LWL-Industriemuseum Glashütte Gernheim
In the Gernheim Glass Tower from 1826, one of the last two preserved buildings of its type in Germany, visitors experience how glassmakers produce vessels from the glowing mass of glass with a pipe, wooden forms and scissors.
Next to this the glass objects are then refined via polishing and engraving. Large parts of the early-industrial factory village of Gernheim in today's Petershagen have been preserved – in addition to the Glass Tower housing for workers that are some of the oldest in Westphalia, the residential house of the former colliery owners and the old basket weaving site can be visited. On several storeys visitors can find out about the production of hollow glassware and sheet glass and can also take a trip through the history of everyday life: around 2,000 exhibits ranging from preserving jars to impressive trophies demonstrate the various uses the glass vessels were put to.
The collection of the LWL-Industriemuseum for (early) industrial glass manufacture consists of approximately 40,000 objects. Included are glassmaker tools, machines, pictorial and written documentation, glass products for everyday use and from the arts and crafts as well as contemporary works of glass art.
The passed-down correspondence between the Gernheim glassworks master Josef Kunkel and the Prussian royal court as well as glass objects with commemorative, Prussian patriotic themes from the time of the German Empire document in particular the history of Prussia within the concept of glass production.
How to get here
Address
Gernheim 12, 32469 Petershagen
How to get here
A2 Oberhausen-Hannover, exit Porta Westfalica. B482 in direction of Porta Westfalica until Lahde, then in direction of Bremen. From the B61 turn right towards Ovenstädt until the museum car park in Gernheim.
Address of the car park for navigation devices: Ovenstädter Straße, Höhe Haus No. 39.
Public transport
From Minden/Westfalen main railway station, bus route 501 in direction of Petershagen until the "Petershagen Marktplatz" stop. From "Petershagen Marktplatz" take bus route 530 towards Uchte or use the TaxiBus (registration by telephone required until 30 minutes before leaving, tel. 05231 977681) to the "Petershagen-Ovenstädt Gernheim" stop.
Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday 10am - 6pm, last entry 5.30pm
Pricing
Adults € 3.00
reduced* € 2.00
Groups from 16 persons € 2.50 per person
Children and young adults (6-17 years old) and pupils € 1.50
Pupils with tour € 1.10 (2 accompanying persons free)
Family day ticket € 7.50
* recipients of running benefits in accordance with Sozialgesetzbuch II and XII, students (exception: "mature studies"), apprentices, performers of national voluntary services, dependants in voluntary social and ecological year, severely disabled persons from 80% (accompanying person free)
Contact details for booking event and placement offers
Phone number
05707 9311-0
Fax
05707 9311-11
glashuette-gernheim@lwl.org
Tourism partner
Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Amt für Wirtschaftsförderung und Kreisentwicklung
OstWestfalenLippe GmbH, Fachbereich Teutoburger Wald Tourismus