List of museums in the Aachen city region

The list of museums in the Aachen city region includes current and former museums in the Aachen city region . You have, among other things, the local history , industrial development and art history on the topic.

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designation	Location (city, district)	Remarks
Aachen Cathedral Treasury	Aachen ( location )	houses the Aachen Cathedral Treasure, one of the most important collections of ecclesiastical cultural treasures in Europe. The cathedral treasury is a stop on the Route Charlemagne
Büchel Museum	Aachen ( location )	A museum for graphics and art from the 19th century to the modern age; opened in 2018 in a historic building from the 17th century with an exhibition of around 200 works by the Bohemian painter and graphic artist Emil Orlik .
Center Charlemagne	Aachen ( location )	Since June 2014, the museum has housed archives that document the history of Aachen from the Stone Age flint mine to the Roman thermal baths up to modern times. The museum is also the central point of contact on the Route Charlemagne
former computer museum Aachen	Aachen ( location )	was created in cooperation with the Rogowski Institute for Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University . Collection dissolved in 2009.
Couven Museum	Aachen ( location )	shows bourgeois living culture from the 18th and early 19th centuries from Aachen and the surrounding area on three floors. Refers to the Aachen baroque architects Johann Joseph Couven and Jakob Couven . The museum was initially housed in Haus Fey from 1929 and reopened in Haus Monheim in 1958 . The Couvenmuseum is a stop on the Route Charlemagne.
Telecommunication Museum Aachen	Aachen ( location )	One hundred years of communications technology and a collection of telephones from 1863 to 1990 in the Telekom House , Aachen
International Newspaper Museum	Aachen ( location )	Founded in 1886 by Oscar von Forckenbeck , in the Great House of Aachen focuses on the history of newspapers through to modern mass media. The Newspaper Museum is a stop on the Route Charlemagne
Beckers Böll artist museum	Aachen ( location )	founded by Günther Beckers and René Böll in 2005 in Cologne and Aachen. The two artist museums are supplemented by a virtual presentation area on the Internet and an art magazine for aesthetics, 360 degree art.
Art from North Rhine-Westphalia	Aachen - Kornelimünster ( location )	Chronological tour with insights into the development of the fine arts from a North Rhine-Westphalian perspective from the end of the war to the present in the Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster
Ludwig Forum for International Art	Aachen ( location )	Museum of Modern Art in Aachen and has been based on the Ludwig Collection since 1970, which the married couple Irene and Peter Ludwig brought together
Reiff Museum	Aachen ( location )	founded around 1902 as the bequest of Franz Reiff (1835–1902), professor of figure and landscape drawing. Today part of the Art History Institute of the RWTH Aachen.
Suermondt Ludwig Museum	Aachen ( location )	got its name after the first great donor Barthold Suermondt . Originally since 1878 in the Alte Redoute Aachen , since 1901 in the Villa Cassalette
former textile museum Aachen	Aachen ( location )	was set up at the Komericher Mühle in 2006 and moved to the Stockheider Mühle in the Soers in 2012 . There it will be continued under the name of Tuchwerk Aachen as a public institution of a culture and knowledge location with the aim of regaining the status of a museum.
Friedrichs Customs Museum	Aachen-Horbach ( location )	Center for the memory of border history and stories, with forbidden souvenirs and illicit distilleries
Energeticon	Alsdorf ( location )	Adventure museum in Alsdorf with the motto “Experience energy - understand energy”, on the site of the former Anna II mine in the worm area
Eschweiler Carnival Museum	Eschweiler ( location )	Collection of approx. 3000 Eschweiler and approx. 1600 Stolberg carnival orders as well as BDK orders , plus many exhibits such as old flags, prince and ceremony master costumes , uniforms etc. from over 150 years of carnival in Eschweiler
Municipal art collection Eschweiler	Eschweiler ( location )	Exhibition center of the Eschweiler Kunstverein - citizens' initiative for art in the Eschweiler valley station ; Promotion of young up-and-coming artists in the field of fine arts
Former Felsenkeller brewery museum	Monschau ( location )	A museum about the art of brewing beer over the last 150 years and a collection of historical brewery equipment. A special feature of the brewery is the large rock cellar, which was blown up in the Schieferberg in 1830. With effect from February 24, 2019, the museum and the attached brewery were closed as no successor could be found to continue.
Art and culture center Monschau	Monschau ( location )	is an institution of the Aachen city region , which was founded in 2002 as a museum , studio and start-up center for artists . In the meantime, the focus on photography has developed, and the rooms in a historic building in Monschau are used exclusively for exhibition presentations and as a meeting place.
Scheibler Museum Red House Foundation	Monschau ( location )	The house shows interiors of upscale living culture as the cultural heritage of the drapery region.
Sparkasse Museum Monschau	Monschau ( location )	In three small rooms in a corner of the customer hall of the Sparkasse, various exhibits from the history of the Monschauer Sparkasse (formerly also known as Sparkasse Montjoie) in particular and from the history of the Sparkasse finance group in general are presented.
Printing Museum Weiss	Monschau - Imgenbroich ( location )	A journey through time into the development of printing - from the more than 5000 years old Chinese characters to the Egyptian hieroglyphs to the modern age, ultra-modern web offset printing
former Monschau Music Museum	Monschau - Imgenbroich ( location )	Museum for mechanical or self-playing musical instruments ; Temporarily closed 2013, 2014 move to Beeskow there reopened in May 2018 as the Museum of Music Beeskow in Beeskow Castle
Village museum "Uraalt Scholl"	Monschau-Mützenich ( location )	A local history museum, which shows a piece of Mützenich village history and shows how the ancestors once lived and worked.
Old nail forge Mulartshütte	Roetgen - Mulartshütte ( location )	Documents on the history of the ironworks in Mulartshütte and mineral collection from the North Eifel region
SAKRALA - Eifel Museum for Christian folk and church art	Simmerath - Huppenbroich ( location )	A collection of objects of religious life such as crosses, pictures, representations of angels, holy water fonts, figures of saints, rosaries, cribs and other exhibits. It is currently housed in the old Huppenbroich sacristy.
Lammersdorf Farm Museum	Simmerath - Lammersdorf ( location )	A museum for agricultural culture run by the “Association for Local History and Village Culture Lammersdorf”. Among other things, equipment, facilities and a bakery are shown.
Natural history education center North Eifel	Simmerath - Lammersdorf ( location )	A collection of characteristic examples of the flora and fauna of the North Eifel and the High Fens .
Castle Stolberg Museum of Local History and Crafts	Stolberg (Rhld.) ( Location )	Local history and craft museum in the Torburg with exhibits on glass, copper, brass and soap production as well as information about the special geology of Stolberg .
Museum Zinkhütter Hof	Stolberg (Rhld.) - Münsterbusch ( location )	Museum for industrial, economic and social history of the Aachen district