Stadtmuseum Paderborn

The Paderborn City Museum uses modern presentation techniques to explore the history of the city.

The Paderborn City Museum in the heart of the city, close to the Paderquell area and the cathedral, explores the historical dimension of the city's identity, which is reflected in images, buildings, historical collections and memories.

In addition to numerous models, media and audio stations that bring a past cityscape back to life, the "object store", which displays the diversity of the cultural-historical collections of the city of Paderborn and others, is the museum's central exhibition space. Unique to the museum location is the cloister and garden of the Abdinghof monastery founded by Bishop Meinwerk in 1015/16. In the "Open Foyer", the city museum is dedicated to topics of the urban present and future. In addition to lectures, concerts and theater performances, current artistic positions and trends are shown here in special exhibitions. Cultural-historical exhibitions also have their place here. In the "City Laboratory", adults, children and young people can become researchers of the city's 1200-year history. Regular public tours round off the offer.