Experience the Münsterland live at great concerts, atmospheric festivals, musicals, exhibitions and readings. In the open air, colourful traditional markets, town festivals, knights' games and the wonderful Christmas markets attract visitors.
The Münsterland calendar of events is full to bursting all year round. Be there when castles are transformed into shining lights, green spaces into concert halls, meadows into marketplaces and shopping streets into dining rooms. Choose your favourite event for today, next weekend or to coincide with your holiday in Münsterland.
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Please note: Due to the Corona pandemic, events may be cancelled or postponed at short notice. Please contact the organiser directly.
Discover how birds learnt to fly and how whales and lizards learnt to swim. Find out how dinosaurs communicated with each other and how they were able to grow into such giants. Find out why our gardens and streets are still teeming with dinosaurs today.
On over 850 square metres, the permanent exhibition answers exciting questions about the life and evolution of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Immerse yourself in a world full of strange yet familiar colours, sounds and life forms. See how palaeontologists in Westphalia continue to find rare fossils and what is possible today to breathe new life into fossilised bones. In addition to a large number of skeletons, models, specimens and real fossils, interactive media, animations and films provide an exciting change of pace.
Take advantage of the many opportunities to join in with the interactive activities and gain your own experiences. Be prepared for surprises!
Ehrenamtskarte NRW: reduzierter Eintritt auf Anfrage.
LWL-MuseumsCard-Inhaber:innen, Mitglieder:innen vom DMB und ICOM haben freien Eintritt.
Did water buffalo and sabre-toothed cats really once live in Westphalia? The LWL Museum of Natural History of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) is now bringing these animals back to life.
In the 320 square metre exhibition, visitors to the museum can experience visitors experience the coming and going of animals and plants on a journey through time with over 900 exhibits. The exhibition includes original artefacts from Ice Age bone finds of vanished and impressive animal species.
Ehrenamtskarte NRW: reduzierter Eintritt auf Anfrage.
LWL-MuseumsCard-Inhaber:innen, Mitglieder:innen vom DMB und ICOM haben freien Eintritt.
Coming and Going - Westphalian Biodiversity in Transition is a state exhibition at the LWL Museum of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on animals and plants from Westphalia that have become extinct and some of which have been reintroduced. The new permanent exhibition has numerous originals and shows the changes in nature. In addition, current research results in Westphalia are shown.
Under the title "SEARCHING PERFECT SHAPES", the two artists Beate Gärtner and Michelle Adolfs invite you to a special exhibition from 2.45 p.m. that opens up new aesthetic spaces by means of virtual reality and augmented reality. Throughout the Klosterpark, 3D sculptures can be experienced digitally, entering into a new relationship with architectural features and the natural space. Using a smartphone or tablet, the artworks can be brought onto the screen, superimposed on the live camera image. The result is a game with visual axes and concrete forms that open up an expanded world in motion. The artists sound out digital in-between worlds and show a creative rethinking of sculpture - weightless and interactive.
The project "MyVR_Planet.DA" - part of this year's KunstKommunikation project scholarship - finds its first work conclusion here. The basic principle is a reduction with an abstract language of forms; they are small interventions in our field of vision - everyone controls their own experience. The artists have worked with the works in the tradition of Heinrich Neuy's Bauhaus. In autumn, another exhibition will follow at the Heinrich Neuy Bauhaus Museum in Borghorst, where the digital objects can be experienced haptically with the help of 3D printing.
Since 2018, the Draiflessen Collection has owned the "Stichting Ariadne's Naaikussen". This collection of almost 2,000 historical needlework and sewing utensils, a collection of textile samples and a specialist library was assembled over several decades by Clementine Kuttschrütter, née Brenninkmeijer. The treasures date predominantly from the 18th and 19th centuries and are artistically crafted from precious materials. In addition to items still in use today such as needles, scissors, thimbles or elaborate sewing boxes, they also include such items as yarn balls, sewing clamps or shuttles for frivolity work, whose practical significance and aesthetics we can experience anew.
The first presentation of "Ariadne's Naaikussen" in the rooms of the Draiflessen Collection introduces highlights and marks the start of the scholarly treatment of this outstanding collection. It is also a tribute to the passionate collector, who would have turned 90 this year.
Jeden ersten Donnerstag im Monat 11−21 Uhr
Geöffnet: 26.12.2023
(2. Weihnachtstag), 01.04.2024 (Ostermontag)
Geschlossen: 24. und 25.12.2023 (Heiligabend und 1. Weihnachtstag),
31.12.2023 (Silvester), 01.01.2024 (Neujahr), 29.03.2024 (Karfreitag), 31.03.2024
(Ostersonntag)
Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.
The advent of printmaking in the 15th century revolutionised the dissemination of images. Whereas earlier, for example, altarpieces and paintings were only accessible to a select audience, the new media of woodcut and copperplate engraving suddenly made it possible to produce images relatively quickly, cheaply and in large editions.
The exhibition shows how printmaking, with its special narrative form, helped to make images and the stories they contained accessible to a wider public. At the same time, the motifs and depictions were increasingly devoted to profane themes, although the artists and art of the time were still strongly influenced by religion. What purpose did these secular images serve, what zeitgeist did they reflect and how did the artists manage to convey not only an image but also a message to the contemporary viewer on just a few square centimetres of paper? However, while the viewers of the time understood all the hints in the pictorial language very well, this knowing seeing is often lacking today.
STORYTELLING therefore invites visitors to (re)discover the answers to these questions.
Jeden ersten Donnerstag im Monat 11−21 Uhr
Geöffnet: 26.12.2023
(2. Weihnachtstag), 01.04.2024 (Ostermontag)
Geschlossen: 24. und 25.12.2023 (Heiligabend und 1. Weihnachtstag),
31.12.2023 (Silvester), 01.01.2024 (Neujahr), 29.03.2024 (Karfreitag), 31.03.2024
(Ostersonntag)
Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.
The nude is a timeless art motif that fascinates, outrages, excites and inspires through its diversity and possibilities of representation. In the exhibition, ways of interpreting the nude and its art-historical development from the 19th to the 21st century are illuminated. Themes such as the male gaze on the female body and the question of gender and identity are addressed. The works from Tate London are presented in groups, ranging from historical depictions of the nude to politically charged and fragile representations. They are complemented by works by artists such as Edvard Munch and August Macke from the Münster collection.
Am 2. Freitag im Monat hat das Museum von 10 Uhr - 24 Uhr geöffnet (bei freiem Eintritt ab 18 Uhr).
Am zweiten Freitag im Monat von 18 Uhr bis 24 Uhr ist der Eintritt frei.
In the 19th century, names such as Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace and Alexander von Humboldt characterise the world of natural sciences. At the same time, volunteer researchers from Münster set out to explore the region's nature and secure objects and research findings - the foundation stones of today's natural science collections for Westphalia-Lippe with a total of over 2.3 million collection objects. The special exhibition "Vom Fach" provides an exciting insight into the museum's collections with around 3,300 exhibits on 400 square metres.
Zusätzlich ist die Ausstellung am 01.04.2024 und 20.05.2024 geöffnet.
Ehrenamtskarte NRW: reduzierter Eintritt auf Anfrage.
LWL-MuseumsCard-Inhaber:innen, Mitglieder:innen vom DMB und ICOM haben freien Eintritt.
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