Historical museum of the city of Bielefeld
 Entrance area of the museum. |
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| place | Bielefeld |
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Historical museum, city history
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| opening | May 1994 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-457812 |
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The Historical Museum of the City of Bielefeld shows the history of the city of Bielefeld and the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region with a focus on industrial history . It opened in May 1994. The exhibition is housed in some halls of the former Ravensberger spinning mill , which allows visitors to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of industrialization .
In 1995 the museum was the first European museum to receive the Dibner Award for its exemplary exhibition of power and steam engines as the world's best representation of industrialization and its social history . The prize awarded by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is named after the American industrialist and technical historian Bern Dibner .
A motorized sweeper from 1934 from the collection was named Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe in November 1999 .
The museum was the second stop of the revised Wehrmacht exhibition in 2002 and has an extensive photo archive.
location
- Ravensberger Park 2, 33607 Bielefeld
See also
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Historical Museum Bielefeld Power and Steam Engines
- ^ Bielefeld-Info Historical Museum
- ↑ The Society for the History of Technology: Awards, Prizes, Grants ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Dibner Award (English)
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 20.8 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 39 ″ E