Museumstag in Westerburg

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On Sunday, 19 May, the International Museum Day will be celebrated this year. The mayor of Westerburg, Ralf Seekatz, is delighted that the museums in Westerburg will open their doors again on this day and invite visitors on a short journey through time. The motto this time is "Museums - the future of living traditions".

Free admission to the International Museum Day
For example, visitors to the Westerburg Museum of Local History and Traditional Costumes, the Westerburg Railway Station, the Railway Poster Museum in the old railway station building and the Museum of Local History, Backes and Oven Builders in the Gershasen district can go on a discovery tour free of charge.

Museum of local history and traditional costumes invites you to
This Sunday, May 19, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Museum Association "anno dazumal" invites you to visit the Museum of Local History and Traditional Costumes, which is located in the upper rooms of the Town Hall. It is the only traditional costume museum in Rhineland-Palatinate. It houses numerous old treasures from Westerburg and the surrounding area as well as several original costumes from various European countries and more than 150 small-format costumes.

In addition to the Westerwald Sunday and holiday costumes, the Westerwald everyday costumes are also represented. In a good old parlour you can take a look into the past: here you will find a loom, oven, bed, reel, spinning wheel, linen cupboard and children's basket from around 1850 to 1870.

Other old treasures can be seen in showcases and display cases. In the Westerburger Stube coffee and cake will be served this afternoon.

Address: Home and traditional costume museum Westerburg, Neustraße 40, 56457 Westerburg.

Get to know the Erlebnisbahnhof Westerburg 
On Sunday, 19 May, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., all visitors interested in railways and technology will get their hands on historic railway vehicles and railway technology at the Erlebnisbahnhof Westerburg.
The members of the association "Westerwälder Eisenbahnfreunde 44 508" want to preserve and document the historical railway in the Westerwald region for posterity. Vehicles such as steam locomotives, snow ploughs etc., which were part of everyday life for the older generations, can be seen here.

Unique in Germany and therefore extremely worth seeing is the special collection of rail vehicles of the Bundeswehr, which is housed in the halls of the Westerwald adventure railway station. The historic locomotive shed invites you to visit the museum locomotives located there. In particular, visitors can get a vivid impression of the further construction of the heavy freight steam locomotive 44 508, which has made considerable progress in recent months and for which the brake system is currently being reinstalled.

Address: Westerburg Railway Station, Bahnhofstrasse 46c, 56457 Westerburg.

The Railway Poster Museum in the old station building is also open from 10 am to 5 pm. Wilfried Rink has collected more than 200 posters so far. His extensive collection includes advertising posters of both German and international railways from the 1930s to the present day.
On this day the new special exhibition "Nahverkehr auf der Schiene" will be on display for the first time. It comprises 20 posters from Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris and London. The permanent exhibition also includes a number of posters that have not yet been shown, such as the poster published by London Transport for the wedding of Charles and Diana, and two posters by British Rain on the conversion of the currency to the decimal system in 1971.

Homeland Baking and Oven Museum
The Alte Backes in Gershasen, where the Heimat-Backes- und Ofenbauermuseum is located, is a real eye-catcher not only from the outside but also inside the building, which was built in 1949, a lot has happened in recent years. While the old oven is still on the ground floor, the upper rooms are lovingly furnished with all kinds of kitchen utensils and appliances from the old days.

The extensive exhibition is enriched by a cosy village parlour with furnishings from earlier times as well as tools and appliances from local stove builders and farmers. Nearly 200 exhibits lead the observer into a long forgotten time and give an insight into the then arduous work of housewives and farmers. The museum is open on Sunday, 19 May, from 2 pm to 4 pm.

Address: Gershasen Museum of Local History, Baking and Oven Building, Ofenbauerstraße, 56457 Westerburg-Gershasen.

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