Museen im Kulturzentrum
Two museums in the Hohes Arsenal: Rendsburg city and canal history, and a printing museum with working historical machines.
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About the museum
The Museen im Kulturzentrum combine two museums under one roof, the three-winged Baroque complex of the Hohes Arsenal on Paradeplatz in Rendsburg. The Printing Museum (Druckmuseum) is on the first floor of the west and north wings, and the Historical Museum Rendsburg is on the second floor. The city of Rendsburg is the sponsor.
The Historical Museum grew out of the local history museum in the Old Town Hall and looks back on a collection history of more than 120 years. It shows the development of the fortress and garrison town, from Danish fortification work through the Prussian period to the stationing of Bundeswehr and NATO units.
The Printing Museum was founded from the mid-1970s on an initiative of printing businesspeople from Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. On about 600 square meters, it shows the technical and social development of typesetting and printing over the last 200 years. The letterpress machines are fully operational and are run by volunteer printers and typesetters during demonstrations.
The museum café in the entrance area and a special exhibition room on the second floor link the two museums.
Highlights
- Historical city models of the fortress town of Rendsburg
- Permanent exhibition on the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal (Kiel Canal), with a model of the swing bridge
- Working printing presses, including a Koenig & Bauer machine from 1879
- Printing demonstrations by volunteer printers and typesetters
- Activity stations and children's station, museum café in the entrance area
Permanent exhibitions
- Historisches Museum Rendsburg – City and garrison history with historical city models, plus a focus on the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal (Kiel Canal) from the Eider Canal era to the present.
- Druckmuseum – Two hundred years of typesetting and printing technology, from hand composition to computer typesetting, with working letterpress machines, bookbinding and offset printing.
- Operated by
- Stadt Rendsburg
- Director
- Vanessa Jasmin Syring
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €6 |
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| Reduced | €3students, trainees, volunteer service participants, pensioners, people with a documented severe disability, recipients of social and asylum seeker benefits, holders of the Ehrenamtskarte Schleswig-Holstein |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 16 · Children and young people up to age 16, as well as pupils over 16, enter free. |
| Seniors | €3Pensioners pay the reduced rate. |
| Visitors with disabilities | €3With proof of severe disability. |
| Students & apprentices | €3Students and trainees pay the reduced rate. |
| Groups (10+ people) | €4 per personGroups of 10 or more, per person; school classes, including accompanying adults, admitted free. |
| Families | €10Parents or grandparents with their own children or grandchildren. |
One ticket covers both the Historical Museum and the Printing Museum. Guided tours for groups of 10 or more, booked by phone, cost €40 extra on top of admission.
Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible
- Elevator
- Accessible restroom
- Accessible parking
- Service dogs welcome: no information
- Tactile models & exhibits: no information
- Sign language tours: no information
- Easy-to-read materials: no information
- Audio description: no information
The Printing Museum is on the first floor and the Historical Museum on the second floor, both reachable by a wheelchair-accessible elevator. Wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first and second floors, several accessible parking spaces at the cultural center.
Kids & families
Great for kids & families
| Kids’ admission | free up to age 16 |
|---|---|
| Family ticket | €10 · Parents or grandparents with their own children or grandchildren. |
- Family tours & workshops
- Hands-on stations
- Kids’ birthday parties
Activity stations on the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, a children's station with a fishing game and stories about Käpt'n Blaubär, a rowing ergometer and sailor's knots. The project "M?halbzwölf" offers printing and craft activities for ages 8 and up on selected Sundays. Children's birthday parties for up to 10 children (2 hours from €35, plus €3 room fee and €2 materials per child); food may be brought along. Children and young people up to age 16 enter free.
Getting there & parking
By public transit
Bahnhof Rendsburg · 10-min walk
Rendsburg station (RE 7 Flensburg–Hamburg, RE 74 Kiel–Husum, RB 75 Kiel–Rendsburg), about a 10-minute walk to the museum.
By car
Parking available
Parking around Paradeplatz, on Arsenalstraße and in the cultural center's visitor car park; several accessible parking spaces at the cultural center.
- Accessible parking
By car via the A 7, A 210 or B 77 to the Rendsburg-Mitte exit, then follow the signs "Museen" and "Kulturzentrum/Paradeplatz".
Get directionsAmenities & dining
- Café
Museum café in the entrance area as a quiet zone.
Events & venue rental
The museum hasn’t published any information on this.
Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Guided tours of both museums by advance booking. School classes: age-appropriate tours, a printing workshop and a break in the museum café, also outside opening hours by arrangement; the program "Die lütte Druckerei" (the little print shop) visits schools for printing and bookbinding projects. |
