LVR-Industriemuseum
Textilfabrik Cromford
Cromforder Allee 24
40878 Ratingen
Regular opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday, Sunday, holidays 11 am - 6 pm
Monday closed
For school groups the museum opens on request already at 9 am.
Open on the following holidays:
Easter Sunday (9/4/2023), Ascension Day (5/18/2023), Whit Sunday (5/28/2023), Corpus Christi (6/8/2023), German Unity Day (10/3/2023), All Saints Day (11/1/2023).
Closed on the following holidays:
Good Friday (4/7/2023), Easter Monday (4/10/2023), Labor Day (5/1/2023), Whit Monday (5/29/2023).
Carnival Closure:
Weiberfastnacht (2/16/2023) through and including Carnival Tuesday (2/21/2023).
Closing dates:
All venues of the LVR Industrial Museum will be closed from 12/23/2023 to 1/1/2024 inclusive.
Normal entrance fee: 5 €, reduced 4.00 € (Students, severely disabled persons, unemployed persons upon presentation of a welfare card or other official document), Groups from 10 persons 4 € per person
Children and adolescents (up to 18 years of age): Entrance free
School classes (with up 2 accompanying persons): Entrance free
Entrance free of charge for all: 1st Friday in the month
Free admission for refugees
Refugees have free admission to the museums of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland. In this way, the LVR would like to help refugees learn about the history and culture of the Rhineland.
For free admission, an official certificate must be presented. Admission is also free for accompanying persons who care for refugees. (max. 2 persons per group)
With the LVR Museum card, you have free admission to the museums of the LVR and LWL for one year from the date of purchase.
Other reductions:
DB Abo & mehr: 25 %
NRW-Ehrenamt: 50 %
Rheinischer Verein: 25 %
Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein: 25 %
Entrance free: RuhrTopCard (1x per year), Members of Bundesverband Museumspädagogik e.V, Associations of Friends of the LVR-Industriemuseum, Members of Deutscher Museumsbund, Members of ICOM (International Council of Museums), Juleica (JugendleiterIn-Card), LVR staff (including pensioners and retirees), recipients of benefits from LVR incl. an accompanying person, Rheinlandtaler-Träger, Members of the Association of Friends of the Stiftung NRW
Price for Guided Tours (up to 25 persons):
Normal group guided tours for adults: 50 €
Normal group guided tours for children’s groups and: 45 € school classes
Guided tours in foreign languages (English, French): 55-60 €
Separate entrance fees apply for temporary exhibitions and events.
Tickets for Textilfabrik Cromford (Textile Mill) can be purchased at the site or in advance from our Ticketshop.
In the Cromford mansion we are happy to loan you an audio-guide to accompany you individually through the various stations of the exhibition.
Language: German
Loan is free of charge. Please ask our museum staff in the mansion.
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
Please note that the number of participants for public guided tours both through the permanent and temporary exhibitions and for the machine demonstrations is limited. We therefore request that groups of eight persons or more book in advance under Tel. 02102 86449205 or per email to shop-imusra@rheinlandkultur.de.
Public transport
Bus stop: Blauer See
Timetable: (VRR) Verkehrsverbundes Rhein-Ruhr
For cyclists
Radroutenplaner des Radwegenetzes NRW (Cycle Route Planner for the Cycle Path Network NRW)
Environment zone: no
Environment zone: no
It is also possible to reach the museum from the “Blauer See” car park by walking along the railway line and the former bleaching meadows. The route is signposted, approx. 600 m.
Limited parking facilities are available in Cromforder Allee and in the courtyard behind the museum (Access on right passed the mansion)
There are two marked disabled parking spaces in the courtyard behind the museum (Access on right passed the mansion)
Note:
From the bus stop “Blauer See” to the museum (sign-posted path):
The path from the bus stops to the museum as described for persons without restricted mobility is not suitable for persons with restricted mobility because it has a steep gradient. This is particularly the case in the last section of the Cromforder Allee (approx. 12 per cent). The path is, however, barrier-free.
Note:
Visitors can either take a bus from the station or walk to the museum.
With bus from station to the museum:
On foot from the station to the museum (Time: approx. 30 Minutes, Distance: approx. 2 km):
The route on foot is not barrier-free.
In the case of visitors with restricted mobility it is probably best not to walk to the museum from the station as there are relatively steep slopes and unevenness on the route which is approximately 2 kilometres long. It is better to continue the journey from the station by bus.
Note: