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) |
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Aquazoo - Löbbecke Museum | Natural History Museum | 364,969 | |
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movie museum | Art museum | 57,957 | |
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city Museum | Local history museum | 36,776 | |
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Hetjens Museum - German Ceramic Museum | Art museum | 24,953 | |
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Heinrich Heine Institute | Special cultural history museum | 20,029 | |
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Theater museum | Art museum | 18,385 | |
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Reminder and memorial Düsseldorf | historical Museum | 16,551 | |
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Goethe Museum in Jägerhof Palace | Special cultural history museum | 16.006 | |
total | 555,626 |
Other public museums and collections
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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) | |
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Art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia
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Art museum | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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Museum of Art Palace | Art museum | Foundation, endowment | 149,868 |
Benrath Palace and Park
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Cultural and natural knowledge. Museums | Foundation, endowment | 98,398 | |
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Collections of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
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Cultural and natural knowledge. Collections | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
Collections of the Düsseldorf Art Academy
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Cultural knowledge. collection | State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
Private museums
museum | Type | carrier | Visitors (2010) | |
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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
Art and exhibition halls
museum | subjects | carrier | Visitors (2010) | |
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NRW forum for culture and economy | Contemporary art , fashion, design and architecture | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | 86,061 |
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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
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (collections) · University collections in Germany. In: universitaetssammlungen.de. Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology , accessed on December 7, 2019 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Monika Schnetkamp: KAI10 | ATHENA FOUNDATION. In: kaistrasse10.de. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .