The Focke Museum is a Bremen museum dedicated to the history and culture of the city. The museum's collection originates from Johann Focke, a prominent figure in the history of the city, who in the 19th century began to collect various objects with particular cultural and historical value. Focke's diligence and foresight were remarkable: during the revolutionary year 1918/19, for example, he picked up a small red ribbon that the revolutionary workers pinned to their lapels as a token of identification. For him it was a vivid source of political news and 100 years later it still is. The collection includes finds from prehistory and protohistory from Bremen and the surrounding area, objects of applied art (Bremen silver, European glass, furniture, porcelain), objects that testify to the history of the city, artistic works (portraits of important personalities of Bremen, city views, sculptures), collections of photographs, toys, coins and medals. The aim is to retrace and investigate various issues: the political development of the city republic of Bremen from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to its present existence as a democratically constituted federal state; the forms of bourgeois self-expression from the thirteenth to the early twentieth century; the economic history of the city with particular attention to trade, shipping and industry; the daily culture of the bourgeoisie and the working class in the twentieth century; rural life in and around Bremen up to the mid-20th century and related forms of agricultural production; archeologically tangible prehistory and protohistory.