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 2026.
Bookings can be made at any time at info@bremer-promenaden.de
Bremen
Museen Böttcherstraße: ‘Becoming Paula’
8 February 2026 – 13 September 2026
With works that have rarely been shown before and unknown documents, the museum explores the question: How did the painter, who was appreciated by few during her lifetime, become the internationally renowned artist Paula Modersohn-Becker? Bremen, Berlin, Worpswede and, above all, Paris were formative for the artistic development of this impressive personality.
Group size maximum 20 people
1 hour €125.00 incl. licence fee
Foreign language: 1 hour €140.00 incl. licence fee
plus admission to the museum
A combination with a guided tour through the Böttcherstraße is possible.
Museen Böttcherstraße: Wiebke Mertens. Main Character
13 June 2026 – 13 September 2026
Wiebke Mertens paints portraits in a very classical style. In her pictures, she explores the relationship between self-perception and external perception, nudity and concealment. She sometimes gets very close to her models, but also addresses distances.
Museums Böttcherstraße: ‘Inspiring Paula’ (working title)
from 26 September 2026
The second part of the anniversary exhibition is dedicated to the artists of earlier generations who influenced Modersohn-Becker. Prepare to be surprised.
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
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.
Maximum 20 people per group
1 hour
Price on request
Worpswede
Impulse Paula
From 7 February 2026 to 1 November 2026
To mark the anniversary of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s 150th birthday on 8 February 2026, the Worpswede museums are embarking on an artistic journey of discovery under the title ‘Impuls Paula’.
Barkenhoff: I am / you are. Images of humanity
Paula Modersohn-Becker’s portraits turn ideals of beauty upside down. The painter did not reproduce her subjects faithfully and idealised. Starting with Paula Modersohn-Becker’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Necklace’, the exhibition traces the development of portrait painting over more than a century. The view of people changes, and the role of the zeitgeist, individuality and self-presentation becomes visible.
The exhibition at Barkenhoff is dedicated to Heinrich Vogeler’s paintings, graphic art, architecture and design from 1892 to 1942. The extensive collection showcases the versatile Art Nouveau artist. 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 Respect!
Paula Modersohn-Becker often painted women from rural or poor backgrounds. She was aware of the social divide between herself and her models, and her works reveal an intense engagement with their situation, showing closeness and empathy, but also distance. Taking Modersohn-Becker’s semi-nude portrait of a peasant woman as its starting point, the exhibition explores the question: How do artists actually behave to the people they portray? What attitudes are reflected in the depictions, both then and now? Since the portrait of the peasant woman was painted, the artistic view of social roles, power structures and nature has also changed. The exhibition makes these changes visible – and even audible.
Worpsweder Kunsthalle: Up close. Inès Longevial
The French artist (*1990) prefers to devote herself to portraiture. As with Paula Modersohn-Becker, it serves to explore her ‘own’ identity. Longevial’s often large-format works depict faces, feelings or contemplative moods. The skin acts as a porous surface on which experiences and emotions are imprinted, like a map. After Paris, New York and Shanghai, the exhibition in Worpswede is her first solo exhibition in Germany.
Haus im Schluh: APPLIED. Women and Design
Paula Modersohn-Becker’s foray into applied art was brief. Her sketch for a tapestry was realised half a century later by Martha Vogeler. Creative women in design continue to exist today. The exhibition presents works by 15 female artists and designers in various fields. The creative work of women in the context of Worpswede from 1920 to the present day is well worth a look.
The permanent exhibition ‘Heinrich Vogeler, his art, his love, his life’ is of course still on display. It shows Heinrich Vogeler’s work in the context of his artistic and personal life.
Group size maximum 20 people
1 hour €85.00
1.5 hours €115.00
Foreign language:
1 hour €105.00
1.5 hours €135.00
plus admission to the museum
A special guided tour of the special exhibition ‘Impulse Paula – an artistic journey of discovery’ takes you through two exhibitions combined with a short walk to places in her life in Worpswede.
Maximum group size: 20 people.
2,5 hours 210,00€
Foreign language:
2.5 hours: €240.
Plus €5 admission per museum.
Guided tours of individual museums can also be booked.
Fischerhude
Otto Modersohn Museum
Otto Modersohn‘s early and major works are on permanent display.
Paula Modersohn-Becker. Landscapes
8 February 2026 to 24 May 2026
To mark the 150th anniversary of her birth, the museum is staging a special exhibition of paintings by Paula Modersohn-Becker in a monographic presentation of her early landscape studies. Thirty-two landscape studies that have rarely been shown before are on display. The focus is on the artist’s unique visual language.
Group size maximum 20 people
1 hour €115.00
plus admission to the museum
Further information on interesting exhibitions can be found
on this website under News.