Spicarium
 Spicarium logo |
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| place | Bremen, Germany |
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interactive exhibition
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| opening | March 18, 2011 |
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Culture Office Bremen Nord gGmbH
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The Spicarium was an interactive exhibition on the subjects of shipbuilding and shipping , trade and change, marine bionics and yacht design. The exhibition was housed in the Alter Speicher in the Vegesack district of Bremen .
history
In 1805, the shipbuilder Johann Lange (1775–1844) leased a plot of land on the Vegesacker Aue side, which belonged to the Hanseatic city of Bremen , and founded a shipyard there. Lange bought this property in 1814 and had the old warehouse built there. The exact date is not documented as the building was a functional building.
From 1821, however, the granary was shown on many views of Vegesack due to its four storeys high and the distinctive roof shape. According to the list of building numbers, 323 ships were built at the Lange shipyard between 1805 and 1893 . In addition, the hull of one of the first machine-operated steamers in Germany, Die Weser , was built in 1816/1817 at the Lange shipyard.
The municipality of Bremen acquired the warehouse, which was built in the classicism style, in 1994 and had it renovated between 1995 and 1999. The warehouse has been a listed building since 1997 . Between 2009 and 2010, a steel and glass staircase with a lift was constructed on the east side of the building.
On March 18, 2011, the interactive exhibition Spicarium, which was designed by the Institute for New Dimensions (IND), opened on the lower two floors of the old warehouse on 500 square meters . The name Spicarium is derived from the Latin word spicarium for memory. The modern meaning of the term memory also plays a role here: The old warehouse no longer only stores goods, but also data, information and knowledge.
The Spicarium logo was designed by Andreas Wilhelm from Studio 37. He worked with a color palette of different water tones and contrasted them with a brick red.
Since the opening in 2011, the annual target of 30,000 visitors has mostly been clearly missed. In 2014, only around 6,500 cards were sold and a financial injection of € 165,000 was necessary to keep operations going. In November 2015, therefore, discussions began about the closure of the Spicarium in the Bremen economic department, during which it was decided to close the museum at the end of 2015. The Spicarium has been closed since December 20, 2015.
The exhibition
The exhibition began with the expansion of the Vegesack port . A large model and an interactive media table were used to explain how goods were handled in Vegesack around 1648 and why the large ocean-going ships could no longer pass through to the port of the Hanseatic City of Bremen, the Schlachte .
Three different short films, which were shot against the backdrop of the Spicarium, provided insights into the revolutionary year of 1848 , which also left its mark on Vegesack.
In the upper section, the exhibition dealt with the topics of marine bionics, innovations and yacht design. Various hands-on stations showed possibilities for ship propulsion through renewable energies and their functions. Furthermore, research results and studies by the Bionics Innovation Center (BIC) at the University of Bremen were presented in the form of interactive stations and short films . A small maritime library on shipyards, sailing and herring fishing was also set up.
The Spicarium was part of the Maritime Mile. This is 1852 meters long, which corresponds to the length of a nautical mile , and begins at the training ship Germany . It leads past the Alten Speicher and the Vegesack Museumshaven to the Utkiek and the signal station, along the Weser promenade and the Stadtgarten .
literature
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world. The history of the sailing ships from Weser and Lesum and their shipyards from 1770 to 1893 (= writings of the German Maritime Museum. Vol. 33). 2nd, unchanged edition. Kabel, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-8225-0256-1 .
- Press release from Spicarium, Regional Info 01/10 (August 9, 2010).
- Langesche shipyard. In: Herbert Schwarzwälder : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-616-6 , p. 434.
- Ottmar Struwe: The Lange storage facility in Vegesack - revitalization and fire protection. In: Preservation of monuments in Bremen. Vol. 7, 2010, ZDB -ID 2184531-1 , pp. 62-66.
- Christina Voigt: SPICARIUM. Experience maritime knowledge. In: Museum Association for Lower Saxony and Bremen eV Mitteilungsblatt. Vol. 71, 2010, ISSN 0931-4857 , pp. 25-28.
- Ulrich Weidinger: The Vegesack Harbor - Part of the early modern Bremen harbor system. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 82, 2003, ISSN 0341-9622 , pp. 43-67, (also as a special edition).
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ Hafenmuseum Spicarium before the end ( memento of the original dated November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radio Bremen, November 18, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
- ↑ Spicarium closes at the end of the year ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radio Bremen, December 2, 2015. Accessed December 2, 2015.
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 33.9 ″ E