Three boys on wheels against an industrial backdropChildren's lives on the Ruhr and Emscher 1900 - 1960Whether carefree at a children's party, disciplined at school, adventurous on a bicycle or in the first year of an apprenticeship building grenades for the war - the lives of children in the Ruhr and Emscher in the first half of the last century were characterized by great contrasts. The childish idyll did not always conceal an ideal world, as the images from the historical photo collections of the LVR Industrial Museum and the Ruhr Museum show.
22.06.2023 - 16.06.2024
St. Antony-Hütte, Oberhausen
For the first time, works by the photographer Anne Winterer (1894 - 1938), whose estate has been in the museum's collection for several years, are being shown. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, she ran the "Hehmke-Winterer Photographic Workshop" in Düsseldorf together with Erna Hehmke. During this time, she produced various photo series with a wide range of motifs. They show people and industry in the Ruhr region, landscapes on the Lower Rhine and in the Eifel, but also everyday life and leisure in the early 20th century. The exhibition makes it possible to rediscover the photographer, who died young, with her special view of places and people and provides insights into past living environments on the Rhine and Ruhr.
From 28 June 2024
St. Antony Hütte, Oberhausen
The crime thriller surrounding the setting up and operation of the first ironworks in the Ruhr region is related together with the company history and subsequent use of the premises. Next door you can discover the unique relics from the early period of the ironworks in the LVR Industrial Archaeological Park.
St. Antony-Hütte, Antoniestraße 32-34, 46119 Oberhausen
The Eisenheim Museum in the oldest workers’ housing estate on the Ruhr tells the story of the housing and of the daily grind and life in the “settlement”.
Museum Eisenheim, Berliner Straße 10a, 46117 Oberhausen
