Menden Industrial Museum - Rödinghausen Estate

The Rödinghausen estate in Lendringsen has been extensively renovated in recent years. The new industrial museum on the upper floor of the classicist manor house has been open to visitors since September 2020. Over 300 years of industrial history in Menden and the region are presented on around 220 m².

A unique museum scenography provides visitors with unusual perspectives on the diversity of local products. Visitors experience these products in a "floating museum": In transparent glass bodies of the filigree half-timbered showcases, the approximately 1000 objects are suspended on nylon threads and the thinnest steel cables and are visible from all sides. Media and hands-on stations offer a variety of incentives to become active in the exhibition and experience the history with all your senses.

The centuries-old industrial history of Menden and the region is characterized by the pioneering spirit, inventiveness and business acumen of the factory owners from the local nobility and the Mark Brandenburg bourgeoisie. An enormous variety of products is the result of their entrepreneurial activity. It owes its practical implementation to the diligence of the workers. This world of ideas is staged as a floating museum in specially developed room sequences. The special conclusion of the tour is the Gallery of Talking Portraits, in which animated paintings enter into a polyphonic discussion with contemporary witnesses of Menden's industrial history and the visitors.

The manor house with its English landscape garden and the varied special exhibitions from the fields of art and cultural history are also always worth a visit. Cultural events take place regularly in the fireplace hall, such as the two-week Passagen art festival, which starts every year at the end of August.

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