LVR Industrial Museums

At seven authentic sites, the LVR-Industrial Museum relate to the story of industrialisation along the Rhine and the Ruhr and how this work and daily grind formed the people in past and present, including in terms of migration and diversity.

The Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) is a local authority association with around 22.000 employees working for the 9.8 million people in the Rhineland. With its 41 schools, ten clinics, 20 museums and cultural institutions, four youth welfare centres, the state youth welfare office and the association for curative education, it fulfils tasks that are carried out throughout the Rhineland. The 13 independent cities and twelve districts in the Rhineland and the Aachen city region are the member authorities of the LVR. At seven authentic sites, the LVR-Industrial Museum relate to the story of industrialisation along the Rhine and the Ruhr and how this work and daily grind formed the people in past and present, including in terms of migration and diversity. The museum sites are the places where all this actually took place:the former factories, now being the sites of the museum.