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.
Over het museum
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).
Hoogtepunten
- 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
Vaste collectie
- 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.
- Opgericht
- 1912
- Beheerder
- Stadt Menden (Sauerland)
Toegangsprijzen & kortingen
De toegang is gratis.
| Groepen | –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.
Toegankelijkheid
- Rolstoeltoegankelijk: niet aanwezig
- Lift: geen informatie
- Aangepast toilet: geen informatie
- Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats: geen informatie
- Hulphonden welkom
- Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
- Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
- Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
- Audiodescriptie: geen informatie
Not accessible due to the historic building fabric. Assistance dogs are welcome.
Kinderen & gezin
Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen
- Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
The museum mouse "Melchior Stöbernas" accompanies children through the collection with question sheets.
Bereikbaarheid & parkeren
Met het openbaar vervoer
Nordwall · 3 min. lopen
Several bus lines to "Nordwall" (approx. 3-minute walk) or "Bahnhof Menden" (approx. 6-minute walk).
Met de auto
Gratis parkeren · 7 min. lopen naar de ingang
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 & horeca
Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd – vraag het rechtstreeks na bij het museum.
Evenementen & zaalverhuur
Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd – vraag het rechtstreeks na bij het museum.
Je bezoek plannen
| Rondleidingen | ja · duur ca. 60 min. |
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| Aanbod voor scholen | ja |
| Goed om te weten | 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. |
