Exhibition Areas in the Klimahaus
Travel – Weather extremes – Perspectives – World Future Lab – Cooking school
Bremerhaven, Juli 2025. The Klimahaus Bremerhaven sends its visitors on a world tour through the climate zones, makes extreme weather tangible, explains climate change and provides tips for climate protection. The individual exhibition areas of the world of knowledge and experience are dedicated to different aspects of the key topics of weather and climate.
Journey
The main attraction in the Klimahaus is the world tour through the climate zones. On 5,000 square metres, visitors walk through nine locations on five continents and experience the temperatures and humidity of the original locations up close. The staging of the journey impresses with its authenticity and wealth of information. Visitors experience and physically feel the climatic conditions as at original locations. Interactive exhibits help visitors to easily understand even complex interdependencies in the climatic system of the Earth. The settings and impressions represent exact re-creations of original locations.
At temperatures of around minus six degrees Celsius, visitors roam the Antarctic, while they experience a real desert climate of 35 degrees Celsius in the Niger travel station. The rainforest in Cameroon and the sandy beach in Samoa are tropical and warm – at over 30 degrees Celsius and around 80 per cent relative humidity. In Sardinia, visitors can symbolically change the general weather conditions in Europe, creating heat, rain or wind in the neighbouring exhibition rooms.
But visitors don’t just experience the different climate zones. In films and pictures, they also get to know local people. For example, the mountain farmers Hedy and Werner Infanger from Switzerland or the Tuareg girl Mariam from Niger. Visitors to the Klimahaus also discover a total of 250 different animal species at the travelling stations, such as the Fiji iguanas on Samoa or the Galago monkeys in Cameroon.
Weather Extremes
While the ‘Journey’ along the eighth degree of longitude shows the beauty of the Earth, the new permanent exhibition ‘Weather Extremes’ will draw attention to extreme weather and its consequences from January 2025. The central element is a lifting platform that allows visitors to experience weather conditions such as heat, storms and heavy rain on a journey through various immersive scenarios. Explained by experts and in encounters with eyewitnesses at interactive stations, the new exhibition encourages visitors to engage with the massive increase in extreme weather events. The scientific partner of ‘Wetterextreme’ is the German Weather Service, media partner ARTE.
World Future Lab
In the ‘World Future Lab’ exhibition area, the earth takes centre stage in the truest sense of the word. The entire area is designed as a game that can be played in groups or individually. Every game decision has an impact on the global climate. For example, whether the South Sea island of Tokelau sinks into the floods or whether the rainforest is saved. The playful nature of the ‘World Future Lab’ complements the concept of the Climate House as an extracurricular learning centre.
Perspectives
This section of the exhibition illustrates the interaction between humans, the earth and the climate. The ‘Perspectives’ show the work of climate researchers and their findings, but also explain why it is so difficult to accurately assess past and future events. The section impressively shows the changes that can be expected by 2050 as a result of climate change. This is illustrated, for example, by the future lives of the children that visitors have already met on their ‘journey’.
FRoSTA-Cooking School
Climate protection starts with everyday things. Cooking, for example. At the ‘FRoSTA Cooking School at the Klimahaus’, young people can get active and learn how to cook with fresh, regional and readily available ingredients. Frozen food manufacturer FRoSTA, based in Bremerhaven, and the Klimahaus Bremerhaven have joined forces to offer pupils an educational programmes that gives them a taste for sustainable and climate-friendly nutrition without additives in an exciting and entertaining way. The workshops ‘Bremerhaven cooks’, ‘Moin breakfast’, “Taste the climate! Discover the world‘ and ’Sustainable and healthy living‘ as well as the ’Cooking club” are held in the professionally equipped FRoSTA cooking school. With the ‘Healthy through the school day’ format, the Klimahaus cooking school team also brings its experience and expertise to schools in Bremerhaven.