Curioseum

Over het museum

The Curioseum goes back to Willingen innkeeper Hans Schlömer, who spent a lifetime collecting vehicles, machines, models and all kinds of curiosities. When the many rented garages and barns were no longer enough for the collection, he had a former farmstead in the village of Usseln converted into an exhibition hall. In 2008 the Oldtimer-Curioseum with Panoptikum opened there, describing itself as "Kitsch, Kunst und Krempel" (kitsch, art and junk).

The exhibition deliberately avoids a conventional museum concept. On two floors connected without steps stand dozens of classic cars and microcars – including Goggomobils, Heinkel bubble cars, an Austin-Healey Sprite, a Jaguar E-Type and vehicles for disabled drivers – along with motorcycles and mopeds of various makes and old tractors. There is also a maritime section with large model ships, dugout canoes and a midget submarine, aircraft and relics of local aviation, as well as workshops and desks from times gone by.

In the Panoptikum, numerous display cases and scenes present the creepy and the absurd, from skeletons to a moon car to movie characters. Many pieces come with tongue-in-cheek stories told during guided tours. The museum is run by the Schlömer-Mütze family, who also operate the Berggasthof Zum Wilddieb inn in Willingen.

Hoogtepunten

• Original midget submarine from World War II
• Classic cars and quirky microcars, including an Austin-Healey Sprite "Frosch" ("Frogeye") and a Jaguar E-Type
• Mobile guillotine mounted on a Ford Model T
• Maritime mini-world with large model ships, such as the Bismarck in several scales
• Panoptikum with curiosities in numerous display cases
• Historic tractors and relics of Willingen's aviation history

Vaste collectie

• Oldtimer & Microcars – Dozens of cars, microcars, vehicles for disabled drivers, motorcycles, mopeds and tractors, many of them roadworthy and accompanied by anecdotes from the collector's life.
• Panoptikum – Cabinet of curiosities with skeletons, a moon car, movie characters, a cobbler's workshop and countless finds in display cases.
• Maritime Mini-Welt – Model ships from a few centimeters to four meters long, dugout canoes and a real midget submarine.

Opgericht

2008

Beheerder

Familie Schlömer-Mütze

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Dogs must stay outside.

Toegankelijkheid

• Rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift: geen informatie
• Aangepast toilet: geen informatie
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats: geen informatie
• Hulphonden welkom: geen informatie
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
• Audiodescriptie: geen informatie

The exhibition extends over two floors without stairs; according to the tourist information office, the roughly 650 m tour route is accessible.

Kinderen & gezin

The Willingen tourist information office recommends the Curioseum as an outing for the whole family; some scenes in the Panoptikum are deliberately designed to be creepy.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

By car via the B251; the museum is in Usseln on the road to Düdinghausen.

Service & horeca

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Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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