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Digitization does not stop at museum work: the Übersee-Museum is also working on digitizing its collections and making them accessible online for everyone. Not an easy task with over 1 million objects in the natural history section alone! This important work is mostly done in secret and is hardly noticed by the public.
With the cabinet exhibition “Digi … What?”, the Übersee-Museum makes its collection work visible and inviting visitors to take a look behind the scenes. Visitors can get to the bottom of these questions and marvel at the first results of digitization at an explorative media table.
The digitization station is staffed on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. by alternating employees from the Natural History Department. During this time, visitors can talk to Dr. Volker Lohrmann (curator of the exhibition) or Dr. Michael Stiller (Head of the Natural History Department), among others.
The digitization project “Making the natural history regional and colonial collections of the Übersee-Museum Bremen available for research, education and cultural participation” was funded in the INVEST Germany programme by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.
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The installation “Floating Collections” is part of the project “NEO Collections: User-centered. Explorative. Open – Digital Museum Collections in the 21st Century”, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Kultur Digital program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
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Cabinet exhibition
The Übersee-Museum’s changing cabinet exhibitions flank and deepen the themes of the permanent exhibitions.
Admission is included in the ticket to the permanent exhibition.
