Theater Dortmund, including

Music Theatre

Ballet

Playhouse

Philharmonic

Youth Theatre

Children's Opera

Ballet Centre at Westfalenpark

Konzerthaus Dortmund
Westphalia Philharmonic


Choir Academie at Konzerthaus
Europe's largest singing school


Museums:

Museum Ostwall at the Dortmund U
art of the 20th and 21st centuries, Expressionism, Informele, ZERO, Fluxus and Nouveau Realisme plus sculpture

Museum of Art and Cultural History
founded in 1883; major collections of painting and sculpture to 1900; furniture, graphic design, photography, textiles, local history, archaeology and the history of surveying

Museum of Natural History
collections of geological, zoological and botanical interest; tropical freshwater aquarium; model coalmine; diamond cutting facility

Westphalian School Museum
educational history of Dortmund and Westphalia

Museum Adlerturm (“Eagle Tower”)
The history and development of Dortmund's townscape from the middle ages to today

Westphalia Industrial Museum – Zollern Colliery II/IV
former showcase coalmine of one of the largest mining companies in the Ruhr, then Germany's first industrial memorial; social and cultural history of the Ruhr

German Cookbook Museum
kitchen equipment and the role of women and in the 19th and 20th centuries

Brewing Museum
the cultural history of beer

The Steinwache Memorial
housed in a former police and Gestapo prison, this is a permanent exhibition entitled “Resistance and Repression in Dortmund: 1933 – 1945”

Hoesch Museum
the history of the steel industry to this day

German Health and Safety Exhibition (DASA)
permanent exhibition about the world of work and its place in society

hARTware media art
changing exhibitions and events involving media art

Phoenix Hall
media art exhibitions plus a permanent exhibition dedicated to the "New Dortmund"

Art Gallery at Romberg Park Gatehouse
exhibitions and concerts

The Old Harbour Authority Museum
exhibitions about navigation and today's harbour business

Borusseum
soccer museum - tradition in black and yellow


Dortmunder U
centre for arts and creativity


Dortmund Music School
instrument lessons and singing tuition
music from all genres and styles


FZW – Freizeitzentrum West
Regional and international concerts and events in hall, club and bar


domicil
jazz club, world music, avant-garde


Dietrich-Keuning-Haus
centre for cultural and educational projects
events and intercultural dialogue
skate park


Fritz-Henßler-Haus
youth centre
live programmes
circus school „Zirkus Fritzantino“ for children of all ages


Theater Fletch Bizzel
theatre, gallery, cultural workshop


Theater Olpketal


Roto Theater


Cabaret Queue
comedy and cabaret


Depot/Theater im Depot
multicultural centre for theatre, arts and media


balou
cultural centre, youth art school, adult education


Künstlerhaus
exhibitions and studios, international visiting artists


Langer August
sociocultural centre, community action


Adlerstraße Community Centre
cultural centre, community action, training opportunities


Hansa Theater Hörde at the WBZ Workshop Centre
theatre, community action


The Company of Thunderman
Travesty Show at Altes Gasthaus Grube


Harenberg City-Center
music, cabaret and culture


Arthouse Cinemas

Roxy

Camera

Schauburg – cinema and live acts

Filmclub sweetSixteen at Depot

Westfalenhallen (Westphalia Halls)
events, exhibition and conference centre with nine multi-purpose halls and floor space of 60,000 square metres


library and archive services:

City and State Library
1 million items, of which 70,00 non-books
1,200 subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals
14,000 musical scores
1,450 graphics and sculptures
Digital library
Databases
Literacy projects
Literary events
Training courses
School@Library
Senior Citizens & Library
Calligraphy department
Mobile library service
Ten district libraries

Institute for Newspaper Research
70 current newspapers
200 trade journals and popular magazines
22,000 volumes of newspapers
36,000 volumes of periodicals
111,000 microfilms of newspapers and journals
62,000 books on the subject of mass communication and journalism
Other collections include: early prints ("incunabula)" and political and cultural posters
Flyers
Cartoons
Materials from the time of the March Revolution 1848
Emigrant newspapers 1933-1945
Literary estates of journalists

Fritz-Hüser-Institut for literature and culture of the working world
40,000 volumes
Monographs and journals
Estates of working class authors of the 19th and 20th centuries
Media and photo archives
Document archives focusing on worker culture

City Archives Dortmund
Dortmund's memory for information and history

University Library
1.76 million volumes
plus a special reference centre
2,500 print journals
24,000 electronic journals

University of Applied Sciences Library
139,000 volumes
350 current journals
Access to 15,000 electronic journals
70 specials databases relating to subjects taught by the faculties

Westphalian Business Archives Foundation
50,000 volumes on economic and social history
Eight shelf kilometres

Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (Federal Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) – public library on the subject of health and safety at work
200,000 volumes
1,200 periodicals, of which 550 journals


Arts awards:

The Nelly Sachs Prize for outstanding literary contributions to the promotion of understanding between peoples
1995 Michael Ondaatje (Toronto)
1997 Javier Marias (Spain)
1999 Christa Wolff (Germany)
2001 Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (France)
2003 Per Olov Enquist (Sweden)
2005 Aharon Appelfeld (Israel)
2007 Rafik Schami (Syria/Germany)
2009/2010 Margaret Atwood (Canada)


Preis der Kulturstiftung Dortmund - awarded every two years alternately for music and visual arts

1998 Julia Varady (music)
2000 Jörg Immendorff (visual arts)
2002 Aribert Reimann (music)
2004 Jürgen Partenheimer (visual arts)
2006 Pierre-Laurent Aimard (music)
2008 Otto Piene (visual arts)
2010 Anne-Sophie Mutter (music)


Cultural Office
Initiator, presenter and service provider of cultural events, projects and initiatives; (co)-organisers of festivals and major events – e.g. Micro!Festival, LesArt, Geierabend, Favoriten and International Jazz Days
Exhibitions
Events series
Cultural awards and funding programmes


KIS - KulturInfoShop
central information and advanced booking


churches

Sankt Reinoldi (“St Reinoldi's”): Protestant, Gothic-style cathedral built in the 13th century and named after Dortmund's patron saint Reinoldus

Sankt Marien (“St Mary's”): Protestant, predominantly Roman-style architecture from the 12th century with an altarpiece by Master Conrad von Soest

Sankt Petri (“St Peter's”): Protestant, a 14th-century Gothic church with an Antwerp-style wooden altar carved by members of the Guild of St Luke circa 1521

Propsteikirche (“Provost Church”): Roman Catholic, a Gothic aisled church from the 14th/15th centuries, formerly a Dominican cloister church

Sankt Peter zu Syburg (“St Peter of Syburg”): Protestant, built in the 12th century on the foundations of church first built in 799 AD

Bittermark Mahnmal
park memorial dedicated to those murdered by the National Socialists

scene: in nrw
A country and its culture invited to guest in NRW, that's the concept behind the biennial and binational festival scene: in nrw. In fact, the original idea came from Dortmund. Since 1957, Dortmund has regularly run the City of Dortmund International Arts & Culture Week. At each of these festivals, the focus is on a specific country and its arts and culture: At each of these festivals, the focus was/is on a specific country and its culture …

1994 Italy
1996 Netherlands
1998 Denmark
2000 France
2002 Great Britain
2004 Switzerland
2006 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
2008 Austria
2010 Hungary

Festivals:

Dortmund|Cologne International Women's Film Festival
takes place every year alternating between Dortmund and Cologne, with international competitions and prestigious awards – for women directors etc.

Mommenta
Concerts at various buildings throughout Dortmund

LesArt
Literature festival

International Jazz Days

Favoriten / Theaterzwang
Festival for the fringe theatre scene in NRW, taking place every two years

Geierabend
Dortmund's answer to the Rhineland Mardi Gras with comedy, cabaret and carnival

Summer Dance Week
Dancing culture at St Reinoldi's Church

Juicy Beats
Festival for electronic music in Westfalenpark Dortmund

Audiodigitale
Electronic music, media art, design

Chreole NRW
World Music Festival with contests