September 27 -  November 22, 2015

The Kunstmuseum Bochum at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen

Since the first museums opened their doors a good 200 years ago, collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and communicating works of art and cultural artefacts have been among their essential tasks: Museums inform and educate, offer experiences and promote openness, tolerance and social dialogue. They are an expression of living civic democracy, educate for aesthetic maturity and allow the emancipatory power of art and culture to be experienced. Museums are public institutions and accessible to everyone - even if they are finding it increasingly difficult to fulfil their cultural mission in the face of the growing economisation of art and cult

In 1950, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen was founded in a former high-rise bunker on the edge of the city centre; ten years later, the Kunstmuseum Bochum was founded in an upper-class villa in the city park as a municipal art gallery for art after 1945. From the very beginning, both museums have not separated between exhibition and collection objects, but have exhibited in order to be able to collect so that what has been collected can be exhibited in turn. In the midst of the dense museum landscape of the Ruhr region, both collections have an unmistakable profile and yet communicate with each other in an extremely fruitful way. The invitation to the Bochum museum to exhibit in Recklinghausen takes up an idea of the RuhrKunstMuseen to see the collections of the 20 regional art museums between Duisburg and Hamm as a meaningfully complementary unit, as one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art of all, which proves its strength precisely in its joint appearance.

 

 

 

Opening Hours
Tickets
* Pupils, Apprentices, Students, Groups from 10 persons, Owners of the Recklinghausen Pass i.e. any other equivalent identification card from other municipalites, Owners of the Ehrenamtskarte NRW or the Jubiläums-Ehrenamtskarte NRW
The Kunsthalle is barrier-free accesible.
Guided Tours
The public guided tours are free of charge, only the entrance fee needs to be paid.

Per group (20 persons max.) a booked guided tour is 55,- Euro. Registration via tel. (02361) 50 19 35.
Address
Approach
The Kunsthalle is located across the central station, close to the bus station and is accessible via all public transportations. An underground park station is located underneath the bus station.