Tourist attractions Essen

This museum of international renown brings together Germany and French works, paintings, sculptures, engravings and photographs from the 19 and 20C. Among others one can admire here the realists of the 19 th century (Courbet, Feuerbach). A very comp..

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 museum, one of Europe's modern sculpture centres, contains over 700 works of art from the 20C. Among the many artists represented are Beuys, Arp, Barlach, Calder, Giacometti, Dali, Kollwitz, Tinguely and Magritte. In another section you can see w..

In addition to its geological and archaeological collections, the Ruhr Museum is devoted to the social history of industrialisation. Authentic items and documentation teach visitors about the situation of the working families and the lifestyle of t..

This house, which is located in an attractive park, and which was designed by Krupp, dates from the Bismarckian epoch (1872). It contains dwelling and reception rooms where three generations of the Krupp family lived until 1945. In addition to the fu..

The Railway Museum is situated in an old station with a repair shop. The original 1914 installations (engine house, turntable, crane...) have largely survived intact. Over a 100 machines running on rails retrace the evolution of the German railways..

The present-day exhibition hall was once Europe's largest blast-furnace gasometer, 117.5m high and 68m in diameter. The 592 steps of the exterior stair lead to a panoramic platform. Inside, a panoramic elevator takes visitors to the 106m level. At th..

The Altenberg zinc works closed its doors in 1981, after 130 years of operation. The Museum of Heavy Industry, now housed in the former rolling mill, is devoted not only to the history of technological progress since the mid-19C, but also shows the d..

This 40ha film and amusement park has 27 attractions, including the « Bermuda triangle » with its rapids and raging waterfalls, the « Batman adventure » in the breathtaking flight simulator, a show performed by stuntmen, and a tour of the studio wit..

This museum is housed in Ruhrort's former swimming pool, built for the townspeople around the turn of the century to improve hygiene conditions in the neighbourhood. The museum traces the history of navigation from the simple dug-out canoe to modern-..

The west chancel with three sections, inspired by that of Aix-la-Chapelle, is the oldest part of this cathedral (10C). The church, which is built over an Ottonian crypt, is a Gothic hall, and dates from the 13C. Don't miss the Golden Virgin , a ma..

The constructivist work of Bottrop painter Josef Albers gave rise to the name of this museum.«Homage to the Square» is how the former Bauhaus lecturer named his study of the effects of and on colour. Visit the adjoining sculpture park containing wo..

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.