Essen (dpa) - Der Wäschelöffel von Erna Stottrop hat im neuen Essener Ruhr Museum seinen großen Auftritt, eigentlicher Star ist jedoch das Museumsgebäude selbst. Die ehemalige Kohlenwäsche des Essener ...

Of all the buildings that architectural preservationists try to save, industrial buildings are the hardest sell. They are big, expensive to preserve, heat and maintain, and they are not cute. It's ...

After four years of planning, HG Merz designed the new museum as a separate entity within the original building. All of the existing infrastructure, including beams and plumbing works, as well as the ...

Essen. Eine Kohlenwäsche ist kein Gebäude, sondern eine gigantische Maschine, in der die Kohle vom "tauben Gestein" getrennt wird. Oben wird das Fördergut eingefüllt und fällt dann unter Zusatz von ...

Essen – Teils Natur-Idyll, teils Montan-Moloch: So einzigartig war die Landschaft im Revier des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Das zeigen 300 Schwarz-Weiß-Bilder des berühmten Fotografen Albert ...

Zollverein, once a major mining and coking plant, is now a sprawling and surreal museum that explores Germany's industrial history. The Ruhr Museum, depicting the region’s history from prehistoric ...

The architects’ manifold design, which changes in character from one area to the next, is for the most part restrained, yet without forgoing the requisite mise en scène; for example, some of the finer ...

The Ruhr region is called the Ruhrpott in Germany, an affectionate and deprecating term that translates as something like “Ruhr Rust Bucket.” It’s known for mines and factories, slag heaps, huge ...

The main exhibition in Berlin, called “Unfinished Metropolis - 100 Years of Urban Development for (Greater) Berlin”, can be found in the Kronprinzenpalais on Unter den Linden, near Museum Island. The ...

The advanced industrial society is a pioneer of industrial and mining museums. These museums aware us of our socio-emotional dislocation, which the people in the old industrial town experienced in the ...

Blue skies and grazing sheep? It's not Germany's rural countryside, but its most densely populated, former industrial powerhouse. Once known only for coal mines, the Ruhr Valley digs deep to fight ...