Beckum Cement Museum

The Cement Museum in Beckum provides insights into limestone layers - some of which are around 300 million years old! - and the famous history of the so-called cement district. Visitors learn how the building material was produced and what economic and industrial success it brought to the town. Documents, pictures and films provide extensive information - from (former) production to worldwide delivery. Thanks to many models and manufactured products, the feeling of cold, hard cement and brittle sand-lime brick can be "touched" here. For more than ten years, eight volunteers and former cement workers have put a lot of passion into preserving the city's impressive cement history and invite visitors to discover it.

Let yourself be inspired

The museum initiators are particularly proud of a model of a complex cement works.
© Münsterland e.V./Maximilian Lehrke
In the Cement Museum you can find out everything you need to know about cement.
© Münsterland e.V./Maximilian Lehrke
Cement plays a major role in Beckum.
© Münsterland e.V./Maximilian Lehrke
Beckum - a town characterised by the cement industry.
© Münsterland e.V./Maximilian Lehrke

The development of the Beckum cement district

In no other part of Germany was the cement industry concentrated in such a small area as in the former district of Beckum, today the southern part of the district of Warendorf. Today, large quarries, former extraction sites and extensive factories still characterise the landscape around Beckum and Ennigerloh. There is evidence that the lime and marl deposits in Beckum were already being exploited in the Middle Ages. Until the late 19th century, the material was extracted by hand using hoes, crowbars and shovels and transported to the factory by horse and cart - which meant heavy physical strain for the quarry workers (stone coolers)! It was only later that more powerful mechanical quarrying methods, such as excavators, the use of explosives and quarry railways, were invented or discovered. The "ring kilns" that came onto the market in the middle of the 19th century greatly improved the quality and quantity of lime production.

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Service & offer

  • Admission free / free of charge
  • Guided tours
  • Indoor
  • Museum in the house
  • Bad weather offer
  • for groups

Beckum Cement Museum

Öffnungszeiten vom 01.05. to 31.10.
  • Monday
    closed
  • Tuesday
    closed
  • Wednesday
    closed
  • Thursday
    closed
  • Friday
    closed
  • Saturday
    closed
  • Sunday
    14:00 Uhr bis 17:00 Uhr

Visits can be arranged by appointment all year round

Contrary to what is stated, the museum is only open on the first Sunday of every month from May to October. Individual appointments are possible all year round on request.

Admission

  • Free admission:
    0,00 €

Donation requested.

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23
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Ute Bartel: Only half a picture Photographs, installations
23.10.2026, 09:30 23.10.2026, 17:00
Beckum Town Museum, Beckum
Organiser: Stadt Beckum
Exhibition
Art

The perception and transformation of reality through photographic means are central to Ute Bartel’s artistic practice. With the eye of a sculptor, the camera is her most important tool, with which she captures everyday objects, events and places. The photographs, however, serve as material for the core of her artistic practice, which only begins after the photographs have been taken.

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23.10.2026, 09:30 23.10.2026, 17:00
Location
Beckum Town Museum
Markt 1
59269 Beckum
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24
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Beckum weekly market
24.10.2026, 07:00 24.10.2026, 13:00
Beckum marketplace, Beckum
Organiser: Stadt Beckum
Market

The weekly market takes place twice a week - on Wednesdays and Saturdays - in Beckum's parlour - the market square. In addition to regional fruit and vegetables, flowers, baked goods, dairy products, eggs, meat and sausage products, fish and other delicacies can be purchased. The weekly market also offers a variety of food options (e.g. fish products, waffles, coffee, bread and baked goods, etc.). The weekly market is also a meeting place for young and old and invites you to stroll and linger.

Time
24.10.2026, 07:00 24.10.2026, 13:00
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Beckum marketplace
Markt 1
59269 Beckum
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24
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Ute Bartel: Only half a picture Photographs, installations
24.10.2026, 15:00 24.10.2026, 17:00
Beckum Town Museum, Beckum
Organiser: Stadt Beckum
Exhibition
Art

The perception and transformation of reality through photographic means are central to Ute Bartel’s artistic practice. With the eye of a sculptor, the camera is her most important tool, with which she captures everyday objects, events and places. The photographs, however, serve as material for the core of her artistic practice, which only begins after the photographs have been taken.

Time
24.10.2026, 15:00 24.10.2026, 17:00
Location
Beckum Town Museum
Markt 1
59269 Beckum
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Oct
25
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Ute Bartel: Only half a picture Photographs, installations
25.10.2026, 09:30 25.10.2026, 17:00
Beckum Town Museum, Beckum
Organiser: Stadt Beckum
Exhibition
Art

The perception and transformation of reality through photographic means are central to Ute Bartel’s artistic practice. With the eye of a sculptor, the camera is her most important tool, with which she captures everyday objects, events and places. The photographs, however, serve as material for the core of her artistic practice, which only begins after the photographs have been taken.

Time
25.10.2026, 09:30 25.10.2026, 17:00
Location
Beckum Town Museum
Markt 1
59269 Beckum
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Oct
28
Mi
Beckum weekly market
28.10.2026, 07:00 28.10.2026, 13:00
Beckum marketplace, Beckum
Organiser: Stadt Beckum
Market

The weekly market takes place twice a week - on Wednesdays and Saturdays - in Beckum's parlour - the market square. In addition to regional fruit and vegetables, flowers, baked goods, dairy products, eggs, meat and sausage products, fish and other delicacies can be purchased. The weekly market also offers a variety of food options (e.g. fish products, waffles, coffee, bread and baked goods, etc.). The weekly market is also a meeting place for young and old and invites you to stroll and linger.

Time
28.10.2026, 07:00 28.10.2026, 13:00
Location
Beckum marketplace
Markt 1
59269 Beckum
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4 tips for the cement museum

  • One look at the Dyckerhoff Lake in Beckum will make you think you've landed in the Caribbean. But this is actually Münsterland. Because of its turquoise-coloured water, the lake is also known as the "Blue Lagoon".
  • The Aktivpark Phönix is located right next to Beckum city centre. Here you can look forward to numerous leisure activities.
  • The Tuttenbrock leisure lake is the perfect summer destination. Here you can go water skiing or swimming, among other things.
  • On a tour of Beckum city centre, you can pay a visit to the Beckum City Museum. Four to six times a year, the museum puts on special exhibitions of contemporary modern art that are well worth seeing.

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