Museums in the Ruhr area

This page gives an overview of the museums in the Ruhr area . With over 200 museums , the Ruhr area forms one of the largest and most extensive museum landscapes in Germany.

The spectrum of museums and exhibitions in the Ruhr area ranges from archaeological collections and church treasures to contemporary art museums; from local history museums to natural history, technology and industrial museums, to specialty museums, mainstream and curiosities. The focus of the museums and exhibitions lies in the medieval and industrial past of the metropolitan region, as well as its present post-industrial, cultural diversity. In recent years - but especially since the events of the RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture , a more integrated museum landscape has emerged in the Ruhr Metropolis . In addition, many industrial monuments without a fixed exhibition offer can be accessed via the Route of Industrial Culture.

Opened in 1883, the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund is the oldest museum in the metropolitan region; the Folkwang Museum is now the largest museum in the region with around 800,000 annual visitors. The main sponsors of the museums are the cities and municipalities of the Ruhr area, but also various federal agencies, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the regional associations for Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) and the Rhineland (LVR), as well as numerous commercial enterprises and non-profit foundations and associations. The museums are assigned according to their main collection areas or focal points and the museum types defined by the Institute for Museum Research .

Museums

Folklore and local history museums

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  Historical place Humberghaus

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  Hagen Open Air Museum

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  Strünkede Castle

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Historical place Humberghaus	Jewish history place	Thingden	Heimatverein Dingden	1300 (year 2015)
	LWL open-air museum Hagen	open air museum	Hagen	Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe	144,000
	Emschertal Museum	Regional museum	Herne	City of Herne
	Strünkede Castle
	Municipal gallery in Strünkede Castle Park
	Wanne-Eickel Local History and Natural History Museum
	Ruhr Valley Museum	Regional museum	Swords	City of Schwerte
	Hellweg Museum	Regional museum	Unna	City of Unna
	Vestisches Museum	Regional museum	Recklinghausen	City of Recklinghausen
	Bergkamen City Museum	Local history museum	Bergkamen	City of Bergkamen
	Breckerfeld local history museum	Local history museum	Breckerfeld	City of Breckerfeld
	Bislich local history museum	Local history museum	Wesel	City of Wesel
	Helfs Hof local history museum	Local history museum	Bochum	City of Bochum
	Hermann Grochtmann Museum	Local history museum	Dates	City dates
	Voswinckelshof Museum	Local history museum	Dinslaken	City of Dinslaken
	Museum of the City of Gladbeck in Wittringen Castle	Local history museum	Gladbeck	City of Gladbeck
	Museum of the City of Lünen	Local history museum	Luenen	City of Lünen
	House of City History	Local history museum	Came	City of Kamen
	City Museum Hattingen	Local history museum	Hattingen	City of Hattingen
	Marl City and Local History Museum	Local history museum	Marl	City of Marl
	Karl Pollender City Museum	Local history museum	Werne	City of Werne
	Waltrop Local History Museum	Local history museum	Waltrop	Heimatverein Waltrop
	Mining Museum	Local history museum	Luenen	Multicultural Forum e. V.

Museums that are open irregularly or can only be visited by prior arrangement:

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Ribbon weaving museum Elfringhausen		Hattingen	Citizens, Local and Tourist Association Elfringhausen und Umgebung e. V.
	Miners Residential Museum		Luenen	Friends of the Bergarbeiter-Wohnmuseum e. V.
	Iron house		Hattingen	Heimatverein Hattingen-Ruhr e. V.
	Friemersheim Teachers' House		Duisburg	Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft e. V.
	1. Lower Rhine Carnival Museum		Duisburg	Main Committee Duisburger Carnival e. V.

Art museums

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  expanded Folkwang Museum

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  Osthaus Museum

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  Staircase in the Dortmunder U

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  Exhibition room in the red-dot-design-museum

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20 art museums in the Ruhr area together form the RuhrKunstMuseen .

