The Universum Bremen is a science museum in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

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. Visitors are encouraged to interact with most of the approximately 250 exhibits. It receives on average 450,000 visitors annually.

History

The Universum Bremen opened in September 2000 near to the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...

. Covering over 4,000 m² the exhibition contains exhibits related to one of the three topics:

mankind Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, an ...

earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

and the

cosmos The cosmos (, ) is another name for the Universe. Using the word ''cosmos'' implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity. The cosmos, and understandings of the reasons for its existence and significance, are studied in ...

. The science center building, with its 40,000 stainless steel scales, resembles a mixture between a

whale Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ...

and

mussel Mussel () is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and Freshwater bivalve, freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other ...

. It was designed by the

architect Thomas Klumpp. The company ''Universum Managementges. mbH'' runs the science center as a private enterprise. About 3.4 million people visited the Universum in the first seven years since it opened. In 2007 the Universum opened a large outdoor area, the ''EntdeckerPark'', and a new building, the ''SchauBox''. In contrast to the curved metallic older building, the ''SchauBox'', developed by ''Haslob Kruse and Partner'', is cubic with a rust-red exterior. It is used for additional exhibitions, which change annually. The ''EntdeckerPark'', the 5,000 m² outdoor area developed by ''Planungsguppe Grün'', offers a number of hands-on exhibits, landscape elements and a 27m-high tower, called the ''Turm der Lüfte''. The concept of the exhibits and the interior design were realized by ''Kunstraum GfK mbH'',

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and ''Archimedia'',

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References

External links

Official Homepage
* {{Bremen Museums established in 2000 Science museums in Germany Museums in Bremen (city)