Ships open daily from March 15 to October 31 from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Outlook: "Ship Realms – The Ocean and Us"
Opening hours: daily 10 am to 6 pm, Ships daily 10 AM till 5.45 PM +++ special opening hours in June 2025 +++
10 euros, reduced 5 euros, children up to and including 18 years free
Bremen cog from 1380 and the Hanseatic period
Opening hours: daily 10 am to 6 pm, Ships daily 10 AM till 5.45 PM +++ special opening hours in June 2025 +++
Admission: 10 euro, reduced 5 Euro, Children up to 18 years free
Cog-Hall and Bangert Building can be visited. Plan your visit
Museum opening hours: daily 10 am - 6 pm, boats: daily 10 am - 5.45 pm +++ please note the special opening hours in June 2025 +++
Museum price: 10 euros, reduced 5 euros, free for all under 18s, guided tours included in the admission price
Ships in the museum harbor: free admission
NEW: Free admission for everyone up to 18.
News from the museum
-Call for Papers: Planetary Waters
The call for papers is currently open for the conference “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”, which will take place in Munich from October 22 to 24, 2025.
Mayday! - When ships fail
The project “Disasters at sea and the maritime culture of remembrance in the 20th and 21st centuries” examines how shipping disasters influence people's view of the sea and what role the memory of these events plays in this.
Dr. Frederic Theis in conversation
The award-winning historian, archaeologist and filmmaker Dr. Sam Willis came all the way from Great Britain to interview Dr. Frederic Theis. Topic: The Bremen cog.
With OSIRIS to the joint collection
OSIRIS is a consortium and collaboration project involving (currently) 17 host and additional partner institutions, working together to establish the first global foundation for an integrated, interdisciplinary infrastructure for collections, information, and research.
Free admission for everyone up to 18 in the anniversary year
New: In the anniversary year, children and young people can now enjoy free admission to the museum.
Positive evaluation
Following the completion of the regular scientific evaluation, the Senate of the Leibniz Association has decided to continue the federal and state funding of the DSM.
Tony Brunt visits research depot and DSM exhibition
DSM colonialism researcher Tobias Goebel and historian Tony Brunt leafed through historical photo albums to find answers to the situation in Samoa at the time of German colonialism. Brunt also visited the POINTS OF VIEW exhibition at the Hafenmuseum Bremen and invited students to a discussion.
Window into the history of research shipping
Almost 100 years after the German Atlantic Expedition with the research vessel METEOR I, the DSM takes over original recordings of the voyage as a donation from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.
Award of the sponsoring association
In his award-winning dissertation, Dr. Philipp Grassel uses archaeological and historical sources to show the extent to which the Hanseatic merchants shaped life on the Faroe and Shetland Islands and on Iceland.
Our research
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The German Maritime Museum is one of eight Leibniz research museums in Germany. Our researchers explain and research shipping and make the relationship between man and the sea understandable
All research projects at a glance
DSM-Star von 1380
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The cog is the centrepiece of the museum. Behind the wreck, which is more than 600 years old, lies a research thriller: discovered by chance in 1962 in the mud of the Weser, the complex salvage took three years. Afterwards, a team of restorers assembled the 2000 individual parts. To prevent the brittle oak wood from shrinking, the wreck floated in a tank filled with preservative for 18 years; in 1999 the liquid was drained and the construction removed. The cog remains an exciting object of research for scientists from all over the world and is considered the best-preserved trading ship of the Middle Ages