Railway poster museum
The railway Poster Museum is a museum in Westerburg , in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate , with location in the reception building of the station Westerburg . The geographic focus of the collection is on Germany , France and Great Britain .
history
The museum's collection, advertising posters from railways from all over Europe, was put together by Wilfried Rink. Parts of the collection were initially exhibited at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Bonn , where they were not, however, readily accessible to the public. In 2013, Rink bought the reception building at Westerburg station and has since set up the Railway Poster Museum on three floors . The exhibition opened on May 15, 2015, and an inventory of the collection is under construction. The museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the "adventure station" of the Westerwald Railway Friends .
The publicly shown part of the collection is presented in different thematic groups:
- Permanent exhibition
- Germany by train
- Classic (" Everyone talks about the weather. We don't. ")
- Interrail
- Scandinavia
- British Rail
- London Transport ( London Underground )
- France
- Other countries
- Special exhibitions
The previous topics of the special exhibition, each with around 20 posters:
- May 2016: "The train has its price - but anyone can push it" (fare reductions)
- December 2016: " Night trains and motorail trains "
- May 2017: "Murder on the Orient Express " (railway in the film)
- December 2017: Intercity and Trans-Europ-Express (TEE)
- May 2018: " Local transport by rail "
- December 2018: "Railway and Museum - Railway Museums and Museum Railways "
- from December 2018: "By train to the plane - rail transport to airports"
- May 2019: "By train on the high seas - ferries for rail travelers"
Course books from 50 countries and international timetables (e.g. from Bradshaw and Thomas Cook ) can also be seen in the museum . An issuance of tickets and Interrail documents will follow when the rooms on the third floor have been prepared.
literature
The information on the structure of the exhibition in the cited literature is no longer up-to-date.
- Andreas Böttger: From collector to museum director. In: Brexposé 11 (September 2015), pp. 35–37.
- NN: Museum on the platform - house of the railway posters. In: Westerwald Railway Friends: Westerburger smoke signals. Information about the Westerwald adventure station. 2015, No. 12, p. 4.
- NN: Museum on the platform - house of the railway posters. In: Westerwald Adventure Station. Westerburg lo (c) kt. [Leaflet] n.d.