Eschweiler Carnival Museum
The Eschweiler Carnival Museum is the district Dürwiß the Rhineland city Eschweiler located on Museum Carnival . The city of Eschweiler, which is part of the western Rhine city region of Aachen , is a carnival stronghold with over twenty carnival clubs and one of the largest Rose Monday parades in Germany.
history
The museum has existed since the mid-2000s and maintains the traditions of the regional carnival clubs. After five years of renovation by members of the association, it moved into its current location, a caretaker's apartment provided by the city, on July 3, 2011. The collection used to be in the Eschweiler Heimatmuseum in Drimbornshof .
The sponsor is the Förderverein Karnevalsmuseum Eschweiler e. V. 2007 , which was founded on March 15, 2007 and currently has 200 members, including most of the Eschweiler carnival clubs and marching bands as institutional members. The board of directors includes the president of the Eschweiler Carnival Committee and the Eschweiler mayor.
Exhibits
The museum houses exhibits from the Eschweiler Carnival and Stolberg Carnival , including around 4,000 carnival medals , as well as uniforms, flags and archives from the more than 150-year history of the Eschweiler Carnival. The museum is open to visitors every first and third Saturday of the month and by appointment. Admission is free.
Individual evidence
- ^ Aachener Nachrichten online from February 2, 2012 (accessed February 2012)
Web links
Aachen: Aachen Cathedral Treasury | Center Charlemagne | Computer Museum Aachen | Couven Museum | Telecommunication Museum Aachen | International Newspaper Museum | Beckers Böll Art Museum | Art from North Rhine-Westphalia in the imperial abbey Kornelimünster | Ludwig Forum for International Art | Reiff Museum | Suermondt Ludwig Museum | Customs Museum Friedrichs | Alsdorf: Energeticon | Eschweiler: Eschweiler Carnival Museum | Municipal Art Collection Eschweiler | Monschau: Brauerei-Museum Felsenkeller | Printing Museum Weiss | Art and culture center Monschau | Scheibler Museum Red House Foundation | Mustard mill Monschau | Sparkasse Museum Monschau | Village museum “Uraalt Scholl” | Roetgen: old nail smithy Mulartshütte | Simmerath: Lammersdorf Farm Museum | Natural history education center North Eifel | SAKRALA - Eifel Museum for Christian Folk and Church Art | Stolberg (Rhineland): Museum of Local History and Crafts, Burg Stolberg | Museum Zinkhütter Hof
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 28 ″ N , 6 ° 17 ′ 1 ″ E