The LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen is a member of the RuhrArtMuseumsThe 21 art museums in the Ruhr region have joined together to form the RuhrKunstMuseen network. The majority of the museums focus on 20th century and contemporary art, but 19th century art and old and non-European art are also represented in individual museums with significant holdings.
From Duisburg to Hamm, from Hagen to Marl, a connected network of high-caliber collections stretches across 15 cities, housed in industrial heritage buildings, castles, outstanding architecture from the post-war decades and spectacular new buildings. A visit to the museums is also a representative foray into the architectural culture of the Ruhr region.
The cooperation between the RuhrKunstMuseen impressively illustrates the multifaceted collections of modern and contemporary art that the Ruhr museum landscape has to offer. Through joint communication, exhibition activities and educational work, visitors and residents have been able to experience and discover the diversity of the museum offerings of the Ruhr cultural metropolis since the beginning of 2010.
To kick off their cooperation, the networking of the different institutions was successfully demonstrated in the year of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 with the joint art education program "Collection Tours"; at the same time, the museums presented the exhibition series "Mapping the Region".
With the merger of large and small institutions with national and international appeal, the RuhrKunstMuseen will, after their successful launch, not only sustainably strengthen cultural education and communication and develop exhibitions that use art to reflect the future of Europe's third-largest metropolitan area, the Ruhr region, but above all also raise awareness of their collections in the long term.
The first joint catalogue was published in 2010 under the title "RuhrKunstMuseen. Die Sammlung". It reflects the overall idea of the network to make the diverse art landscape with its unique collection of modern art visible. An introductory essay by Georg Imdahl on the "Images of the Ruhr Area" is followed by a 150-page colour illustration section with the museums' masterpieces. This foray through art history up to the present is followed by self-portrayals of the individual museums with photographs of the exhibition rooms and architecture. The highlights of the collection include works by Liebermann, Renoir, Matisse, Lehmbruck, Marc, Macke, Kirchner as well as Albers, Richter, Stella, Schumacher, Höfer and Turrell. The publication, which is available in the 20 museums and in bookstores, is in German with an English summary.
A free information brochure available in all RuhrKunstMuseen provides a compact overview of the Ruhr museum landscape, suggestions for museum tours and practical information for visiting the museum.
The following museums are involved:
Kunstmuseum Bochum Situation Kunst, Bochum Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop Museum Ostwall, Dortmund MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg Museum DKM | DKM Foundation, Duisburg Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation, Duisburg Museum Folkwang, Essen Art Museum Gelsenkirchen Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen Osthaus Museum Hagen Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm Emschertal Museum, Herne Flottmann Hallen, Herne SGlaskasten sculpture museum, Marl Art Museum in the Alte Post, Mülheim LUDWIGGALERIE Oberhausen Castle Recklinghausen Art Gallery Center for International Light Art, Unna Märkisches Museum, Witten, Museum Haus Opherdicke, Unna
Further information can be found at:
RuhrKunstus – An educational project of the RuhrKunstMuseen
Supported by the RWE Foundation
term 2024 – 2026
RuhrKunstbewegt is an educational project of the 21 RuhrkunstMuseen, supported by the RWE Foundation.
The network of RuhrKunstMuseen develops with RuhrKunstus once again an educational offer for children and young people who grow up in financial poverty and whose social participation is impaired by disadvantageous living conditions. The participants get to know the museum as a new place of experience and expand their skills through creative forms of expression. Approaches and formats of museum education and communication are expanded in an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral manner: approaches from theater, dance and music complement museum offers in order to offer children and young people a variety of activating approaches to art and culture as well as self-efficacy and independent acquisition of learning content and working methods.
Over three school semesters, children and young people of different age groups and school types can take part in several consecutive workshops in order to find their own approach to art.
