Museum Menden
City museum in a Baroque townhouse on Menden's market square – from Ice Age finds from the Hönne Valley to Biedermeier fashion, free admission.
Om museet
The Menden museum was founded in 1912 on the initiative of Friedrich Glunz and is thus one of the older local history and city museums in Westphalia. The first collection items were initially displayed in two rooms of the old town hall.
As early as the end of 1914, the collection moved into the stately townhouse on the market square, which the merchant and mayor Johann Caspar Biggeleben had built in the 18th century. The building is now a listed monument and, with its historic rooms, gives the museum a special setting.
The collection reaches far back into prehistory: Ice Age animal bones and stone tools come from the caves of the Hönne Valley. Further departments are devoted to life and crafts in the Middle Ages, the fashion and jewelry of the Biedermeier period, Jewish life in Menden, and a reconstructed farmer-townsman's house (Ackerbürgerhaus).
Since 2010, the city museum has been part of a small museum network of the city of Menden, which now also includes the Schmarotzerhaus, the Poenigeturm, and the Industriemuseum at Gut Rödinghausen. The municipal museum team is supported by the Museums- und Heimatverein Menden (museum and local history association).
Højdepunkter
- Ice Age finds from the caves of the Hönne Valley
- Baroque patrician house of the Biggeleben family on the market square
- Reconstructed farmer-townsman's house
- Fashion and jewelry from the Biedermeier period
- Department on Jewish life in Menden
Permanente udstillinger
- Mendener Stadt- und Kulturgeschichte – A tour from the Ice Age in the Hönne Valley through medieval crafts to Biedermeier fashion and a reconstructed farmer-townsman's house.
- Grundlagt
- 1912
- Ejer
- Stadt Menden (Sauerland)
Entrépriser & rabatter
Der er gratis entré.
| Grupper | –Group tour (60–90 minutes, 15–20 people): €50 flat rate, combined with a city walk €60, school classes €10. |
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Free admission to all municipal museums in Menden, including special exhibitions.
Tilgængelighed
- Kørestolsvenlig: findes ikke
- Elevator: ingen oplysninger
- Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
- Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
- Servicehunde tilladt
- Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
- Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
- Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
- Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger
Not accessible due to the historic building fabric. Assistance dogs are welcome.
Børn og familie
Velegnet til børn og familier
- Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn
The museum mouse "Melchior Stöbernas" accompanies children through the collection with question sheets.
Transport & parkering
Med offentlig transport
Nordwall · 3 min. til fods
Several bus lines to "Nordwall" (approx. 3-minute walk) or "Bahnhof Menden" (approx. 6-minute walk).
I bil
Gratis parkering · 7 min. til fods til indgangen
Free parking at Wilhelmshöhe (approx. 7-minute walk) and Am Ziegelbrand (approx. 10 minutes); paid underground parking at the town hall (approx. 5 minutes).
Service & spisesteder
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Arrangementer & udlejning
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Planlæg dit besøg
| Rundvisninger | ja · varighed ca. 60 min. |
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| Tilbud til skoler | ja |
| Godt at vide | Group and themed tours (60–90 minutes, German only) should be booked at least two weeks in advance via the online form, by email, or by phone; also tours combined with a city walk, e.g., on Jewish life in Menden. |
