Tourist attractions Dortmund

Opened in 1930, the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum gives an overview of mining from Antiquity to the present day using graphics, animated scale models, and reconstructions of original machines. Below the museum, a mine museum ( Schaubergwerk ) has been cre..

The churches stand opposite each other. The triple-aisle Gothic church contains some remarkable treasures, which include wooden statues and a sculpted reredos (1350). In the Romanesque church are two particularly fine altarpieces and a wooden Romanes..

The main centres of attraction in this park are the Rose Garden with over 3 000 varieties and the 220m-high television tower, which has become the symbol of the town. The panorama from the top of the tower is breathtaking.

The collections are displayed chronologically and cover a diversity of subjects, including the history of the town, religious art in the Late Middle Ages, dwellings and household furniture through the ages and19C painting. The Dortmund Treasure is ..

The ship lift at Henrichenburg, the only one of its kind in its time, was inaugurated in 1899 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. It carried ships up and down a distance of 14m on the Dortmund-to-Ems canal (1892-1899), which links the Ruhr with the North Sea. The ..

The Art Museum in Bochum, a spacious modern airy building, contains in particular a large collection of contemporary East European art, but artists from the ex-Federal Republic are also represented.

In 1902, Karl Ernst Osthaus, a manufacturer and patron, founded the Folkwand Museum on this site. Housed in an Art Nouveau style building designed by Henry Van der Velde, the museum exhibits classical and contemporary art. In the adjoining Hagen Muse..