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Folkwang Museum	Art museum	eat	City of Essen	800,000
	German poster museum
	Red Dot Design Museum	Product design	eat	State of North Rhine-Westphalia	200,000
	Ostwall Museum	Art museum	Dortmund	City of Dortmund	110,000
	Art district Hagen		Hagen	City of Hagen	50,000
	Osthaus Museum Hagen
	Emil Schumacher Museum
	Museum Bochum - art collection	Art museum	Bochum	City of Bochum	38,000
	Art Museum Gelsenkirchen	Art museum	Gelsenkirchen	City of Gelsenkirchen
	Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum	Art museum	Mülheim an der Ruhr	City of Mülheim an der Ruhr
	Ludwig Gallery Castle Oberhausen		Oberhausen	Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation
	Museum DKM	Art museum	Duisburg	DKM Foundation
	Küppersmühle Museum for Modern Art	Art museum	Duisburg	Foundation for Art and Culture e. V.
	Lehmbruck Museum	modern sculpture	Duisburg	City of Duisburg
	Gustav Lübcke Museum		Hamm	City of Hamm
	Glass box sculpture museum	modern sculpture	Marl	City of Marl
	Märkisches Museum		Witten	City of Witten
	Center for International Light Art	Light art	Unna	Supporting association of the Center for International Light Art e. V.
	Art collections of the Ruhr University Bochum	art history collections	Bochum	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Collection of antiquities
	Coin collection
	Modern art collection
	Situation art
	Collections of the Folkwang University of the Arts	art history collections	eat	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	musicological collection
	Icon Museum Recklinghausen		Recklinghausen	City of Recklinghausen
	Cathedral Treasury Essen	Church treasure	eat	Diocese of Essen
	Kamp Monastery Museum	Church treasure	Kamp-Lintfort	Spiritual cultural center Kloster Kamp e. V.

Museums that are open irregularly or can only be visited by prior arrangement:

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Young Museum Bottrop		Bottrop	City of Bottrop
	Otto Pankok Museum		Hünxe	Eva Pankok
	Museum Island Xanten		Xanten

Palace and castle museums

See also : List of castles, palaces and fortresses in North Rhine-Westphalia

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Villa Hill		eat	Kulturstiftung Ruhr	145,000
	Cappenberg Castle	Castle Museum	Selm	Unna district
	House Opherdicke	Castle Museum	Holzwickede	Unna district
	Lembeck Castle	Castle Museum	Dorsten	City of Dorsten
	Borbeck Castle	Castle Museum	eat	City of Essen
	Herten Castle	Castle Museum	Herten	City of Herten
	Hohenlimburg Castle	Castle Museum	Hagen	Hohenlimburg Castle gGmbH
	Grafschafter Museum	Castle Museum	Moers	City of Moers
	historical Museum	Castle Museum	Mülheim an der Ruhr	City of Mülheim an der Ruhr
	Vondern Castle	Castle Museum	Oberhausen	City of Oberhausen
	Martfeld House	Castle Museum	Schwelm	City of Schwelm

Museums that are open irregularly or can only be visited by prior arrangement:

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Heessen Castle		Hamm	Landschulheim Schloss Heessen e. V.
	Saarn Monastery Museum		Mülheim an der Ruhr	Association of Friends and Supporters of Saarn Monastery V.

Natural history museums

See also : Geopark Ruhrgebiet

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Museum of Natural Science	Natural History Museum	Dortmund	City of Dortmund	54,000
	Natural Science Museum Duisburg	Natural History Museum	Duisburg	Studio der Heimat e. V.
	Geological Museum Kamp-Lintfort	geological museum	Kamp-Lintfort
	Aquarius water museum	Water museum	Mülheim an der Ruhr	RWW Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerkgesellschaft mbH	48,000
	Ruhrnatur House	Water museum	Mülheim an der Ruhr	RWW Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerkgesellschaft mbH
	Sea Life Oberhausen	Show aquarium	Oberhausen	Merlin Entertainments Group Ltd
	Bee Museum Duisburg	Bee museum	Duisburg	Beekeeping Association Rhineland e. V.

