Shipping Museum and Telegraph Brake

Shipping Museum and Telegraph Brake

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Shipping Museum and Telegraph Brake

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Location: Brake, Wesermarsch, Lower Saxony, Germany

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December 26, 2023

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The Braker Telegraph is the city's landmark. The brick building, built in 1846, was built as an optical telegraph station to receive and transmit ship messages between Bremerhaven and Bremen.

Today the Telegraph is home to part of the “Oldenburg Lower Weser Maritime Museum”. The telegraph tower contains all sorts of exhibits such as ship models, ship portraits and nautical instruments. Seafaring folk art can also be seen here. These include paintings, ship models under glass and in bottles, as well as carvings and rope works. (Source: brake-touristinfo.de/schiffahrtsmuseum/)

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December 26, 2023

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Experience in the museum
You can find out more about Brake's development as a port location in the Telegraph. The past and present significance of the port location on the Lower Weser is discussed, particularly on the ground floor and fifth floor. Find out how the competition between the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Hanseatic City of Bremen affected the region.
Telegraph, Kaje 8, 26919 Brake - ground floor etc.
Opening times are as follows:
April 1st - October 31st
Tuesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m

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December 26, 2023

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Since 1960, the Telegraph has been the headquarters of the Oldenburg Lower Weser Shipping Museum. It was reopened in 2014 after extensive renovation and modernization of the permanent exhibition.

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