150 years Hügel - With many highlights through the year 2023

The Krupp Foundation is celebrating the anniversary year of Villa Hügel with an extensive program and many premieres. On February 10th, a big ceremony marked the symbolic starting signal for the anniversary year of Villa Hügel and the park. In this festive setting, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier opened the transmedia real-time installation "Kontrast".

The installation is an audiovisual composition that envelops Villa Hügel for six weeks. On the occasion of the anniversary, the Krupp Foundation is taking up the idea of ​​transformation and inviting visitors to artistic highlights and exclusive series of events throughout the year, which invite lively exchange and participation. To this end, the foundation not only opens doors to previously closed rooms in the villa, but also ensures a digital visitor experience with an augmented reality app. The specially developed app is intended, for example, to enable guests to experience the previous room furnishings virtually or to make former stables visible again. The app also offers different tours.

The annual program is supplemented by numerous events. The former living room of the Krupp family becomes a cinema on Fridays in September, and music fans get their money's worth at open-air concerts by the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra and the Folkwang Jazz Orchestra. