Twist Petroleum and Natural Gas Museum
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Museum Twist is a museum in Twist in Emsland , which deals with the extraction and processing of petroleum and natural gas .
history
In 1938 an exploratory well hit natural gas near Bentheim. At the beginning of 1942, the LINGEN 2 well near Dalum found oil in economically recoverable quantities. From these beginnings, the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim as well as the neighboring Dutch province of Drenthe developed into an important European production region for oil and natural gas.
The idea of developing a museum was born on the basis of the region's historical ties to oil production. As part of the decentralized museum concept of the Emsland district, Twist received the approval in 1994 to set up a museum about crude oil and natural gas.
In 1999 the Twist Oil and Gas Museum was founded. Initially the museum was housed in the basement of the Heimathaus . With the completion of the new museum building, the move and reopening could take place in 2009.
The museum
The museum, sponsored by the Heimatverein Twist eV, is located in the middle of the largest oil fields in Germany. In 2009 it was able to move into a new building that is externally adapted to the neighboring homes . A specialist designer conceived the interior design for this technical museum, in which the objects are presented on 450 m² on two levels. The upper gallery can be used for special exhibitions. Large parts of the plant from the oil and gas plant can be viewed in the open-air area at the museum.
The museum has a lecture room with media presentations and a specialist library. It is adapted for the disabled.
In addition to the visual exhibits and explanatory boards, audio guides are also available as electronic guides. You can choose between a short tour of around 40 minutes or a detailed long tour of around two hours. Brief explanatory boards in Dutch are attached to the objects for Dutch visitors .
For the special exhibition Appeared - Natural Gas from Russia in November 2011, original pipes from the Nord Stream pipeline were unveiled and handed over to the museum as permanent exhibits. The pipes for the € 7.4 billion Nord Stream project were provided by the pipeline operator Nord Stream. The Nord Stream pipeline, designed as a double strand, runs from Vyborg in Russia through the Baltic Sea and reappears in Lubmin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The pipes are set up on opposite banks of the Schulsee (right next to the museum). The Schulsee symbolizes the Baltic Sea, with the Russian Vyborg on its north bank and the German Lubmin on the south bank. The imposing steel pipes weigh a ton per meter. In order for these to remain on the bottom of the Baltic Sea in spite of all this and not to float, an additional coating with concrete made of iron ore is necessary, which weighs another ton.
The museum has been certified with the family-friendly museum seal of approval . It allows children to play while parents explore the museum exhibit and outdoor area.
literature
- Wilbers, Hans A., The Oil and Gas Museum in Twist - A technical museum in a home, in: in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 12, Haselünne 2005, pp. 290-303 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 38 '50.2 " N , 7 ° 5' 42.4" E