Guided museum tours
Bremer Promenaden offers numerous guided tours of selected museums in Bremen and the six art museums in Worpswede. In cooperation with the Worpswede guides, guided tours through the current exhibitions and the permanent exhibitions in Worpswede can be booked. Discover art and culture in Bremen and Worpswede with us.
Here is a selection of the special exhibitions 2025.
Bookings can be made at any time at info@bremer-promenaden.de
Bremen
Museen Böttcherstraße:‘Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger . Emancipation from Rodin’
The special exhibition ‘Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger. Emancipation from Rodin’ looks at key creative phases of the two artists. Both initially modelled their work on Rodin, before later emancipating themselves from him. The exhibition shows the transformation from early works strongly influenced by Rodin’s impressionist style to their own formal language with an artistic vitality and radiance that is still impressive today.
With ‘Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger. Emancipation from Rodin’, the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum is showing the most comprehensive presentation of works by Camille Claudel in Germany for almost twenty years.
The exhibition is a co-operation between the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine.
A combination with a guided tour through the Böttcherstraße is possible.
Group size maximum 20 people
1 hour 120,00€ incl. licence fee
Foreign language : 1 hour 135,00€ incl. licence fee
plus admission to the museum
Kunsthalle Bremen: Remix: Einblicke in die Sammlung
Permanent exhibition of the collection
The Kunsthalle Bremen houses a collection ranging from the Middle Ages to modern times.
Drawings and paintings, sculptures and modern installations form the basis of this collection, which is still supported by the Kunstverein Bremen. A particular focus is on the French and German Impressionists. The guided tour provides an insight into the diversity of the collection.
Maximum 20 people per group
1 hour
Price on request
Museum Weserburg: Monochromy. On the aesthetics of published art
until 28.09.2025
Monochrome surfaces have been part of the concepts of various artists since the 1950s. The exhibition shows different ways of artistically exploring LINK https://weserburg.de/en/ausstellung/monochromy-about-the-aesthetics-of-published-art/ LINKZIEL How far can abstraction go in modern art, how colourful can a single colour be and what religious and philosophical backgrounds drive the artists? The exhibition plays with painting, graphic art, artists’ books and sound art.
An exciting encounter with modern art.
Gerhard Marcks Haus
A museum in Bremen is dedicated to the creator of the most famous Bremen Town Musicians sculpture. Here you will not only find works by the sculptor, but also contemporary sculptures. A glimpse into three-dimensionality.
Worpswede
Spring exhibitions 23 March to 15 June 2025
Barkenhoff: Ursula Jaeger. Painting with threads
One of the most extraordinary picture weavers of the 20th and 21st centuries in Germany. Her work encompasses socially relevant, literary, artistic and religious themes. Tapestries in the traditional tapestry technique are also created using non-textile materials.
The exhibition at the Barkenhoff is dedicated to Heinrich Vogeler’s paintings, graphics, architecture and design from 1892 to 1942. The extensive collection shows the versatile Art Nouveau artist and documents his personal artistic and political changes in his late work. He radically changed his life and painting style after the First World War and emigrated to the former Soviet Union in 1931. He died impoverished in Kazakhstan.
Große Kunstschau: Margaret Kelley. Tapestries from the cycle ‘A leap of Faith’
Margaret Kelley, originally from Los Angeles, was captured by the special light of Worpswede’s landscape in 1991 as a scholarship holder of the studio houses. She has lived and worked in Worpswede for many years. Inspired by the landscape, she translates her feelings into monumental tapestry paintings.
The exhibition presents the collection of the Große Kunstschau. It focuses on the special atmospheric features of Worpswede and the individual characteristics of its painters of the first and subsequent generations.
Worpsweder Kunsthalle: Rediscovered: Hanna Ahrens
A flea market find led to the rediscovery of a forgotten Worpswede painter. Hannah Ahrens’ still lifes, portraits and genre scenes as well as drawings show a painter who defied the rules of art at the time. Her unknown work and her dramatic life story in the 1930s, still need to be researched further.
Haus im Schluh: Colourful wood 100 years of Hans Georg Müller
The cabinet exhibition is extended.
The grandson of Heinrich Vogeler worked with marquetry, among other things. His large-format marquetry pictures and excellently crafted pieces of furniture are a delight for friends of craftsmanship.
The exhibition ‘Heinrich Vogeler, his art, his love, his life’ is of course still on display. It shows the work of Heinrich Vogeler in the context of his artistic and personal life.
Group size maximum 20 people
Foreign language:
1 hour 90,00 €
plus admission to the museum
Save the date: Anniversary exhibitions 2025 in Worpswede
Paula Modersohn-Becker and her companions – The indivisible sky
from 29 June 2025 to 18 January 2026
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s birth on 8 February 2026, the Worpswede museums are devoting themselves to Paula Modersohn-Becker in the context of her Worpswede contemporaries.
Barkenhoff: ‘Kindred spirits. Paula Becker and Clara Westhoff’
Paula Becker and Clara Westhoff’s friendship began in Worpswede in 1898. They belonged to Heinrich Vogeler’s circle of friends. The two young women searched for artistic self-determination and their own form of expression.
The exhibition shows their artistic and personal development through selected paintings, drawings and sculptures, supplemented by historical photographs and original documents.
Große Kunstschau: ‘Future creativity. Contemporaries then and now’
For Paula Modersohn-Becker and her contemporaries, the artists’ colony offered space for experience and development. Many of the artists complemented their training with study visits to Paris.
The exhibition follows the lives of female artists around 1900 and explores the interrelationships between social role constraints and artistic productivity.
It also places these themes in a current context with positions of contemporary women artists. The contemporary artists presented include Künstlerhäuser Worpswede Anahita Razmi.
Worpsweder Kunsthalle: ‘Free and independent. Ottilie Reylaender’
Ottilie Reylaender came to Worpswede at the age of just 15 and thus came into contact with artists such as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Clara Westhoff, Hedwig Woermann and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke and her teacher Fritz Mackensen. Against all odds, she decides in favour of a life in the service of art. Her path led her via Paris to Mexico and back to Berlin.
The exhibition shows works from all her creative phases, which are thematically close to those of Paula Modersohn-Becker, but have been realised independently.
Haus im Schluh: ‘Liberated Muse. Martha Vogeler’
From muse to economic independence. Martha Vogeler first freed herself from her husband Heinrich Vogeler through a new love, then also spatially and economically by moving into the Haus im Schluh. The exhibition presents Martha Vogler’s artistic work in the midst of Heinrich Vogeler’s works. Her social and cultural commitment, her life and her friendship with Paula Modersohn-Becker are rounded off with photos, written and audio documents to create a vivid picture.
A special guided tour of the special exhibition ‘Paula Modersohn-Becker and her companions – The indivisible sky’ leads through two exhibitions combined with a short walk to places of her life in Worpswede.
Group size maximum 20 people
2.5 hours 185 €
Foreign language:
2.5 hours 205 €
plus 5,- € entrance fee per museum
Guided tours of individual museums can also be booked.
Fischerhude
Otto Modersohn Museum
On the 160th birthday of Otto Modersohn: The journeys to Tecklenburg 1885 – 1892
Special exhibition from 18 January 2025 to 11 May 2025
Otto Modersohn travelled to Tecklenburg several times between the 1880s and the early 1930s. It was here that he formulated his new goals and broke away from the traditional depiction of nature. He wrote in his diary: ‘One only sees in nature what one has preconceived, what one wants to see.’ In his native Westphalia, in Soest, Münster and not least in Tecklenburg, Otto Modersohn discovered his vocation for landscape painting.
Otto Modersohn. Worpswede 1890 – 1895
Special exhibition from 17 Mai 2025 to 20 Juli 2025
Drawings and paintings from his artistic awakening to his breakthrough and artistic recognition in 1995 are on display.
In the autumn/winter of 1894, Otto Modersohn created five of the eight large-format paintings with which he celebrated his first surprising successes in his first exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen in 1895 and at the Glasplast in Munich.
Otto Modersohn: The years of great success 1896 – 1900
Special exhibition from 26 July 20025 to 12 October 2025
Otto Modersohn’s ‘Autumn on the Moor’ is still an integral part of the Kunsthalle Bremen collection today. In general, however, it took the press and the public a while to get used to the new motifs of the cultural landscape. What seems like an idyll to us today was perceived as a desert back then.
The decision not to return to the academy in the city enabled the painter to devote himself entirely to the study of nature in all its forms.
However, Otto Modersohn’s turning away from the cities did not lead to a glorification of nature, but to a turning towards it, which he tried to capture in all its facets, including as a cultural landscape.
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