Museum locations
Ocean Museum Germany– We are OCEAN!
The sea has always fascinated people. As the Ocean Museum Germany Foundation (Deutsches Meeresmuseum), we have set ourselves the goal of bringing this fascination to life. At the museum locations, guests can immerse themselves in a wide variety of marine worlds.
OZEANEUM
Venture on a unique underwater journey through the northern seas
Since July 2008, the OZEANEUM on Stralsund’s harbour island has invited visitors to embark on an exciting journey through the underwater world with its exhibitions and aquariums.
With its striking architecture – resembling stones shaped by water and sails filled with wind – the OZEANEUM takes guests on a fascinating journey through the northern seas. From Europe’s largest Baltic Sea exhibition and a spectacular aquarium landscape containing millions of litres of seawater to life-size whale models in the exhibition “1:1 Giants of the Seas,” this site of the Ocean Museum Germany uniquely combines science, nature and experience.
Highlights include Humboldt penguins on the rooftop terrace overlooking the historic old town of Stralsund, a vast North Atlantic aquarium with sharks and rays, and immersive installations that allow visitors to dive deep into the fascinating yet threatened world of the oceans.
The OZEANEUM was honoured with the title "2010 European Museum of the Year".
MEERESMUSEUM
Experience the diversity of life in the ocean and dive into the tropical underwater world
Located in the heart of the historic old town of Stralsund, the renowned MEERESMUSEUM invites visitors on a fascinating journey through the world of the oceans. Since 1951, the museum has been housed in the former St. Catherine’s Dominican Monastery and is the oldest site of the Ocean Museum Germany Foundation.
Following extensive modernization, the museum reopened in July 2024 with spacious exhibition areas, contemporary architecture and a fully accessible visitor route. The exhibitions illustrate the origins of life in the sea, the diversity of marine habitats and the complex interactions between humans and the ocean. Detailed specimens and impressive models of sharks, dolphins and whales guide visitors through the many different environments of the seas.
A special highlight is the new aquarium tour: via a glass bridge, visitors enter a modern extension featuring a spectacular large aquarium that brings a “Caribbean reef” to life across several levels. Numerous aquariums showcase the colourful underwater worlds of tropical seas – from kelp forests off the coast of California to coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific.
NATUREUM
Explore the pristine landscapes and picturesque Baltic Sea coast of the Darß peninsula
NATUREUM is located in the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park (Nationalpark Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft) not far from the Darßer Ort lighthouse, near Prerow. It has been a natural history museum since 1991 and houses exhibitions on the Darßer Ort natural region, the Baltic coast and local animals as shown in the “Darß Forest by night” scenario featuring twilight-active forest dwellers. The beach and dune garden, the wetland ecosystem and the accessible lighthouse are surely worth a visit and compensate for the little journey through the Darß Forest because NATUREUM is only reachable on foot, by bike or horse-drawn carriage.
NAUTINEUM
Witnesses of ocean research
The Ocean Museum Germany has been operating the NAUTINEUM on the small island of Dänholm off Stralsund since 1999. The collection site is not accessible to visitors and serves as a depot for numerous original fishing and marine research exhibits. The NAUTINEUM is also equipped with rooms for scientific research and the preservation of dead marine animals.