Scientific Center Universum

The Universum Science Center is located near the university campus in the Horn-Lehe district in the northeast of the Hanseatic city of Bremen. The initiative to establish an educational center came from professors at the University of Bremen as early as 1996, when a private foundation was founded in collaboration with industrial companies, which was transferred to the management of the city of Bremen in 2013.
The building, resembling a glossy opened shell (whale or spaceship) set on the edge of an artificial water reservoir, consists of a wooden structure made of glued trusses subsequently covered with over 40,000 shingles made of stainless steel. Inside the building, over an area of more than 4,000 m², there are three hundred exhibits divided into three permanent exhibitions (expeditions) dedicated to humanity, the Earth, and the universe.
In 2007, an outdoor educational park was added, and the science center was expanded with a corten box by Harma Haslob. The new section is connected to the original building by a glass cylindrical bridge.