LVR Industrial Museum

The LVR Industrial Museum is located in Oberhausen, Hansastraße 18 It is a regional museum with locations in six municipalities in the Rhineland Regional Council ( LVR ). By October 2008, it was called the Rhine Industrial Museum, abbreviated RIM.

Storage of museum items

In Peter Behrens Building in Oberhausen, the former main warehouse Gutehoffnungshütte, today is the central collection depot.

History and Concept

The museum in the 1970s, was planned by the Rheinische Conservation Office and the Rhenish Museum Office. On 10 May 1984, the Regional Association of the Rhineland founded the museum. It is subtitled " Rhenish Museum of Industry and Social History ". " The building of the NRW state government, from the monuments of the participating cities and Funding at the respective sites. Was supported

The slogan of the museum reads: " Six venues, a museum ". In Grade II listed, some still fully intact factories not only the technical aspects of the working world of the industrial age are represented, but also processed societal, social and other areas of historical museum. In this respect, the concept of the museum clearly differs from other art - or open-air museums. Textile, metal, paper and electricity show as the main focus of the typical industries of the Rhine industrial landscape.

Together with the LWL Industrial Museum of Regional Association of Westphalia -Lippe (LWL ) shows the LVR Industrial Museum on the main industries and the extensive industrial history in North Rhine -Westphalia. Together, the culture industry magazine is published ( plain text Verlag, published four times a year), are presented in the places, objects and landscapes of the industrial age from the two museums and also from Germany and abroad.

Other partnerships exist with the Museu de la Ciència i de la Tecnica de Catalunya in Spain and the Écomusée Le Creusot Montceau Les Mines, France.

Locations of the museum are in regional and larger networks for industrial culture, for example in the network industry culture Bergisch country eV, integrated into the Route of Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr and the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH ).

List of locations

Bergisch Gladbach

  • Paper Museum Old Dombach

Angel churches

  • Cotton mill Ermen & Engels
  • Oelchenshammer in Bickenbach district

Euskirchen

  • Müller woolen mill
  • Museum Guest House Mottenburg

Oberhausen

  • Altenberg zinc factory
  • " Museum platform " ( disused platform at track 4/5 of the Oberhausen main station )
  • " Museum Eisenheim " in the oldest working class neighborhood Eisenheim the Ruhr area in OB- Osterfeld
  • " St. Antony Ironworks "
  • LVR Industriearchäologischer Park
  • Collections in the Peter Behrens Building ( Central Museum Central Museum and Depot )

Ratingen

  • Textile Mill Cromford

Solingen

  • Gesenkschmiede Hendrichs
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