Ruhr Museum - Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex - 🇩🇪 Germany [4K HDR] Walking Tour

A virtual tour of The Ruhr Museum, formerly the Ruhrland Museum, is a diverse natural history and cultural history museum for the Ruhrgebiet in Essen, Germany. This tour features the entire tour of all levels including the top level with a spectacular view of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, part the UNESCO World Heritages Site.

(From Wiki):
The Ruhr Museum understands itself as a memory and showcase of the Ruhr area, documents in its permanent exhibition nature, culture and history of the Ruhr area and thus the development of the largest agglomeration in Europe.

The new permanent exhibition in the Kohlenwäsche (Coal wash) of the Zeche Zollverein colliery (A 14, shaft XII) was designed by the Stuttgart office of HG Merz and is divided into four levels. On the 24-meter level, which is accessed by the large external escalator - the largest in Germany - there is a cash and information desk, a café, and the museum shop. On the 17 meter level, myths, phenomena and structures of the present Ruhr area are presented. The 12-meter level represents the region's pre-industrial memory and also includes the museum's collections on archeology, ethnology and natural history. On the 6 meter level the history of the Ruhr area in the industrial age is represented. Thus the museum is not only an industry museum, but presents a trias of nature, culture and history.

The former Ruhrlandmuseum was closed in April 2007 to make way for the new buildings of the Museum Folkwang. The new Ruhr Museum opened its doors on 20 October 2008 in the coal mine of the World Cultural Heritage Zeche Zollverein, which was rebuilt to plans by Rem Koolhaas,[2] with a presentation of the Essen Cathedral Treasury.

On 9 January 2010, the Ruhr Museum in the Zollverein World Heritage Site was ceremoniously opened in the presence of the Federal President Horst Köhler in the course of the Ruhrgebiet becoming a "Cultural Capital" during the Ruhr.2010 campaign. On the 12-meter level there is an area for temporary exhibitions, likewise in the Gallery 21 in a mezzanine.

Please visit the official Ruhr Museum website for more information:
https://www.ruhrmuseum.de/en/home/

Date recorded: June, 2020
Weather: ☀️ 29C | 84F
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Highlights timestamps (☉ Street/Road | ★ Highlight):

▶(0:00) Start tour
▶(0:48) Elevator Shaft resembling a mine shaft ★
▶(2:00) Main entrance and ticket
▶(4:28) Level 24m - Entrance Ruhr Museum
▶(5:02) Level 17m - Exhibition 'Today'
▶(8:08) Level 17m - Exhibition 'Objects'
▶(13:56) Level 12m - Exhibition 'Traditions'
▶(28:58) Level 12m - Exhibition 'Taxidermy'
▶(32:04) Former Coal Mine Lift
▶(32:30) Level 6m - Exhibition 'History'
▶(46:44) Level 30m - 'Industrial'
▶(48:54) Level 45m - 'Panorma'