Bakelite Museum Kierspe
The Bakelite Museum Kierspe is a museum on the subject of Bakelite in the old office building of Kierspe . Bakelite was invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland in 1905 and was the first industrial plastic . The Heimatverein opened the museum in 2003 to show products made from Bakelite as it was processed in the Kierspe area. Many of the exhibits come from the 5000-piece collection of the producer Carl-Heinz Vollmann, owner of the Reppel & Vollmann company.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 18 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 11 ″ E