The 10 Best Children's Museums in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

A "workshop for the world" - that was the city of Solingen with its cutlery production at the end of the 19th century. Even today, in the Hendrichs drop forge of the LVR Industrial Museum in Solingen, you can experience how the red-hot slit pieces are forged into scissor blanks under a loud roar, how it bangs and hisses. You will learn exciting facts about the history of the famous Solingen cutlery industry.

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Das Sauerland-Museum ist ein architektonisch spannendes Gebäude-Ensemble mit attraktiven Ausstellungen. Es vereint einen modernen und historischen Stil. Im Landsberger Hof zeigt das Sauerland-Museum die Geschichte des ehemaligen Herzogtums Westfalen von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Unser Audioguide führt Sie auf Wunsch in den Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch und Niederländisch durch die Ausstellung. Auch barrierefreie Führungen für Blinde und Sehgeschädigte, in deutscher Gebärdensprache und in leichter Sprache sind möglich. Der Neubau, den man über eine Verbindungsbrücke erreicht, widmet sich attraktiven Sonderausstellungen.

Situated directly on the river Anger and embedded in an old English landscape park is one of the oldest preserved industrial plants in Germany: the Cromford cotton spinning mill in Ratingen. Founded in 1783/84 by the Wuppertal businessman and entrepreneur Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, it is today considered the first fully mechanical cotton spinning mill on the European continent. The early industrial plant from the late 18th century has been almost completely preserved: the five-story "Hohe Fabrik" and the late baroque Cromford Manor - today both buildings of the LVR Industrial Museum, the "Alte Fabrik", the simple workers' apartments, the office and the wheelhouse, which once housed the water wheel.

Half-timbered houses in a green valley landscape, streams and a rattling mill wheel - this is how the former paper mill Alte Dombach welcomes visitors. Today, the LVR Industrial Museum in Bergisch Gladbach can be found at this location with its charming atmosphere. Its exhibition is dedicated to the material paper - a product that has become an indispensable part of our everyday life.

The Altenberg zinc factory is expected to be closed until 2023 due to reconstruction measures. A new permanent exhibition is planned. It will relate more strongly to the zinc factory than before. The life and work of the people in the region will take center stage. The curators want to pursue the question of how industry and its development has influenced the people. Current changes and the question of the future of work will also be examined. As the site of the LVR Industrial Museum, the Rheinisches Landesmuseum fur Industrie- und Sozialgeschichte, these areas will naturally continue to be the focus of attention.