Natural science and technical museums

See also : Route of Industrial Culture

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  Headframe of the German Mining Museum

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  Henrichshütte for the ExtraSchicht 2011

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  Machine hall of the Zollern colliery

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  Underground mining equipment in the mining museum

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	German Mining Museum Bochum	Mining museum	Bochum	Deutsche Montan Technologie für Rohstoff, Energie, Umwelt e. V.	370,000
	Zeiss Planetarium Bochum	planetarium	Bochum	Carl Zeiss AG	140,000
	LWL industrial museum	Industrial museum		Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe
	Zollern colliery		Dortmund		92,000
	Hannover colliery		Bochum		34,000
	Nightingale colliery		Witten		42,000
	Henrichenburg ship lift		Waltrop		78,000
	Henrichshütte		Hattingen		104,000
	LVR Industrial Museum Oberhausen	Industrial museum	Oberhausen	Regional Association of Rhineland	60,000
	Altenberg zinc factory
	Museum St. Antony Hut
	St. Antony Industrial Archaeological Park
	Eisenheim Museum in the Eisenheim housing estate
	Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum	Railway Museum	Bochum	German Society for Railway History V.	57,000
	Museum of the German Inland Shipping	Maritime Museum	Duisburg	City of Duisburg
	RWE Technology Museum "Electricity and Life"	Technology museum	Recklinghausen	RWE AG
	Radio Museum Duisburg	Technology museum	Duisburg	Friends of the Radiomuseum Duisburg e. V.
	Chain forge museum Fröndenberg	Technology museum	Fröndenberg / Ruhr	Förderverein Kulturzentrum Fröndenberg / Ruhr e. V.
	DASA - Working World Exhibition	Technology museum	Dortmund	Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health	200,000
	Collections of the Ruhr University Bochum	cultural and natural science collections	Bochum	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Botanical Garden of the Ruhr University Bochum
	herbarium
	Medical history collection of the Ruhr University Bochum
	Mineralogical collections
	Prehistoric and Protohistoric Collection
	Collections of the Technical University of Dortmund	art and natural science collections	Dortmund	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	A: AI Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering NRW
	Oer-Erkenschwick Mining and History Museum	Mining museum	Oer-Erkenschwick	Mining and History Association Oer-Erkenschwick e. V.
	Museum for Mining and Industrial History Recklinghausen	Mining museum	Recklinghausen	Association for Mining and Industrial History Recklinghausen e. V.
	Rheinhauser mining collection	Mining museum	Duisburg	Rheinhauser Bergbausammlung e. V.
	Mining collection in the Volkshaus Rotthausen	Mining museum	Gelsenkirchen	Karlheinz Rabas

Museums that are open irregularly or can only be visited by prior arrangement:

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Automobile Museum Dortmund		Dortmund	Tridelta GmbH
	Magnet Museum		Dortmund
	German Cold Rolling Museum		Hagen
	Zeche Theresia mine and field railway museum		Witten	Arbeitsgemeinschaft Muttenthalbahn e. V.
	Ennepetal Industrial Museum		Ennepetal	Förderkreis Industriekultur Ennepetal e. V.
	Museum at the Erzschacht Marl		Marl
	Local transport museum Dortmund		Dortmund	Mooskamp railway station gGmbH
	Telephone Museum Bochum		Bochum	Telekom-Historik Bochum e. V.

Closed museums or with a former seat or location in the Ruhr area:

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Lower Rhine motorcycle museum		Moers	Anton and Käthe Schuth

Historical and archaeological museums

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  Xanten Archaeological Park

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  Xanten Roman Museum

See also : History of the Ruhr area

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	LVR Archaeological Park Xanten	archaeological museum	Xanten	Regional Association of Rhineland	575,000
	LWL Museum of Archeology	archaeological museum	Herne	Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe	207,000
	LWL Roman Museum	archaeological museum	Haltern am See	Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe	30,000
	Museum of Prehistory and Early History	archaeological museum	Hagen	City of Hagen
	Prussia Museum Wesel	historical Museum	Wesel	Prussia Museum North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation
	Stone guard	Reminder and memorial	Dortmund	City of Dortmund
	Documentation center "Gelsenkirchen under National Socialism"	Reminder and memorial	Gelsenkirchen	City of Gelsenkirchen

