Outlook: "Ship Realms – The Ocean and Us"
Opening hours: daily 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.
Ships: daily 10 A.M. to 5.45 P.M.
SUMMER OPENING HOURS: open Fridays and Saturdays from 1 July to 31 August 2026 from 10 am to 9 pm
10 euros, reduced 5 euros, children up to and including 18 years free
Cog-Hall and Bangert Building can be visited. Plan your visit
Opening hours: daily 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.
SUMMER OPENING HOURS: open Fridays and Saturdays from 1 July to 31 August 2026 from 10 am to 9 pm
The ships: daily 10 A.M. to 5.45 P.M. / until the end of August on Fridays and Saturdays, and throughout the Maritime Days until 9 PM
Museum price: 10 euros, reduced 5 euros, free for all under 18s, guided tours included in the admission price
+++ On 27 August 2026, the Kogge Hall will close at 5.30 pm. +++
Free admission up to and including 18 years of age + Air-conditioned museum
News from the museum
-HANS LÜKEN has moved
The sea rescue cruiser HANS LÜKEN has moved behind the Kogge Hall and is now clearly visible from the dyke.
Dissertation Prize
In November 2025, Nils Theinert completed his dissertation entitled ‘Expertise under Pressure: West German Submarine Construction and the Control of the Underwater Realm during the Cold War’. The thesis has now won the Georg Agricola Prize.
Weser barges to be documented
To enable these historic barges to be documented in 3D using modern techniques, they were moved from the DSM to Vechta after 19 years.
An important signing
The ‘Open Heritage’ Declaration is a call to action drawn up by 74 organisations from around the world as part of the Open Heritage Coalition. It brings together dialogue, experimentation and collaboration to form a vision for equitable access to cultural heritage.
1.3 million euros for an international research project
The DSM has been awarded around 1.3 million euros from the Volkswagen Foundation’s funding initiative for the project ‘Functioning Citizenship at the Water’s Edge: Everyday Democracy in Global Port Cities’.
Diving digitally with U16
The DSM is closely following the salvage of submarine U16 and is now bringing a piece of the submarine to Bremerhaven—thanks to the museum's digitization department.
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.
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