Volunteer-run local history museum in the old almshouse (Pfründnerhaus) in Münster-Kinderhaus: prehistory and early history, traditional crafts, and everyday life – free admission.
July 19, 2026 – November 15, 2026
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Bürgervereinigung, the attic shows a selection of posters the association has used since 1986 to advertise talks, concerts, markets, and exhibitions.
Special exhibition
Photo documentation of the flooding caused in the Kinderhaus district by the torrential rain in July 2014; on view on Sundays during opening hours.
The idea for a local history museum arose in the early 1980s, when new housing developments made Kinderhaus grow rapidly to some 16,000 residents. A lecture series at the adult education center gave rise to the "Stammtisch Kinderhaus" (Kinderhaus regulars' circle), whose history group showed the exhibition "Kinderhaus vor 3000 Jahren" (Kinderhaus 3,000 Years Ago) at the community center in 1984 – with archaeological finds and models built by pupils of the Waldschule.
In October 1986, the Bürgervereinigung Kinderhaus (Kinderhaus citizens' association) was founded as the sponsoring association; in 1988 a first local history exhibition opened in the former Uppenbergschule. When the lease on these rooms was terminated, the district council decided to give the museum space in the Pfründnerhaus (almshouse) on the grounds of the former leper hospital. After renovation by the volunteers themselves, the Heimatmuseum opened there in September 1993.
The collection ranges from Neolithic settlement traces through the Bronze Age and early Middle Ages to the district's more recent past. Furnished rooms include a shoemaker's workshop, a postwar classroom, a Westphalian living room, a loom room, and a room with devotional objects. Changing exhibitions in the attic, a nativity scene exhibition during Advent, and the association's talks and markets round out the offerings. The Lepramuseum (leprosy museum) is right next door.
Admission is free.
| Children & teens | –Free admission for everyone. |
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Free admission; a small donation is requested.
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Kristiansandstraße · 5-min walk
Bus 8, 15, or 16 to Kristiansandstraße, from there about a 5-minute walk.
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| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | Tours for groups, clubs, and school classes, as well as special tours, by telephone appointment (tel. 01577 3147735). The neighboring Lepramuseum has the same opening hours. Annual program of the Bürgervereinigung with talks, concerts, a flea market, and a nativity scene exhibition. |
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