Collection museums with complex collections

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  Ruhr Museum

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  Ruhr Museum

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Ruhr Museum	Natural history and cultural history museum	eat	Ruhr Museum Foundation	500,000
	Halbachhammer
	Essen-Kupferdreh Minerals Museum
	Deilbachtal museum landscape
	Show apartment Margarethenhöhe

Special museums of cultural history

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund	cultural history museum	Dortmund	City of Dortmund	121,000
	Museum Eagle Tower
	Brewery Museum Dortmund
	German Cookbook Museum
	Hoesch Museum
	Westphalian School Museum	School museum	Dortmund	City of Dortmund	19,000
	Culture and City History Museum Duisburg	Local history and cultural history museum	Duisburg	City of Duisburg
	Museum of the Prehistory of Film	movie museum	Mülheim an der Ruhr	City of Mülheim an der Ruhr
	mondo mio!	Children's Museum	Dortmund	Association of Action and Play Education Dortmund e. V.
	Borusseum	Borussia Dortmund Club Museum	Dortmund	Borussia Dortmund
	German Football Museum	Football museum	Dortmund	German Football Association	200,000 (2017)
	Jewish Museum Westphalia	cultural history museum	Dorsten	Association for Jewish History and Religion V.
	Museum City of Koenigsberg		Duisburg	City community Königsberg (Pr) e. V. Foundation Königsberg City of Duisburg
	Leather and tanning museum	cultural history museum	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Supporting and sponsoring association Leather Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr e. V.
	Haniel Museum	economic history museum	Duisburg	Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH
	Mülheim an der Ruhr founder and entrepreneur museum	economic history museum	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Funding and sponsoring association Founders and Entrepreneurs Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr e. V.
	Postal History Museum Recklinghausen	cultural history museum	Recklinghausen
	Soul of Africa Museum	Ethnological Museum	eat	Soul of Africa e. V.

Museums that are open irregularly or can only be visited by prior arrangement:

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Brandt Rusk Museum		Hagen	Brandt rusk chocolates GmbH + Co. KG
	Bunker Museum Hagen		Hagen	Private museum Michaela Beiderbeck
	Bunker Museum Oberhausen		Oberhausen	Stat Oberhausen
	Market and showman museum		eat	Working Group on Culture and Customs Essen e. V.
	Dinslaken Mill Museum		Dinslaken	Mill Association Dinslaken-Hiesfeld e. V.
	Puzzleum Bochum		Bochum	Robinson
	Bochum School Museum		Bochum	City of Bochum
	Westphalian Fire Brigade Museum		Hattingen	Feuer.Wehrk - Das Feuerwehrmuseum e. V.
	Pharmacy Museum in the Adler Pharmacy		Dortmund	Ulrich Ausbüttel

Closed museums or with a former seat or location in the Ruhr area:

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Atlantis Children's Museum		Duisburg	Europa Museum gAG

Museum complexes

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  Bottrop square

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Bottrop square		Bottrop	City of Bottrop
	Josef Albers Museum square	Art museum
	Square Bottrop Sculpture Park	Sculpture park
	Museum of Prehistory and Local History	archaeological collection
	House Kemnade	Castle and local history museum	Bochum	Friends of House Kemnade and the Grumbt collection of musical instruments V.
	Branch of the Bochum Museum on House Kemnade
	Farmhouse Museum of the City of Bochum
	Kemnade treasury

