Since 1980 the Artothek at the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr has been allowing interested residents of Mülheim the chance to borrow a work of art for their own living rooms once a month for a small fee. The lending period is three months long and can be extended once for another three months. The same fee is charged for an extension.
The selection includes framed prints, photographs, and works in a variety of techniques by internationally known artists such as Christo, Karl Otto Götz, Thomas Huber, Robert Lucander, and Dieter Roth, as well as Ruhr Prize winnders Ursula Hirsch, Werner Graeff, and Heinrich Siepmann, the photographer Evelyn Serwotke and Klaus Urbons, who does “copy art.”
The Artothek is open every first Tuesday in the month during the Kunstmuseum’s opening hours (11 a.m. to 6 p. m.).
The exhibition will open on April 30, 2025 at 4 p.m. and will run from May 1 to September 17, 2025. The exhibition venue is the foyer of the Ruhr-West University of Applied Sciences, Parkstadt Mülheim, Wissolstraße 19
As part of its educational programme, the art museum offers art courses for children, young people and adults under the guidance of experienced art mediators, artists and art educators in the workrooms of the Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum as well as at the two external locations
The Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences and the Kunstmuseum cooperate on a permanent basis - a joint exhibition space at the Parkstadt Mülheim site opens in the summer semester.
