Outlook: "Ship Realms – The Ocean and Us" from 18 July 2024
Opening hours: Tue to Sun: 10 am to 6 pm, ships closed
Cog-Hall and Bangert Building can be visited. Plan your visit
Museum opening hours: Tue-Sun 10am-6pm, ships closed
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
News from 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.
Treasure from the depot
In the new "Archivalie des Monats" series, a new historical document is in the spotlight every four weeks. Spot on!
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.
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