Iserlohn City Museum
The Iserlohn City Museum is a local museum in Iserlohn . It was previously called the House of Home and is housed in the baroque building Fritz-Kühn-Platz 1 next to the St. Pankratiuskirche ( farmer's church ).
The exhibition
In the permanent exhibition the museum shows a historical outline of the Iserlohn past, starting with the geological formation of the area up to the present. Another focus is the economic and social history of Iserlohn. The museum has a collection of Iserlohn tobacco boxes . A separate room is available for special exhibitions.
After the presentation of the early settlement in the Iserlohn area, an insight into the calamine mining, which existed in Iserlohn since the 15th century, is given. After it had come by mining subsidence damage to buildings in the downtown area and the cost had risen sharply, which was calamine mining end of the 19th century set.
Other important branches of the economy in the period of industrialization were wire and needle production as well as the manufacture of brass and bronze products. Separate rooms are dedicated to these topics.
Another part of the exhibition deals with the Iserlohn uprising of 1849 as part of the March Revolution of 1848/49. It is also about the development of the club, which is strongly developed in the area.
Others
There are regular special tours and educational offers in cooperation with several other Iserlohn museums . You can also visit the old town air raid shelter from the Second World War under the Iserlohn old town, which is in the immediate vicinity of the museum.
The museum received an award as part of the European Museum of the Year competition . The Ankermuseum has been part of the “Prussia in Westphalia” network since summer 2017.
literature
- Fritz Kühn : 1763–1963 House of Home. 200 years of Iserlohn town history. Wichelhoven, Iserlohn 1963.
Web links
Altena: German Wire Museum | County Mark Museum | World Youth Hostel Museum | Balve: Luisenhütte Wocklum | Museum of Prehistory and Early History | Halver: Local history museum Halver | Hemer: Felsenmeer Museum | Iserlohn: Hemberg Museum | German Cave Museum | Historic Maste-Barendorf factory complex | Historic grain distillery Bimberg | Iserlohn Museum for Crafts and Postal History | East German Heimatstuben and local history museum Ohlau | Collection from urban cleaning and waste disposal | Iserlohn City Museum | Villa Wessel | House Letmathe | Kierspe: Bakelite Museum Kierspe | Schleiper Hammer | Lüdenscheid: Bremecker Hammer | History Museum of the City of Lüdenscheid | Phenomenta Lüdenscheid | Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid | Menden: Museum Menden | Industrial Museum Menden | Westphalian Carnival Museum | Plettenberg: Heimathaus Plettenberg | Schalksmühle: Schalksmühle Hunting Museum | Werdohl: Werdohl City Museum
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 21.5 ″ N , 7 ° 41 ′ 50 ″ E