Art and exhibition halls

logo	museum	Type	Location	carrier	Visitors (2010)
	Oberhausen gasometer		Oberhausen	City of Oberhausen	961,000
	Red Dot Design Museum	contemporary art, design and architecture	eat	Design Center North Rhine Westphalia V.
	cubus art gallery	Contemporary Arts	Duisburg	cubus kunsthalle e. V.
	artur	Contemporary Arts
	Flottmann halls		Herne	City of Herne
	Künstlerhaus Dortmund		Dortmund	Künstlerhaus e. V.
	Kunsthaus Essen		eat	Kunsthaus Essen e. V.
	Recklinghausen art gallery		Recklinghausen	City of Recklinghausen
	Halfmannshof artists' settlement		Gelsenkirchen	Halfmannshof e. V.
	Gallery of the Bochum Cultural Council	contemporary art and culture	Bochum	Bochum Cultural Council V.
	Hartware Medienkunstverein	Media art	Dortmund	hARTware Projects - Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art with New Media e. V.
	Ewald colliery		Herten
	Gallery on the Ruhr in the KuMuMü - Culture Museum Mülheim on Ruhrstrasse 3	contemporary art and culture	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Kunstverein and Kunstförderverein Rhein-Ruhr (KKRR), based in Mülheim an der Ruhr

See also

• List of museums in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Art and culture in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Long Night of Museums
• Ruhr art museums

literature

• Thomas Parent: The Ruhr area . From the “golden” Middle Ages to industrial culture (=  DuMont art travel guide ). 5th edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-3159-4 .
• Sabine Schütz, Regina Schultz-Möller, Karin Thomas: Modern art in NRW . A museum guide. Ed .: Dietmar N. Schmidt. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-8321-7256-5 .
• Julia-Katharina Mundt: Cultural cooperation in the Ruhr area . Goals - Projects - Income. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-6054-6 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-200910081089 (dissertation on the forms of cooperation between the public sector and business in cultural projects in the Ruhr area, Westfälische Wilhelms- University of Münster).
• Achim Bourmer, Helmut Linde: Ruhr area (=  Baedeker Alliance travel guide ). 1st edition. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-8297-1182-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diverse museum landscape. In: Metropole Ruhr. Regional network Ruhr, accessed on April 6, 2012 .  
2. ^ Bernhard Graf: Overall statistical survey at the museums of the Federal Republic of Germany for the year 2010 . Ed .: Institute for Museum Research. Issue 65, October 2011, ISSN  0931-7961 ( spk-berlin.de [PDF; 669 kB ; accessed on April 6, 2012]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Visitor numbers 2010 of the LWL museums , Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, March 30, 2011
4. ↑ 800,000 visitors in the opening year (PDF; 63 kB), Museum Folkwang, February 15, 2011
5. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 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. (PDF; 51 kB), Design Center North Rhine Westphalia, January 2012 
6. ↑ U must be able to move , WAZ media group, January 24, 2012
7. ↑ 50,000 visitors to the Hagener Kunstquartier , WAZ media group, January 28, 2011
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Statistical Yearbook 2010 (PDF; 7.0 MB) p. 212, City of Bochum, 2010
9. ↑ More than 145,000 visitors saw “Krupp. Photographs from two centuries ” ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2012 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. , Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, December 11, 2011 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Annual Report of the Kulturbetriebe Dortmund 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. (PDF; 2.2 MB) p. 21, City of Dortmund, 2011 
11. ↑ Water symbol for the thirst for knowledge  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , RWE Foundation , February 13, 2012  
12. ↑ ^{a b} LVR-Kulturbericht 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2013 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. (PDF; 3.9 MB), p. 7, Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), 2011 
13. ↑ https://www.dasa-dortmund.de/presse/aktuelle-pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen/article/besucherrekord_in_der_dasa_100006037/
14. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2011 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. , Zollverein Foundation, January 12, 2011 
15. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/dortmund/200-000-besucher-kamen-2017-ins-fussballmuseum-id213137353.html
16. ↑ Participation Report 2010 (PDF; 3.3 MB) p. 176, City of Oberhausen, March 30, 2011

Web links

• Overview of the museum landscape in the Ruhr area of ​​the regional association Ruhr
• Overview of museums in the Ruhr area by Ruhr Tourismus GmbH
• Museums in the Ruhr area at Kulturserver-nrw.de

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