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Museums Attractions In Essen

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Essen is the fourth largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and its population of approximately 589,000 also makes it the ninth largest city of Germany, as well as the third largest city of the Rhineland after Cologne and Düsseldorf. On the Ruhr and Emscher rivers , it lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, of which it is the second largest city after Dortmund. The Ruhr is itself part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the most highly populated area in Europe with a population of 13,400,000. Essen lies in the Low German and Low Franconian dialect areas. Essen is seat to several...
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Museums Attractions In Essen

  • 1. Museum Folkwang Essen
    Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902.The term Folkwang derives from the name of the afterlife meadow of the dead, Fólkvangr, presided over by the Norse goddess Freyja.Museum Folkwang incorporates the Deutsche Plakat Museum , comprising circa 340,000 posters from politics, economy and culture. During a visit in Essen in 1932, Paul J. Sachs called the Folkwang the most beautiful museum in the world.In 2007, David Chipperfield designed an extension, which was then built onto the older building.
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  • 4. Red Dot Design Museum Essen
    The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners being presented in an annual ceremony. Winning products are presented in the Red Dot Design Museum on the premises of the historical Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen. The Red Dot Design Museum Essen was built in 1997, it is also the first Red Dot Design Museum. The second Red Dot Design Museum was built in Singapore in 2005. In 2013, the Red Dot Design Museum Taipei was opened.The Red Dot Design Award had more than 15,500 submissions from 70 countries in 20...
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