Duration: 1.5 hours

Cost: 45 Euro plus admission fee

Participants: max. 25

Tech for everyone: If you want to know all the technical details, this is the tour for you! This guided tour has a technical focus, providing in-depth information on how blast furnaces and steelworks operate. Of course, there will also be ample opportunity to talk shop.

Duration: 1 hour / 1.5 hours

Participants: max. 20

Cost: 45 Euro plus admission

The Ruhr region is known for its industrial heritage. But what exactly was done at the steelworks? How were iron and steel produced, and who used to work here?
The tour takes you on a scavenger hunt around the blast furnace and across the former factory grounds.

Duration: 1.5 hours

Participants: max. of 25

Cost: 45 Euro plus admission fee

Industrial fallow lands are among the most species-rich green spaces. During this tour of the grounds, you will learn how this came to be and what makes reclaimed industrial land so special. Typical plants will be presented. The tour focuses on soil, water, and climate. Smell and touch will sharpen your senses and understanding.

Duration: 1.5 hours

Cost: 45 Euro plus admission fee

Participants: max. of 25 people

After 1940, prisoners of war, forced labourers, and foreign workers were employed at Henrichshütte ironworks in Hattingen. This tour focuses on the special role of Henrichshütte as an armaments factory and the people who worked here during the Nazi era. 

Duration: 1.5 hours

Participants: max. 25

Cost: 45 Euro plus admission

How did the work environments and gender-specific roles of people at Henrichshütte change over time? Who worked where and how freely could people choose their profession? During the tour, we will learn about the steelworks through the lens of gender. Different points of view encourage visitors to think critically and discuss employment conditions of the past and present.

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: 95 Euro plus admission

Participants: maximum 12, ages 10 and up

In our demonstration foundry, you can learn from mold makers. Together with former smelters, you will create your own sand mold. You can watch the subsequent casting process from a safe distance and then take the metal object home with you.

Special note: bookable from April to October, Wednesdays only

Duration: 1.5 hours

Cost: 65 Euro plus admission

Participants: maximum 12

Shaping, melting, casting, cleaning – you can experience the key steps of casting up close at the Henrichshütte. Watch from a safe distance as volunteers at the smelter cast liquid metal.

Special note: Only bookable on Wednesdays from April to October

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: 65 Euro plus admission

Participants: maximum 14

The workshop invites those who enjoy experimenting and are interested in photography to explore the Industrial Museum and try their hand at light painting. Participants can construct their own lighting tools and try out different effects. In the museum itself or in the studio, they can then experiment with different light sources and exposure times to try out motifs and effects until the finished light painting is complete.

Outreach Program

Duration: 1 hour

Cost: 45 Euro plus outreach fee: For events and programs outside the LWL Museum Henrichshütte, we charge a flat fee of 30 Euro for travel and preparation/follow-up work.

Participants: By arrangement, depending on the group, max. 20 people

We come to you. Our visit to your location focuses on work and life in the Ruhr region, using the Henrichshütte as an example. We invite you to engage in sensory recollection and exchange, and we bring things with us. We invite our participants to join in and share: feel free to unpack your own story! It will be a sensory experience: feeling, touching, hearing, smelling, trying things out, or simply observing. Whatever each person wants and is able to do. With the help of the participants' sensory memories, interactions between them will develop and storytelling and exchange will be encouraged.
educational team.

Note:

You are welcome to discuss specific topics and special requirements with us when registering. We bring objects that can be held, touched, felt, heard, and smelled. Participants are welcome to bring a piece of their own history with them: we welcome favorite objects, photos, and stories. We work in a dialogical manner.
Sounds, smells, objects, or photos can also trigger negative memories and emotions. Therefore, please consider the biographical background of your group and, if necessary, share this information with the museum education team.