Ruhr Metropolis: The new Ruhr area

 

During your trip to the Ruhr metropolis, you may choose from 3.500 industrial monuments, 200 museums, 120 theatres 100 cultural centres, 100 concert halls and 2 famous musical theatres – an exciting composition of culture and entertainment! 

 

Highlights in the Ruhr Metropolis

 

The LehmbruckMuseum in the 60s. Credit: Bernd Kirtz

'100 years of Lehmbruck's Kneeling Woman – Paris 1911'

Grace kneels in Duisburg, forged in 1911 in a Parisian studio. For its creator Wilhelm Lehmbruck, the Kneeling Woman becomes a completely personal mark of creation. Affecting the art of the modern era like an impulse, with its graceful yet peculiar pose and a gesture that until that time was unique the piece has exercised an immense influence on sculpture and painting in the past hundred years. MORE

Following the closure of Bochumer Verein, the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum in 2003 became the symbol of the transformation of industrial space into cultural venues, with its conversion to a first-echelon festival complex and the "arts workshop" of the RuhrTriennale festival. The process was rounded off by the equipping of the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum with ultra-modern stage and sound technology, to meet the high standards expected of this famous festival. Jahrhunderthalle

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