Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr

In the location's words:

ONE HOUSE - THREE COLLECTIONS

The Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr offers visitors three floors with a total of 1,200 m² of exhibition space with different temperaments. In changing exhibitions, the museum presents artists and themes from the collection, from the city and region, as well as classical modernism and contemporary art.

Here you will find numerous insights into the renovation work on the Alte Post building.

Together with expressionist paintings from the municipal collection, the collection of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Karl Ziegler and his wife Maria in particular creates a cheerful riot of color. Franz Marc's abstract animal portraits, Emil Nolde's vibrant floral motifs and August Macke's landscape watercolors are particularly pleasing to the eye. An open-hearted portrait of a baby by Otto Dix and a simple composition with sailing boats by Lyonel Feininger are an expression of an undisguised joy in beauty, which formed the Ziegler couple's intuitive motive for collecting rather than art-historical considerations. Thanks to the commitment of the Mülheim collector Dr. Karl G. Themel, the museum houses one of the most extensive collections of the socially critical Berlin artist Heinrich Zille.

Guided tours, workshops, school cooperations - education and communication for a wide range of target groups are important tasks of the art museum. In addition to regular public tours , differentiated educational formats such as dialogical tours, workshops or playful, holistic concepts offer insights into the collection areas and temporary exhibitions. Children and young people in particular can learn artistic and creative techniques in regular courses at the painting school .
Over two hundred sculptures, reliefs and wall designs extend the art collection into the urban, public space. These works can also be explored on routes on various themes, the StadtKunstTouren.