LVR-Industriemuseum

Om museet

The Landschaftsverband Rheinland founded the museum in 1984 under the name Rheinisches Industriemuseum, when numerous mines and factories in the Rhineland were shutting down. At the same time, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe built up its own industrial museum; together, the two associations made North Rhine-Westphalia a pioneer in industrial heritage preservation. The guiding idea was to tell industrial history at the original sites – in preserved factories, workshops and settlements.

The first site, in 1986, was the Gesenkschmiede Hendrichs in Solingen, which began demonstration operation. In the late 1990s followed the Kraftwerk Ermen & Engels in Engelskirchen, the Textilfabrik Cromford in Ratingen, the Zinkfabrik Altenberg in Oberhausen, the Papiermühle Alte Dombach in Bergisch Gladbach and the St. Antony-Hütte in Oberhausen, and in 2000 the Tuchfabrik Müller in Euskirchen. In the Peter-Behrens-Bau, the former main warehouse of the Gutehoffnungshütte, is the central depot with more than 250,000 objects.

The Zinkfabrik Altenberg next to Oberhausen's main train station is the seat of the museum headquarters. In the zinc rolling mill, founded in 1854/55 by a Belgian company and in production until 1981, the museum showed a large exhibition on heavy industry on the Rhine and Ruhr from 1997. Since this show was dismantled, the building has been undergoing renovation; from fall 2027, a new permanent exhibition on the living and working world of industrial society, with a steam hammer, steam locomotive and hands-on stations, is to open. The other sites cover the sectors of metal, textiles, paper and electricity and still demonstrate many historic machines.

Højdepunkter

• Eight original sites of Rhenish industrial history
• Running forge hammers at the Gesenkschmiede Hendrichs in Solingen
• Almost unchanged Tuchfabrik Müller in Euskirchen
• Water-wheel stamping mill and paper machines at the Papiermühle Alte Dombach
• St. Antony-Hütte, birthplace of the Ruhr industry, with an industrial archaeological park
• Ten-meter-high steam hammer at the Zinkfabrik Altenberg (to be seen again from 2027)

Grundlagt

1984

Ejer

Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR)

Ledelse

Dr. Walter Hauser (Direktor des Verbunds); Zinkfabrik Altenberg: Dr. Holger Klein-Wiele

Entrépriser & rabatter

Gratis entré: Free admission every first Friday of the month (at most sites)

The Zinkfabrik is currently closed. Admission at the other sites €6–8, reduced €4–5 (see locations).

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig: ingen oplysninger
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Bus stop directly in front of the museum entrance with step-free boarding and exiting; accessible parking spaces in the P+R parking lot and on the museum grounds (access via Altenberger Straße). Information on the exhibition only after reopening. Website information also in Easy Language and sign language.

Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

During the renovation, access from Hansastraße is closed; pedestrians reach the grounds via Familienstraße and Altenberger Straße.

Service & spisesteder

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Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Firmaarrangementer

Op til 300 personer.

Elektrozentrale (up to 300 people in rows, gala 150) and Kesselhaus with stage (up to 190 parliamentary style, gala 140) can also be rented during the renovation, with technology and catering from a single source. Further rooms through the Zentrum Altenberg.

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