Since the summer of 2019, four tours guide visitors through the building: Hard Coal, Mining, Mineral Resources and Art cover the full range of the Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources.

With its new exhibition, the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum is rising to the challenge of presenting the subject matter and results of its in-house research activities in an exciting, educational and informative manner, and to attraction the attention of the diverse target groups with a range of communicative approaches. Whether it be in the form of an interactive game, multi-media or hands-on exhibits – the aim is to communicate the content of the permanent exhibition in a sustained way. There is also a children‘s trail that winds its way through the tours, with specially selected exhibits placed at eye level for our youngest visitors.

Around 3000 objects – from the in-house collections of the Montanhistorisches Dokumentationszentrum of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum as well as alongside loan items and brand new exhibits – are presented in a new light. The reduced number of exhibits allows individual, outstanding objects from the previous permanent exhibition is to be viewed in a new light with a new contextualised focus. Apart from having a thematic focus, each of the four tours also has its own specific design concept.

The renovation of the North Wing and the redesign of the Hard Coal and Mining tours were funded by the RAG Foundation as part of the “Glückauf Zukunft!“ Project. The renovation of the South Wing and the redesign of the Mineral Resources and Art tours were funded as part of a joint national and state programme organised by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia. Both projects were further funded by the city of Bochum and the DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH.