Points of Interest
At the Campus
1. Digital Campustour
https://www.thinglink.com/card/1576165111440080898
2. Kunst am Bau / Architectural art
Thanks to its numerous works of art on, in and between the buildings, the Ruhr University is a unique open-air museum of modern art. Most works can be viewed around the clock.
https://uni.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/node/524
3. Kunstsammlung / Art Collection
https://www.kusa-rub-moderne.de/
Modern and contemporary art meets antiquity: two top-class collections are presented in the Ruhr University's art collections on campus. The Modern Collection highlights development trends in US and European art from post-war modernism to the present day; the Antiquities Collection shows Greek, Roman and Persian artifacts.
4. Botanischer Garten / Botanical Garden
If you want to go on a botanical trip around the world or are simply looking for peace and relaxation in the countryside, the Ruhr University Botanical Garden is an exotic oasis that is worth visiting at any time of the year. In the Querenburg district, located on the southeastern edge of the city of Bochum, the Botanical Garden has stretched over the southern slope of the Ruhr University campus since 1971. Covering an area of 13 hectares, it is home to over 10,000 plant species, making it one of the largest botanical gardens in Germany.
https://www.boga.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/garten/index.html.de
In Bochum
1. Deutsches Bergbaumuseum / German Mining Museum
Founded in 1930, the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – as the Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources – is tasked with collecting, preserving, investigating, exhibiting and teaching the material heritage of the mining industry. This is a duty that we honour both above and below ground, whether it be here in Bochum, or regionally, nationally or even internationally. Our mission statement reads: To spread the knowledge and experience of mining. And we do all of this under one roof.
https://www.bergbaumuseum.de/en/
2. Museum unter Tage / Museum in the mines
The underground museum, or MuT for short, is an extension of Situation Kunst and was opened in November 2015 after just one year of construction, in time for the 50th anniversary of the Ruhr University Bochum. The underground exhibition rooms cover an area of over 1,500 square meters and offer sufficient space for the permanent exhibition “World Views – Landscape in Art for Six Centuries” as well as for attractive temporary exhibitions from the Ruhr University Bochum.
https://situation-kunst.de/mut
3. Kunstmuseum Bochum / Museum of Arts
The Bochum Art Museum is the city's lively center for fine art. It collects, preserves and presents international art from 1900 to the present and distinguishes itself through cross-disciplinary themed exhibitions and events. The museum is located in the middle of the dense museum landscape of the Ruhr area and was founded in 1960 as the "Municipal Art Gallery" in the Villa Marckhoff in Bochum's historic city park. Since 1983, the works of art can be found in the new building by the Danish architects Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert. The museum complex can be recognized from afar thanks to its striking light installation "Skyline" by François Morellet - a blue light trail along the facade.
https://www.kunstmuseumbochum.de/
4. Planetarium
Fascinating flights through our solar system, to distant galaxies and to the edge of the observable universe - what sounds like a fantastic journey is made possible by the Bochum Zeiss Planetarium for its guests using the latest projection technology.
If you take a seat under the huge dome in one of the Zeiss Planetarium's more than 250 comfortable armchairs, you can forget about your everyday life for an hour. The central projector lets more than 9,000 stars shine over visitors' heads. Such a firmament can otherwise only be seen in remote places on earth, far away from the disturbing light of large cities.
https://www.planetarium-bochum.de/de_DE/home