named after the products that were created in them and the street name Schnoor refers to the production of rope (‘Schnur‘ in German). Read more…
Grab the legs of the Town Musicians of Bremen to have good luck: It is very unusual that real cities are named within fairytales. Bremen, Germany is one of the very few examples as the Brothers Grimm made the city the target destination of a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster that want to flee their lives and become musicians there. ‘Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten‘ describes their story and they never arrive at Bremen as they succeed in chasing some robbers out of a house – which they then decide to live in. Read more…
Visit the Roland and have a look at town hall and the St. Petri church in the city center: The statue of Roland on the market place of Bremen, Germany is one of the town’s landmarks. It is more than five meters high and together with its platform and decorations, it reaches a height of more than 10 meters, making it the biggest free-standing statue of medieval times in Germany. The statue shows military leader Roland who guarantees the city its freedom and rights. Read more…
Take a tour through the stadium of Werder Bremen and visit the Wuseum: The Wuseum is the Werder Bremen museum located at the Weserstadion in Bremen, Germany. You can reach it through the ticket office on the side of the stadium facing the city – and the guided tours through the stadium end here. It is rather small and you’ll have to be a fan of the soccer club to have fun here. Read more…
Do it like the locals and drink your beer outside at the Schlachte: If you want to sit outside at the river Weser within Bremen, Germany and have a good drink there is one main party zone that will be recommended to you: the Schlachte. You will find numerous bars there with outdoor seats and great views on the water and the ships anchoring there (some of them are bars and restaurants, too). The name has nothing to do with slaughter (‘Schlachtung‘, ‘Schlacht‘, ‘Schlachten‘) – it refers to ‘slagte‘, the process of placing wooden piles to stabilize the shore. Read more…
Visit the funfair ‘Freimarkt’ – if it is the end of October: Some cities in Germany have their own events and special times of the year: like Karneval in Cologne, Oktoberfest in Munich or the Canstatter Wasen in Stuttgart. In Bremen it is time for the Freimarkt in the last two weeks of October; always beginning on a Friday. It’s a tradition reaching back to the year 1035 and as the typical limitations and monopolies of markets in the city where revoked within this time frame, the name free market was established. Read more…
Travel the world on a rainy day without getting wet: Bremen, has a long tradition in seafaring and trading – therefore it is no surprise that you can find the Übersee-Museum (overseas museum) directly next to the main railway station. It dates back to the year 1875 and is an ethnologic, natural history and trading museum covering different territories and cultures overseas in Asia, Africa and the Americas. It uses multimedia technology and also presents daily life (like local nutrition) in the discussed geographical areas. Read more…
Take the ferry boat to the Werder and have a coffee at the beach: It is one of the most relaxed places in Bremen, Germany: the Café Sand located next to the river Weser. Only some meters afar you can relax in the sun at the Weserstrand or walk some meters further on to the Werdersee. The coffee bar offers seats indoor and outdoor, is a self-service bar and the food is simple – but it is a very good place to hang out and enjoy the sunshine. It can be found in the southeast of the city centre on the other side of the river. Read more…
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