ruhr museum essen

Everything about my visit to Ruhr Museum was fantastic. I loved the history, the surreal setting, the pieces on display, the lighting and the beautifully preserved grounds. This museum in an old munitions factory shows you a long and varied history of the local area and Germany. A friend took me here and I was pleasantly surprised as we spent over 6 hours here without realising! Definitely recommend the museum and the area in general, just beautiful.

The Ruhr Museum is a great place to have a rich historical experience. It is not a boring place that only people interested in history would enjoy. It includes a large variety of exhibits and explains how the Ruhr mining area affected the development of the surrounding areas. It has all of the old mining machinery intermixed with modern lighting and presentation as well as many items on display from minerals of the area that are in current drinking water to plant samples of the area. One of the best parts of my visit was a trip to the roof where you are over 40 meters above ground level and can take in views of everything around for many kilometers. My visit was brief, only a couple of hours due to time constraint, but I wish I would have had at least 3-4 hours up to a whole day.

The entrance fee is 8 euros for adultes and 5 euro for students. If you are interested in the industrial development of this area you should definitely go and spend a nice afternoon. You will need around 4 hours to have a whole tour and it is really interactive and fun there. Enjoy it

The Ruhrmuseum is a place that can keep busy a whole family, including young children, half a day at least. It is interesting from its content especially for the foreign tourist because it offers explenataions in English aside to German. Children get at the entrance a research kit with tasks , that actively involves them and intensify their experience.After 3 hours we had to leave, without seeing everything. Hope to visit again soon and bridge the remaining gaps.

Yes, it had some pretty lights running throughout. But ultimately, was this a very interesting museum? The answer to that would be a no. One of the items on exhibition was a bowl of soup. That sums it all up to me - it's so dull, they have to resort to everyday meals to fill gaps. Before we even entered the building, we willed our guides not to give us a ticket, so we could just go sit in the café instead. If you are ever in Essen and are that bored and plan to go here, I would advise you to do more interesting things, this is not how you should be wasting your time.

As I see it, the site itself is an attraction. Walking around the huge buildings - the coal yard facilities and the power plant makes you understand the transaction the energy industry has witnessed.The scale is impressive, an ideal place to shoot the next 007 movie….I'm not fan of museums, but this place is an exceptional one.

The Ruhr Museum is huge and covers so many matters that a quick visit will easily take four hours. The building is wonderful to walk around and although it's a long way up, the view from the roof - at 45m high - is worth the climb.There is a reasonable amount of information in English for those that don't speak German.The snackbar in the museum is simple but charming.

The museum focuses not only on the mining industry, but also on the area's place in history. There's a bit of a mixture and I think most people would find something interesting here. It's over 3 main floors and about 50% of the info given is also translated into English. I paid €8 for a basic entry, which didn't include all of the exhibitions, but I found there was enough for me to see and it took me about an hour to look round. However, if you wanted to look at everything in more detail and see all of the exhibitions, you could easily spend a good few hours here. I think the price to see everything was around €14. The décor of the museum was interesting; lots of modern, bright orange lighting against the original stone background. There is a nice café selling hot & cold drinks as well as snacks such as savoury croissants and typical German sausages, as well as cakes. I'm not a huge fan of museums generally, but if you have some spare time I would recommend you give this place a quick visit!

are the dominant colours of the Ruhr Museum. Orange is the colour of hot steel, black the colour of coal. Rem Kohlhaas has chosen these colours in the redesign of old coal plant of the Zeche Zollverein into a museum. The exhibition areas are thus located in the machine rooms of the old coal plant. The scenography was well integrated into the unusual setting by exhibition builder H.G. Merz who also did the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart. As regards the contents, it is about the area of the Ruhr with cross-cutting themes from natural science, history to art and ethnology. Well worthwhile a visit alone for the atmosphere.

My Dad was a coal miner so this was a must on our tour of the Ruhr Valley. For 14 euro you get a ticket that covers most of the site which is enormous. So much machinery and history has been preserved. The coking plant is a owner in itself and we spent ages wandering around it then going into a Emerson art "pantomime" in one of the bunkers. Has to be see intense and moving. The rest of the museum gives you a great history of coal, electricity, industry and the area. Well worth a whole day. Good Brotwurst at cafe.

HUGE museum, really smartly designed....nice tying together of the history, science, and culture of the region in such a visually and sensorial amazing way. Plan to spend a whole day easily. Difficult to find, and signage could be much better, and snack stand staff could be nicer. Great view from roof, great shop, really one of my favorite things this trip.

Unless you are totally interested in mining and such, this may not be for you. The environment (and the admission area) is as cold as the mine area. To go in the museum you have first to go up the elevator (something like 5 stories high or whatever) - and on the day I visited it was out of action, so one would have to walk all the way up, and I was in no mood for that. For some reason I expected more from the Krupp time (artifacts or whatever), but not much to see, unfortunately.

The whole museum looks cool in every way. Cool design with heavy industrial style. All the exhibitions display in a nice way. Yet, most of the sub-titles or contents are in German only. Quite inconvenient to those who don't know German.Last but the least, must-go: Panorama at 45m Level! Gorgeous!!

We went with a party of friends to visit the Ruhr museum. It's housed in a former colliery and the building is enormous! It was great to go inside and get a feel of the scale of things and imagine the incredible noise the machinery must have made. We got the audio guide in English which was very informative and interesting, though I found it difficult to navigate around each numbered item. It may have been that I wasn't paying enough attention - did the numbers have arrows to direct you to the next? One drawback from going with a party, it is distracting as well as fun!Good exhibits, though it started it interactive, that soon tailed off. You could spend hours and hours in there if you listened to every commentary on each exhibit, I chose to pick and choose. There are plenty of English descriptions on the exhibits as well as German, but I think the audio guide made it a better experience.

While in Essen, we visited this museum and although it had very interesting exhibits and insight regarding the Krupp family, many artifact explanations were not in English. There were several staff members standing around talking to one another but not one person offered to help us or give us additional information in English. I know they spoke English because when it was time to close, they all let us know in English that we needed to leave. We were there at least 3 hours and didn't see it all. I would have enjoyed it so much more if we had gotten the audio guide. Hindsight is 20/20!