The museum's history is inextricably connected to the person August Bachmann (1893-1983). Since 1906 the dedicated autodidact gathered extensive archaeological, folkloristic and natural history collections and founded the basis for the museum as well as a district archive.

The between 1929 and 1933/34 privately constructed museum and magazine buildings became soon too small for the strongly growing collection.

The rural district has made rooms available in the last historical buildings of the Bremervörde palace - the barbican and chambers building - since 1960. The transformation of the private collection of a local researcher into a government supported museum.

In 1985 the county committee of the rural district Rotenburg (Wümme) decided to name the museum Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde after its founder.

In the year 2001 Frau Dr. Elfriede Bachmann and the rural district Rotenburg (Wümme) established the foundation Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde. The foundation's goal is to preserve the museum and the collection permanently, extent and fill it with cultural and scientific life.

Apart from the geological collection with lots of interesting fossilised animal and plant remnants one can also admire diverse finds like tools or jewellery from the Stone Age over Bronze and Iron Age to the modern era.

Thrilling are also the numerous finds from the nearby bog: vehicle parts, jewellery and clothing but Bachmann also included also beetle and plant remnants and bones or horns in his collections and are being presented at the Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde today.

In addition there is also a model of the palace and fortification facility Bremervörde. In the Middle Ages this was the most important castle in the Elbe-Weser triangle.

Contact:

Stiftung Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde
Amtsallee 8
27432 Bremervörde

Tel: 0 47 61 - 98 34 603 / - 602
Tel: 0 47 61 - 98 34 610

E-Mail: museum@lk-row.de