Visitor Information
Peter-Behrens-Bau (Repository and Exhibition Building)
LVR-Industriemusem
Peter-Behrens-Bau
Essener Straße 80
46047 Oberhausen
Friday 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday, Sunday 11am - 6pm
Monday - Thursday closed
Open on the following holidays:
Easter Sunday (3/31/2024), Ascension Day (5/9/2024), Pentecost Sunday (5/19/2024), Corpus Christi (5/30/2024), German Unity Day (10/3/2024), All Saints' Day (11/1/2024)
Closed on the following holidays:
Good Friday (29/3/2024), Easter Monday (4/1/2024), Labor Day (5/1/2024), Whit Monday (5/20/2024)
Carnival Closure:
Weiberfastnacht (2/8/2024) up to and including Rose Monday (2/12/2024)
Closing dates:
All venues of the LVR Industrial Museum will be closed from 12/23/2024 to 1/1/2025 inclusive.
Admission: 6 €
Reduced: € 4 (students, trainees, people doing federal voluntary service, people with severe disabilities, recipients of benefits SGB II and SGB XII)
Groups of 10 or more: €5 per person
Reduced groups of 10 or more: €3.50 (students, trainees, people doing federal voluntary service, people with severe disabilities)
Children and teenagers (up to 18 years): Free admission
Group of schoolchildren and daycare centres: free admission (including accompanying persons)
The LVR Museum Card gives you free admission to the museums of the LVR and LWL for one year from the date of purchase. Admission to special exhibitions and events is not included.
Free admission day for all:
1st Friday of the month. Applies to the permanent exhibition only, does not apply to special exhibitions and events.
Free admission: Ruhr Top Card (once a year to the permanent exhibition), Ruhr Kultur Card (once a year to the permanent exhibition), support associations of the LVR Industrial Museum, LVR benefit recipients incl. one accompanying person, refugees. one accompanying person, refugees, LVR employees, former LVR employees, members of the Rhineland Regional Assembly, former members of the Rhineland Regional Assembly, Rhineland Valley bearers, journalists with a press card, members of the International Council of Museums, members of the German Museums Association, members of the Federal Association of Museum Education, members of the Federal Association of Tour Guides, the NRW Foundation, bus drivers of visitor groups, holders of the youth licence (Juleica), RKG Staff
Tickets for the exhibition can be purchased at the museum or in advance from our Webshop.
Please note that dogs are not permitted in the museum. Assistance dogs are exempt from this.
kulturinfo rheinland
Tel.: 02234 9921555
(Mon - Fri 8 - 18 hours; Sat, Sun and public holidays 10 - 15 hours)
Fax: 02234 9921300
Email: info@kulturinfo-rheinland.de
Local public transport
From Oberhausen Main station, Bus platform 1 with all buses and tram lines to the stop "Neue Mitte". From there approx. 5 minutes on foot.
To timetable information of VRR
For cyclists
Car
Driving on the A42 (Dortmund-Kamp-Lintfort) take Exit 10 / Oberhausen-Zentrum. Drive on the B223/ Konrad-Adenauer-Allee in direction of Oberhausen. Then turn left into the Essener Straße.
The Peter-Behrens-Bau is situated on the left-hand side. There are parking spaces on the large area directly in front of the Peter-Behrens-Bau Repository and Exhibition Building).
