List of museums in Essen

The list of museums in Essen describes the museums in Essen which, among other things, deal with art, industrial history and local history.

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museum	District	description	image
House of Essen History / City Archives	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 24 ″  E	Opened in 2011. Sponsor: City of Essen.
Old synagogue	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 23 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E	House of Jewish Culture, opened in 2010. Sponsor: City of Essen.
Mining and local history museum in the Paulushof	Heisingen	Mining and local history museum; founded in 1984. Sponsor: Museum group of the Protestant parish of Heisingen.
Deilbach hammer	Copper rotation 51 ° 22 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 12 ″  O	Industrial monument, since 1998 branch of the Ruhr Museum . Sponsor: Ruhr Museum Foundation .
German poster museum	South Quarter 51 ° 26 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 15 ″  E	Collection of around 340,000 posters from all areas of social life and different epochs; Founded in 1974, in the Folkwang Museum building since 2010 . Carrier: City of Essen.
Cathedral treasury	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 51 ″  E	Works of art and church treasures from the Essen women's monastery , mostly from the 10th and 11th centuries. Carrier: Diocese of Essen .
Folkwang Museum	Rüttenscheid 51 ° 26 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 15 ″  E	Art museum, origin 1921. Sponsor: City of Essen.
Halbachhammer	Fulerum 51 ° 25 ′ 43 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 12 ″  E	Industrial monument, since 1998 branch of the Ruhr Museum . Sponsor: Ruhr Museum Foundation.
Copper hammer	Copper rotation 51 ° 22 ′ 52 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 28 ″  O	Industrial monument, branch of the Ruhr Museum . Sponsor: Ruhr Museum Foundation.
Kunsthaus Essen	Rellinghausen 51 ° 25 '33 "  N , 7 ° 3' 8"  E	Art museum; founded in 1977. Sponsor: Kunsthaus Essen.
Market and showman museum	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 18 ″  E	History of showmanship since the end of the 18th century, opened in 1998 on Hachestrasse, previously on Berliner Platz.
Copper lathe mineral museum	Copper rotation 51 ° 23 '32 "  N , 7 ° 4' 58"  O	Mineral exhibition with changing special exhibitions; founded in 1984, today a branch of the Ruhr Museum . Sponsor: Ruhr Museum Foundation.
OKtoRail	Rüttenscheid 51 ° 25 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 29 ″  E	Model railway exhibition; opened on June 7, 2014 in the orangery of the Grugapark .
Phenomania field of experience	Katernberg 51 ° 29 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 52 ″  E	Opened in 1996 in the winding machine house of the Zollverein colliery, shaft 3/7/10. Carrier: Field of experience for the development of the senses Non-profit research and education company mbH.
Police museum	Rüttenscheid 51 ° 25 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 2 ″  E	Police history collection of the International Police Association , founded in 2010. From 2010 to 2013: 3500 visitors
Red Dot Design Museum	Katernberg 51 ° 29 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 42 ″  E	Design museum ; Founded in 1997. About 180,000 annually. Sponsor: Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia.
Red Cross Museum	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 30 ″  E	Internal history of the Essen district association; founded in 1990. Sponsor: German Red Cross .
Ruhr Museum	Stoppenberg 51 ° 29 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 32 ″  E	Natural and cultural history museum for the Ruhr area ; Origin 1904, today based in the Zeche Zollverein . Sponsor: Ruhr Museum Foundation.
Treasury of St. Ludgerus	Become 51 ° 23 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 19 ″  E	Exhibition of late antique, Christian art and liturgical implements of the 19th century in the St. Ludgerus Church , the former monastery church of Werden Abbey ; opened 1979. Sponsor: Diocese of Essen .
Borbeck Castle	Borbeck center 51 ° 28 ′ 6 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 32 ″  E	Permanent exhibition Schloss Borbeck and the princely abbesses , opened in 2006; in addition changing exhibitions of contemporary artists. Carrier: City of Essen.
Sculptures in the Grugapark	Rüttenscheid 51 ° 25 ′ 41 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 13 ″  E	Art collection in the Grugapark. Carrier: City of Essen.
Moltkeplatz sculpture ensemble	Southeast Quarter 51 ° 26 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 27 ″  E	Art collection in the Moltkeviertel ; since 1981. Sponsor: Verein Kunst am Moltkeplatz in Essen (KaM) .
Zollverein Sculpture Park	Stoppenberg 51 ° 29 ′ 4 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 28 ″  E	Art collection at Zeche Zollverein with works by Ulrich Rückriem ; opened in 1991. Sponsor: Zollverein Foundation.
Soul of Africa Museum	Rüttenscheid 51 ° 26 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 22 ″  E	Private museum. African Art Museum; founded in 2000
City Museum Kettwig	Kettwig 51 ° 21 ′ 48 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 23 ″  E	Local history museum in Kettwig town hall ; founded in 1990. Sponsor: Friends of Kettwig museums and history.
Villa Hill	Bredeney 51 ° 24 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 30 ″  E	History of the family and the company Friedrich Krupp AG ; Historical Archive Krupp ; Temporary exhibitions by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation - Villa Hügel has been open to visitors since 1953. Sponsor: Kulturstiftung Ruhr .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Derwesten.de of January 11, 2014: Police Museum Essen - why there was schnapps on some corpses
2. ↑ Homepage of the red dot design museum