Asia

Events in Asia have influenced the cultures of the Western world for hundreds of years. In the West, the largest continent on earth has Europe as its neighbour. Asia has many faces. These are characterised by tradition on the one hand and modern day living on the other. The exhibition of the Übersee-Museum reveals a world that is looked at from six exciting perspectives, inviting visitors to explore this contrast for themselves – be it the Silk Road or a megacity, traditional theatre or the bright glittery world of Bollywood, and plenty more.

Starting with the religions, the museum’s excursion through Asia takes the visitors on a journey along the legendary Silk Road route, leading them to Shanghai with its futuristic architecture. The great diversity of Asian theatre is reflected in figures, masks and costumes on the one hand and the modern-day media and entertainment industries on the other. In the night-time rainforests and mangrove forests visitors can marvel at Asia’s great diversity of fauna and flora, which is competing for space with the agriculture industry. The foray ends in the Japanese garden, where the Asian life principle of peace and motion is manifested.

A free media guide is available for the exhibit depot. You can use it during your visit with free wifi in the museum or online:

To the online media guide

A media guide is also available for children online and on our rental equipment:

To the online media guide (children’s version)
Group of fugures with green robes in the Asia exhibition
Court of an emperor- clay figures from China | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Matthias Haase
View from above into the atrium, in the foreground two fish made of fabric

Koi-Nobori, Japanese carp banners over "Asia" in the second atrium | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Matthias Haase

Sheet metal shells as part of an instrument

Gongs from the Javanese Gamelan in the Übersee-Museum | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Matthias Haase

Detail of a showcase with clocks and historical photographs against brown background

From and to China: trade products of the Bremen company C. Melchers & Co. | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Matthias Haase

A young boy looks at the life-size model of an Indian tank rhinoceros.

Encounter with the cast of an Indian tank rhinoceros | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Volker Beinhorn

A rainforest diorama with diverse animal and plant life at night. In the foreground an Asian golden cat.

In the rainforest diorama you can observe who goes hunting for prey at night | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Volker Beinhorn

A saiga antelope

The saiga antelope lives in the dry steppes of Asia | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Matthias Haase

Detailed roof structure of an Asian temple made of wood

Eye-catcher in the second atrium: porch of a temple from Myanmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Matthias Haase

Walk-in covered shrine made of red painted wood; left in front of it a rickshaw in a glass case

Considered the dwelling place of the gods: Japanese Shinto shrine | CC BY-SA 4.0 Übersee-Museum Bremen, photo: Matthias Haase

We thank the sponsors of the exhibition