Ship Realms ­ The ocean and us

The exhi­bi­tion is explic­it­ly addressed to a very wide range of tar­get groups: ship enthu­si­asts are just as wel­come as school class­es, fam­i­lies and tourists. A con­sis­tent­ly high demand has been met not only on spa­tial acces­si­bil­i­ty, but also on bar­ri­er-free medi­a­tion ele­ments. The muse­um pleas­es chil­dren as well as sci­en­tists and is a high­light in the Bre­mer­haven muse­um land­scape. The van­ish­ing point of the exhi­bi­tion is always the spa­cious research ship instal­la­tion. Anchored in a for­mer grav­el bed, the abstract­ed research ship invites vis­i­tors to come on board and under­stand var­i­ous research activ­i­ties in the media and ana­logues. A space in space opens up and yet con­nects all elements.

The DSM has an impres­sive col­lec­tion of over 8,000 ships of dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories on the same scale: the Hadré col­lec­tion. In terms of con­tent and space, a ​“sea of ships” opens the exhi­bi­tion with a selec­tion of approx. 3,000 mod­els of the col­lec­tion. Glob­al sea routes on a curved sea cur­tain as the back­ground of the instal­la­tion and infor­ma­tion lev­els on reflec­tive sur­faces con­tex­tu­al­ize and com­ment on the col­lec­tion installation.

In the top­ic ​“Ship and envi­ron­ment” top­ics such as whal­ing and fish­ing are dealt with, while space-effec­tive large-scale exhibits such as a sperm whale and a sea boat illus­trate the diver­si­ty of the sea. ​“Ship and Physics” guides vis­i­tors through the phys­i­cal laws of ship­ping. A tex­tile plane, which runs through all the­mat­ic areas like a ​“ray of force”, illus­trates the rel­e­vance of the basic phys­i­cal prin­ci­ples. Theme »Ship and Equip­ment« presents the com­plex inter­lock­ing of the equip­ment parts of a ship. Three-dimen­sion­al cladding of the shed walls and a floor-to-ceil­ing stage visu­al­ize the vari­ety of equip­ment. ​“Ship­build­ing” shows the life cycle of a ship, from plan­ning to scrap­ping. Large-for­mat pho­tographs and bright titles struc­ture the sub­ject areas, while hor­i­zon­tal and ver­ti­cal hang­ing mod­ules serve as pre­sen­ta­tion areas.
The exhi­bi­tion offers numer­ous oppor­tu­ni­ties to explore con­tent with dif­fer­ent sens­es and is there­fore par­tic­u­lar­ly barrier-free.