Schnoor - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

The Schifferhaus in Bremen is a well-known monument and got its name from an owner who felt particularly connected to shipping and opened a grocery store on the ground floor around 1920 . It is located in the Bremen-Mitte district of Schnoor in the Altstadt district. The house has been a listed building since 1973. It is usually open to the public on Open Monument Day.

The Antikenmuseum in Schnoor in Bremen was a privately owned museum. In 2005 it was opened in the Marterburg in the Schnoorviertel of Bremen in the vicinity of Böttcherstraße and the Bremen art gallery. With the subtitle “Masterpieces of Greek vase art from the Zimmermann Collection ”, it was a special museum for antique vases and thus unique in Germany.

The Dom-Museum came about as the result of large-scale restoration of the Cathedral. Due to the restoration, new information about the Cathedral’s numerous graves and 1,200-year history was discovered. A museum space was created in historical rooms next to the high choir. The Cathedral Museum in Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral is an ecumenical museum for the history of the Church in Bremen, which was founded in 1987 to record finds from the cathedral's medieval bishops' tombs.

The St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen is a Romanesque church building made of sandstone and brick , which was built from the 11th century on the foundations of older predecessor buildings and has been rebuilt in the Gothic style since the 13th century . Side chapels were added in the 14th century . In 1502 the transformation into a late Gothic hall church began which, however, did not get beyond a new north aisle when the Reformation stopped further expansion.

The Kunsthalle Bremen is an important German art museum that has earned a high reputation through changing exhibitions. The museum is located in close proximity to Bremen's old town in the ramparts on the “culture mile”. The sponsor is the non-profit art association in Bremen - the Kunsthalle Bremen is the only museum in Germany with an extensive art collection from the 14th to 21st centuries that is still privately owned today. The building has been a listed building since 1977.

The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum was the first museum in the world to be dedicated to the work of a female painter. The masterpieces on display illustrate the artist’s extraordinary importance as a pioneer of modern painting. The museum building was commissioned by the businessman and patron Ludwig Roselius, who owned a considerable collection of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s work.