Stadtmuseum Nordhorn

Over het museum

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.

Hoogtepunten

• 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

Vaste collectie

• 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.

Opgericht

1994

Beheerder

Grafschafter Museumsverein e. V.

Directie

Nadine Ihle

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

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.

Toegankelijkheid

• Rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift
• Aangepast toilet
• 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

NINO-Hochbau: accessible entrance and elevator, accessible exhibition, accessible restroom, seating. The Povelturm has an elevator but is not fully accessible.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
• Doe- en voelstations
• Kinderfeestjes

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.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

By car: access to NINO-Allee is from the Frensdorfer Ring at the "Trinkgut" beverage store.

Service & horeca

• Café
• Museumwinkel

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.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd – vraag het rechtstreeks na bij het museum.

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