List of museums in Mülheim an der Ruhr

The list of museums in Mülheim an der Ruhr describes the museums in Mülheim an der Ruhr , which, among other things, deal with art, craft and natural history.

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museum	District	description	image
Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum	City center	The Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum was founded in 1909 on the initiative of Mülheim's patron, local researcher and art collector Robert Rheinen (1844–1920). Important works of art of classical modernism and international contemporary art are shown in changing individual, group and themed exhibitions. The highlights of the collection are paintings by the artists Max Beckmann , Oskar Kokoschka , Karl Hofer , Hans Purrmann , Heinrich Campendonk , Erich Heckel , Alexej von Jawlensky , Otto Mueller , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Franz Marc , August Macke , Emil Nolde , Lyonel Feininger , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , Oskar Schlemmer and Max Ernst . Regular exhibitions with the graphic stock Ernst Barlach , Marc Chagall and above all Pablo Picasso (Suite Vollard). In 1981 an important collection of Expressionists and Classical Modernism from Nobel Prize winner Karl Ziegler was added; also the donation from the Mülheim doctor Karl G. Themel, which includes a Heinrich Zille collection. With these two collections and the quality of the purchasing policy of the city and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from around 1945 - the “municipal collection” has been world-class since then - the museum is one of the twenty RuhrKunstMuseen . The art historian Beate Reese has been running the museum since 2009 . The museum has been closed for renovation work from mid-2018 to probably mid-2022 - a temporary museum is available at Schloßstraße 28-30.
Gallery on the Ruhr - the KuMuMü - Culture Museum Mülheim on Ruhrstrasse 3	City center directly at the Mülheim city park "Ruhranlage"	In the art city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, there has been the KuMuMü at Ruhrstrasse 3 on the Ruhrufer in the ancestral home of the Tengelmann founding family Schmitz-Scholl , which is run on a private basis. The Galerie an der Ruhr / RUHR GALLERY and a studio wing are housed in the building complex of the Villa Schmitz-Scholl on Ruhrstrasse / corner of Delle on over 1,000 square meters . The branches of the Kunstverein and Kunstförderverein Rhein-Ruhr (KKRR) and ArtHub Rhein-Ruhr (AHRR) are also located there. The Mülheim Artist Association (MKB) set up its office in the side wing of the museum in 2015. The art collection and the depot of the art museum are also individually accessible virtually - all that is required is internet access and a corresponding device, e.g. B. smartphone , tablet computer or personal computer .	Culture museum in Mülheim at Ruhrstraße 3 - city center
Aquarius water museum	Styrum	On 14 levels and 30 stations in the former water tower, a multimedia experience about the origin, cycle and manifestations of water is offered. Further topics are a virtual trip through the Ruhr valley, dams, water treatment technology from the E.ON subsidiary RWW or how much water is used for various products. The exhibition is aimed more at younger visitors and families. Much of the information in the videos is from when the museum was founded and is now out of date.
Ruhrnatur House	City center	The Ruhrnatur House is an adventure museum of the E.ON subsidiary RWW. In addition to the animal inhabitants on and in the Ruhr, the topics of climate, regenerative energies and bionics are also shown. At various stations you can observe, experiment and experience everything related to the water ecosystem.
Leather and tanning museum	Broich / Saarn	The leather and tanning museum in a small area of ​​the former Mülheim leather factory Abel shows the development of leather production and the history of the Mülheim tanners' quarter.
Museum of the Prehistory of Film	Broich	The museum on the prehistory of the film is located in a former water tower in Müga Park. It is often simply called Camera Obscura - after the largest walk-in camera obscura in the world built into the dome . The exhibits in the museum tell of the beginnings of moving images such as shadow play, kaleidoscopes and swirl discs up to the beginning of modern photo and film technology (around 1930).
Founders and Entrepreneurs Museum - GUM for short	Eppinghofen	Museum opened in 2008 in the “Haus Der Wirtschaft”, which portrays important Mülheim entrepreneurs (e.g. Mathias Stinnes , Thyssen , Schmitz-Scholl , Carl Nedelmann ).
Saarn Monastery	Saarn	Museum about the monastery life of the Cistercian women in Saarn monastery.
Photocopy Museum	City center	The Museum for Photocopy - MFF for short, with a collection on copy art and the technical history of photocopy is located in the Makroscope cultural center. It opened in 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Museums. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, accessed on June 8, 2018 . 
2. ^ Ziegler Collection Foundation. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, accessed on May 9, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Themel Collection. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, accessed on May 9, 2016 . 
4. ^ Collection of the Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, accessed on May 9, 2016 . 
5. ^ Exhibition - Aquarius Water Museum. In: aquarius-wassermuseum.de. Retrieved June 8, 2018 . 
6. ^ House Ruhrnatur. Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 
7. ^ Leather and Tanning Museum. Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 
8. ^ Camera Obscura / Museum of the Prehistory of Film. In: camera-obscura-muelheim.de. Retrieved June 8, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Founders and Entrepreneurs Museum. Mülheim & Business, March 8, 2018, accessed on May 16, 2018 . 
10. ^ Association of Friends and Supporters of Saarn Monastery eV: Saarn Monastery Museum. Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Macroscope | Center for Art and Technology. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .