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The '''Universum Bremen''' is a science museum in Bremen, Germany. Visitors are encouraged to interact with most of the approximately 250 exhibits. It receives on average 450,000 visitors annually. <ref name=brief>{{cite web|url=http://universum-bremen.de/uploads/tx_usctextpic/Universum_Bremen_in_brief.pdf|publisher=Universum Bremen|title=In brief - press release}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==History==
The Universum Bremen opened in September 2000 near to the University of Bremen, Germany.<ref name=idea>{{cite web|url=http://universum-bremen.de/en/home/about-us/idea-concept.html|publisher=Universum Bremen|title=Idea and Concept|access-date=2008-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507194228/http://universum-bremen.de/en/home/about-us/idea-concept.html|archive-date=2009-05-07|url-status=dead}}</ref> Covering over 4,000 m<sup>2</sup> the exhibition contains exhibits related to one of the three topics: mankind, earth and the cosmos. The science center building, with its 40,000 stainless steel scales, resembles a mixture between a whale and mussel. It was designed by the Bremen architect Thomas Klumpp.<ref name=arch>{{cite web|url=http://universum-bremen.de/en/home/about-us/development-architecture.html|publisher=Universum Bremen|title=Development and Architecture|access-date=2008-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509205358/http://universum-bremen.de/en/home/about-us/development-architecture.html|archive-date=2009-05-09|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The company ''Universum Managementges. mbH'' runs the science center as a private enterprise. About 3.4 million people visited the Universum in the first seven years since it opened.{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}
In 2007 the Universum opened a large outdoor area, the ''EntdeckerPark'', and a new building, the ''SchauBox''. In contrast to the curved metallic older building, the ''SchauBox'', developed by ''Haslob Kruse and Partner'', is cubic with a rust-red exterior. It is used for additional exhibitions, which change annually.<ref name=arch/>
The ''EntdeckerPark'', the 5,000 m<sup>2</sup> outdoor area developed by ''Planungsguppe Grün'', offers a number of hands-on exhibits, landscape elements and a 27m-high tower, called the ''Turm der Lüfte''.
The concept of the exhibits and the interior design were realized by ''Kunstraum GfK mbH'', Hamburg and ''Archimedia'', Stuttgart.<ref name=brief/>
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==External links== {{commons category|Universum Bremen}} * [http://www.universum-bremen.de/index.php?lang=EN Official Homepage] * {{Structurae|id=20017511|title=Universum Science Center}}
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Category:Museums established in 2000 Category:Science museums in Germany Category:Museums in Bremen (city)