Aachen (dpa / lnw) - A broken aircraft propeller and a teddy bear from the post-war years: The House of History North Rhine-Westphalia received several objects for the development of the collection at the first stop of its mobile museum in Aachen. The exhibition on wheels should be in Aachen by Sunday. The show, housed in a container, had a great response and was always well attended, said the House of History NRW.
On Saturday, visitors could show memorabilia steeped in history. Among them was a woman who had done an apprenticeship in the male-dominated painting trade early on, as her journeyman’s certificate from 1955 showed. The museum received a broken propeller blade from a biplane, said the North Rhine-Westphalia House of History Foundation. The plane crashed over the Sauerland in 1956, when private flying was just allowed again. The team on board survived. The son of the pilot at the time gave the black-painted wooden propeller to the NRW Museum for the collection.
The next stop for the museum on wheels will be Gelsenkirchen from November 2nd. Here, too, there should again be a collection Saturday. The show will then be held in Detmold. The only 13 square meter "MuseumMobil" shows 53 objects on the history of the state - for example on football, coal or NRW musicians such as Herbert Grönemeyer, Nena and BAP. In the coming years, the container show will come to all 53 districts and cities in the country.
The Museum of State History will move into a historic building near the state parliament in Düsseldorf. After the conversion, 4500 square meters will be available for permanent and temporary exhibitions. There are already between 7000 and 8000 exhibits in the depot. "That's not much for a collection," said Hans Walter Hütter, head of the North Rhine-Westphalia House of History Foundation.
