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Digital offerings

Whether video tours, virtual exhibitions or experiments to try out: Discover our museum from the comfort of your own sofa.

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Star from 1380

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

News from the museum

Introducing the Digitisation Team

Pioneers in museum digitisation

What will museum visits be like in the future? The digitisation department has visions and is already ensuring that anyone, anywhere, at any time can view exhibits in detail.

Participants wanted: 19th till 21 July

A MAZE. Museum Online Game Jam “A World in Motion”

Our world is in motion. And that’s what makes it so fascinating and appealing - but sometimes also threatening. We would like to explore this world of motion and shape the future together. Help the Leibniz Research Museums to inspire active exchange about a world in motion with your game idea!

CHANGE NOW from august

Welcome!

A visit from the Baltic Sea: animal exhibits, ship models and measuring instruments are moving into the DSM for the new exhibition "CHANGE NOW - Ships change the world".

New virtual exhibition

Digital intoxicate

The exhibition "Cocoa, Coffee, Tobacco - Intoxicants in the Past" can be visited online.

Press

DSM researches the colonial history of Norddeutscher Lloyd

A new research project sheds light on the role of the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd in the transport of cultural goods from former German colonies during the German Empire.

Press

From Antiquity into the Future

What are the duties of a digital curator? Isabella Hodgson reveals it. A native of Bavaria, she has only been part of the DSM since November 2020, but she cultivates a decades-old maritime connection.

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News

Provenance research on the looted property of Jewish emigrants is extended to Hamburg

The DSM's research work on the whereabouts of Nazi looted property will be extended to Hamburg and financially supported by the German Center for Cultural Heritage Losses.

Presse

First German tide calculator goes into operation

History comes alive: The 105-year-old tide calculator has been restored. Since May 2019, restorer Tim Lücke has cleaned thousands of gears, ball bearings and tidal gears using the new dry ice blasting method.

New home for exhibits

Pack - unpack - arrive: The 380,000 archival records and 60,000 museum objects are in for an eventful time. By the end of the year, they will be moved bit by bit into the new research depot, which is already an eye-catcher in the fishing harbour. The wooden plank façade is reminiscent of the cog. The DSM team is facing the mammoth task of moving all the exhibits, from the button collection to the lifeboat, into the new home and assigning them a suitable place in the 2300 square metre depot.

SEUTE DEERN

Foto: Bernd Ohlthaver

A ship with an eventful history

Wooden freighter, training ship, hotel ship and restaurant: the SEUTE DEERN has had many functions in her 100-year history. Learn more about her history and her fateful anniversary year.

about the history of the SEUTE DEERN

XXL move

Open space installation

Farewell, Philip

Welcome back!

Intoxicating

Closed: Corona break

Man, ship and more

The Bremer Kogge - 600 years of history to marvel at

Man & Sea

Packing moving boxes