Ruhr Museum

The Ruhr Museum, previously the Ruhrland Museum, is a various herbal records and cultural records museum for the Ruhrgebiet in Essen, Germany. The sponsor is the Stiftung Ruhr Museum. Director given that 2012 is the historian Heinrich Theodor Grutter. The former Ruhrlandmuseum turned into closed in April 2007 to make manner for the new homes of the Museum Folkwang. The new Ruhr Museum opened its doors on 20 October 2008 inside the coal mine of the World Cultural Heritage Zeche Zollverein, which turned into rebuilt to plans with the aid of Rem Koolhaas, with a presentation of the Essen Cathedral Treasury.

On 9 January 2010, the Ruhr Museum inside the Zollverein World Heritage Site turned into ceremoniously opened within the presence of the Federal President Horst Kohler within the route of the Ruhrgebiet turning into a "Cultural Capital" throughout the Ruhr.2010 marketing campaign. The museum, which is aware itself as a memory and showcase of the Ruhr place, documents in its everlasting exhibition nature, lifestyle and records of the Ruhr vicinity and for that reason the development of the biggest agglomeration in Europe.