Stadtmuseum Nordhorn
Museum of Nordhorn's textile and city history at three sites: NINO-Hochbau, Povelturm, and Museumsfabrik with working looms.
Om museet
The Stadtmuseum was founded in 1994, commissioned by the city of Nordhorn, by the Museumsverein für die Grafschaft Bentheim; today it is run by the Grafschafter Museumsverein. At first it had only archive and exhibition rooms but hardly any objects. That changed quickly: after the bankruptcy of the textile group NINO in 1994 and the end of production at Rawe in 2001, the museum secured large quantities of material from offices, factory halls, and company archives; companies, associations, and many citizens contributed further pieces.
The exhibitions are spread across three former textile buildings. In October 1996 the first permanent exhibition opened in the Povelturm, the dust and water tower of the Povel spinning mill built in 1906, which today tells the city's history and houses a café on its upper floors. In 1999 the Museumsfabrik followed in the Old Weaving Mill Povel of 1950, where volunteer textile workers demonstrate historic machines. In April 2011 the permanent exhibition "Menschen, Mode und Maschinen" (People, Fashion, and Machines) was added in the listed NINO-Hochbau, a spinning mill building renovated in 2009, in which the museum uses about 1,200 square meters.
The core of the collection is more than 100,000 industrial and fashion photographs, many from NINO's advertising, plus clothing made from Nordhorn fabrics, hundreds of pattern books, promotional items, and fashion magazines. Parts of the photo holdings have been digitized. Since 2019 the museum has held the museum quality seal of the Museumsverband für Niedersachsen und Bremen, which was renewed in 2026.
Højdepunkter
- Permanent exhibition "Menschen, Mode und Maschinen" in the NINO-Hochbau
- Dressing Room for trying on historic clothing
- Demonstrations on working spinning and weaving machines in the Museumsfabrik
- Panoramic view over Nordhorn from the roof gallery of the Povelturm
- Collection of industrial and fashion photography
Permanente udstillinger
- Menschen, Mode und Maschinen – The exhibition in the NINO-Hochbau, opened in April 2011, tells with photographs, films, pattern books, and clothing of the rise and structural change of Nordhorn's textile industry and of the fashion world of the postwar decades.
- Stadtgeschichte im Povelturm – A tour through Nordhorn's history from Vechte river shipping to the textile town, with a view from the glazed roof gallery.
- Museumsfabrik – Textilproduktion live – Former textile workers demonstrate on historic machines how raw cotton becomes yarn and finally a fabric.
- Grundlagt
- 1994
- Ejer
- Grafschafter Museumsverein e. V.
- Ledelse
- Nadine Ihle
Entrépriser & rabatter
| Voksne | 4 € |
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| Nedsat pris | 3 €Trainees, FSJ (voluntary social year) participants, students, people with severe disabilities, and recipients of unemployment benefits (with proof) |
| Børn og unge | gratisgratis til og med 18 år · Children and teenagers up to 18 years free |
| Personer med handicap | 3 €Reduced admission with proof |
| Studerende og elever | 3 €Reduced admission with proof |
| Grupper | 3 € pr. personGroup tour in the NINO-Hochbau €35 (evenings after 18:00 €50) plus €3 admission per person; tour in the Museumsfabrik €35 plus €2 per person. |
| Museumsfabrik in the Old Weaving Mill | 3 €Reduced €2 |
| Combined admission Museumsfabrik and NINO-Hochbau ("King Cotton" tour) | 5 €Plus €35 per tour |
The Povelturm is free of charge. With the Grafschafter Gästekarte or the Gastkarte Bad Bentheim, there is a one-time €1 discount at the day ticket desk.
Tilgængelighed
- Kørestolsvenlig
- Elevator
- Handicaptoilet
- Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
- Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
- Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
- Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
- Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
- Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger
NINO-Hochbau: accessible entrance and elevator, accessible exhibition, accessible restroom, seating. The Povelturm has an elevator but is not fully accessible.
Børn og familie
Velegnet til børn og familier
| Entré for børn | gratis til og med 18 år |
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- Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn
- Interaktive stationer
- Børnefødselsdage
On the museum rally, children look for the mascot "Gucki" in 14 places in the NINO-Hochbau – also for families and children's birthday parties. In the Dressing Room everyone may try on historic clothing, and in the Museumsfabrik the old machines are running.
Transport & parkering
By car: access to NINO-Allee is from the Frensdorfer Ring at the "Trinkgut" beverage store.
Planlæg ruteService & spisesteder
- Café
- Museumsbutik
Museum café "Hoch5" on the upper floors of the Povelturm (cocktails with a view over the city); on the first floor of the NINO-Hochbau is Café NINO. Museum shop in the NINO-Hochbau with books, souvenirs, textiles after historic fabric patterns, and an antiquarian bookshop.
Arrangementer & udlejning
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Planlæg dit besøg
| Rundvisninger | ja · varighed ca. 60 min. |
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| Audioguide | ja |
| Tilbud til skoler | ja |
| Godt at vide | Public themed tours "Sonntags im Museum" (Sundays at the Museum) at 11:30 (dates in the events calendar). Group tours by registration at 05921 721500 or kontakt@stadtmuseum-nordhorn.de, also in the evening; tours in the Museumsfabrik last 90 minutes and are also possible outside opening hours. School programs from preschool to upper secondary level. A virtual tour is available online. |
