Collecting/Preserving

Collections of the Cultural Association

One of the main focuses of the German-Baltic Cultural Association is the collection and preservation of German-Baltic cultural heritage through the German-Baltic Cultural Foundation. To this end, it maintains an archive, a scientific library and a small museum in the Brömsehaus.

Carl-Schirren Archive

The Carl-Schirren Archive preserves archival materials relating to the history of the Baltic Germans and their regions of origin in Estonia and Latvia before and after the resettlements of 1939–1941, and makes them available for research purposes.

To the archive

Carl-Schirren Library

The Carl-Schirren Library contains academic and literary works by German-Baltic authors, as well as works by various authors about the Baltic region, including in Estonian and Latvian. The library also has an extensive collection of memoirs, photographs and audio-visual documents.

To the library

Museum

Since the early 1950s, the German-Baltic Cultural Association has been collecting not only archival materials and books, but also ‘tangible cultural artifacts,’ thereby not only preserving valuable objects from loss, but also making them accessible to the public through cataloguing and presentation, including in the German-Baltic Department of the East Prussian Museum in Lüneburg.

To the museum