LVR-Industriemuseum, Museum Eisenheim
How to find us:
- Street
- Berliner Str. 10a
- Zip, City
- 46117 Oberhausen
- Country
- Germany
- Phone
- 02234 9921555
- Web
- https://industriemuseum.lvr.de/de/die_museen/st__antony/museum_eisenheim/museum_eisenheim.html
Description
Museum Eisenheim, a branch of the LVR-Industriemuseum Oberhausen, is housed in the historic workers' settlement of Eisenheim, one of the oldest of its kind in the Ruhrgebiet. Its urban-planning origins shape the place and the museum's thematic focus.
At the end of the 1960s/early 1970s the settlement faced demolition; a local citizens' initiative opposed this and secured its protection as a listed monument. Out of civic engagement, a local history museum was established in one of the three former washhouses, where residents collected furniture, everyday objects and photographs.
In 1989 the Landschaftsverband Rheinland took over the social history museum and integrated it into the LVR-Industriemuseum Oberhausen. In 1996 the permanent exhibition „Eisenheim. Gründung, und Ausbau, Niedergang und Neubeginn der ältesten Arbeitersiedlung im Ruhrgebiet“ was opened; it documents the development of the settlement. Since 1999 the presentation has been supplemented by a museum apartment in a workers' house, in which numerous photographs and documents complete the depiction of domestic and everyday life.