List of museums in Düsseldorf

The museum landscape of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf includes a wide range of collections in the areas of Lower Rhine and Düsseldorf cultural and regional history, as well as the North Rhine-Westphalian, national and international art scene. The contemporary art museums in particular have an international reputation and are an integral part of the city's diverse cultural and creative industries . Ten Düsseldorf art museums were involved in the last Düsseldorf Quadriennale 2010–2011.

Museums

Municipal museums

carrier	museum	Type	Sponsor	Visitors (2010)
	Aquazoo - Löbbecke Museum	Natural History Museum		364,969
	movie museum	Art museum		57,957
	city ​​Museum	Local history museum		36,776
	Hetjens Museum - German Ceramic Museum	Art museum		24,953
	Heinrich Heine Institute	Special cultural history museum		20,029
	Theater museum	Art museum		18,385
	Reminder and memorial Düsseldorf	historical Museum		16,551
	Goethe Museum in Jägerhof Palace	Special cultural history museum		16.006
	total			555,626

Other public museums and collections

Gerhard Richter (left) on the occasion of the opening of his retrospective on February 11, 2005 in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K20)

	museum	Type	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia K20 at Grabbeplatz K21 in the Ständehaus Schmela Gallery	Art museum	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Museum of Art Palace	Art museum	Foundation, endowment	149,868
	Benrath Palace and Park Museum of European Garden Art Corps de Logis Museum Museum of Natural Science	Cultural and natural knowledge. Museums	Foundation, endowment	98,398
	Collections of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Anatomical collection "Human and Death" graphic collection Coin collection	Cultural and natural knowledge. Collections	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Collections of the Düsseldorf Art Academy Academy Gallery: New Collection	Cultural knowledge. collection	State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Private museums

	museum	Type	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Maritime Museum	Technology museum	Nonprofit organization	31,972
	Gerhart Hauptmann House	Special cultural history museum	Foundation, endowment
	Museum Kaiserswerth	Local history museum
	House of the Carnival	Local history museum	Comitee Düsseldorfer Carneval eV
	Museum and archive of the German Society for Urology	Natural science museum	German Society for Urology eV

Visiting museums that are open irregularly or only by prior arrangement

• German Plastic Museum
• Glass museum
• Framework museum
• Mustard Museum
• Watch museum

Closed museums or with a former seat or location in Düsseldorf

• Gemäldegalerie Düsseldorf
• Kunstgewerbemuseum Düsseldorf
• Paul Pozozza Museum

Art and exhibition halls

	museum	subjects	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	NRW forum for culture and economy	Contemporary art , fashion, design and architecture	State of North Rhine-Westphalia	86,061
	Kunsthalle Düsseldorf	Contemporary Arts	Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia eV	45,381
	Art in the tunnel	Contemporary Arts	Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia eV	28,870
	Art space Düsseldorf	Contemporary Arts
	Julia Stoschek Collection	Contemporary Arts
	Philara collection	Contemporary Arts
	KAI 10	Contemporary Arts	ARTHENA FOUNDATION
	EKŌ House of Japanese Culture	Japanese art and culture

See also

• List of museums in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Art and culture in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Long Night of Museums

literature

• Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century , Verl. D. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, 1902
• Ulrich Kurth, Werner Lippert : 50 years of advertising in Germany: an event of the German Advertising Museum as part of the project '45ff of the city of Düsseldorf and the Foundation for Art and Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , Westermann, 1995
• Volkmar Essers: Insights: the 20th Century in the Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf , H. Cantz, 2000
• Frank Maier-Solgk: The new museums , DuMont, 2002
• Rolf Hosfeld : Düsseldorf Kulturverführer , Helmut Metz Verlag, 2005
• Marion Ackermann , Volkmar Essers: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Prestel, 2010

Web links

• Düsseldorf cultural institutes - state capital Düsseldorf. In: duesseldorf.de. 
• Kulturportal - overview organizations. In: kulturportal.de. 
• Women's presence at cultural institutions in Düsseldorf from 1969 to 1998. Study. In: cultd.eu. Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf, June 1999. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cultural Industry in Düsseldorf - Developments and Potentials. (PDF; 3.6 MB) In: www.creative.nrw.de. ICG culturplan, 2010, archived from the original on May 11, 2016 ; accessed on December 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} Culture Report 2009/2010, Annual Report of the Culture Department of the City of Dusseldorf. (PDF; 3.64 MB) In: duesseldorf.de. September 15, 2011, accessed December 7, 2019 . 
3. ^ Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (collections) · University collections in Germany. In: universitaetssammlungen.de. Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology , accessed on December 7, 2019 . 
4. ^ Art Academy Düsseldorf (collections) · University collections in Germany. in the database of university museums and collections in Germany by the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology. In: universitaetssammlungen.de. Retrieved December 7, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Monika Schnetkamp: KAI10 | ATHENA FOUNDATION. In: kaistrasse10.de. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .