The Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl is a member of the RuhrKunstMuseen. The 20 art museums in the Ruhr area have joined forces to form the RuhrKunstMuseen network www.ruhrkunstmuseen.ruhr2010.de. Most of the museums focus on twentieth-century and contemporary art, as well as nineteenth-century art, as well as old and non-European art, in individual houses with significant collections.

From Duisburg to Hamm, from Hagen to Marl, a coherent network of top-class collections spans over 15 cities, housed in industrial heritage buildings, castles, outstanding post-war decades, and spectacular new buildings. A visit to the museums is also a representative foray through the Building Culture of the Ruhr area.

The cooperation of the RuhrKunstMuseen impressively illustrates the multifaceted holdings of modern and contemporary art in the museums landscape Ruhr. On the basis of joint communication, exhibition activities and mediation work, visitors and residents have been able to experience and find out the diversity of the museum offerings of the cultural metropolis Ruhr since the beginning of 2010.

 

Networking
At the beginning of their cooperation, the networking of the different houses in the Capital of Culture year RUHR.2010 with the joint art education program "Collection Tours" (http://ruhrkunstmuseen.ruhr2010.de/) was successfully clarified. In parallel, the museums presented the exhibition series "Mapping the Region" ( http://ruhrkunstmuseen.ruhr2010.de/)

 

Strengthening cultural education and mediation

With the merger of large and small houses with national and international charisma, the RuhrKunstMuseen will not only sustainably strengthen cultural education and mediation and develop exhibitions that use the means of art to reflect the future of the third largest European metropolitan area Ruhr area, but above all In the long term, too, their collections will become more aware.

Promenade through art history

Under the title "RuhrKunstMuseen. The collection "was the first joint catalog published in 2010. It takes into account the overall idea of the network to make visible the versatile art landscape with its unique collection of modern art. An introductory essay by Georg Imdahl on the" Images of the Ruhr Area "is followed by a 150-page colored illustration section with the masterpieces of the museums. This journey through art history to the present is followed by self-portrayals of the individual museums with photographs of the exhibition spaces and architecture. Among the highlights of the collection include a.o. works by Liebermann, Renoir, Matisse, Lehmbruck, Marc, Macke, Kirchner as well as Albers, Richter, Stella, Schumacher, Höfer or Turrell. The publication, which is available in the 20 museums and bookshops, has been published in German with an English summary.

Cities

A free information leaflet available in all RuhrArt museums gives a compact overview of the Ruhr Museum Landscape, suggestions for museum tours and practical information for the museum visit.

The RuhrKunstMuseen are:

    Kunstmuseum Bochum          
    Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum:
    Campusmuseum. Sammlung Moderne und Stiftung Situation Kunst
    Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop
    Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U
    Museum DKM, Duisburg
    MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg
    LehmbruckMuseum, Duisburg
    Museum Folkwang, Essen
    Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
    Osthaus Museum Hagen
    Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen
    Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm
    Flottmann-Hallen Herne
    Städtische Galerie des Emschertal-Museums Herne
    Museum Haus Opherdicke
    Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
    Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr
    LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen
    Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
    Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna
    Märkisches Museum Witten

    RuhrKunstMuseen