Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde
Regional museum of geology, archaeology and history of the Elbe-Weser Triangle in Bremervörde – currently closed for renovation.
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About the museum
The museum's core consists of the collections of local historian August Bachmann (1893–1983), who as a young man was already gathering finds and testimonies of the earth's and humankind's history in his home region. From 1929 he displayed parts of them in his house. As the holdings continued to grow, the then district of Bremervörde provided rooms in the former archiepiscopal chancery building, the oldest structure in the town and the last surviving part of Bremervörde Castle. There the Kreisheimatmuseum opened in October 1960, and in 1985 it was named Bachmann-Museum in honor of its founder.
Since 2001 the museum has been run by the Stiftung Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde, which Bachmann's daughter Elfriede Bachmann founded together with the town of Bremervörde and the district of Rotenburg (Wümme). The collection comprises around 80,000 objects from geology, natural history, archaeology, history and folklore and is considered one of the most extensive for the region. The previous permanent exhibition showed about 800 pieces, including the roughly 4,600-year-old disc wheel from Gnarrenburg-Karlshöfen, the Bremervörde bog body and two whale skeletons about twelve million years old.
The exhibition has been closed since 2023 because the district is renovating the listed chancery and stable building. The objects have been moved out; a new central depot is being built in Bremervörde for them. After the renovation, a newly designed permanent exhibition is to tell the history of the central Elbe-Weser Triangle from the earth's history to the present.
Highlights
- Neolithic disc wheel from Gnarrenburg-Karlshöfen (around 4,600 years old)
- Two fossil whale skeletons about twelve million years old
- Bremervörde bog body
- Collection of around 80,000 objects on regional history
- Housed in Bremervörde's oldest building, a remnant of the former castle
- Founded
- 1960
- Operated by
- Stiftung Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde
- Director
- Ellen Horstrup
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Kids & families
- Kids’ birthday parties: not available
Children's birthday parties are not possible during the closure.
Getting there & parking
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Amenities & dining
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Plan your visit
| School programs | no |
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| Good to know | During the renovation there are no programs for school classes or groups, as the exhibition and museum education rooms have been cleared. |
