Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund

The Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund was founded in 1883 and is the oldest of its kind in the Ruhr district. Proud of Dortmund’s great medieval past and its growing industrial importance, the city fathers and dedicated citizens established the basis of the museum’s extensive and exquisite collections at that time. Today, it is one of the few municipal museums that can boast such a cross-section of exhibits from archaeological finds to other valuable holdings and the liberal and applied arts, as well as the history of rural, urban and court life and the city itself. Highlights of the collection include the Late Roman coins from the Dortmund ‘Treasure Trove’, medieval panel paintings, exquisite gold and silverwork from the 16^th to the 18^th centuries and other court artefacts, paintings by Caspar David Friedrich in the superb gallery of 19^th-century art and the valuable collection of applied art and modern design that is unique in the area.

Since 1983 the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte has been housed in the remodelled, former main Savings Bank that was built in 1924 in the Art Deco style as one of Hugo Steinbach’s first reinforced concrete buildings. Revamped between 1997 and 2000, it now successfully combines the art and history collections.

Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Hansastr. 3
44137 Dortmund
T 0231-50-25522
F 0231-50-25511
E mkk@stadtdo.de
www.museendortmund.de/mkk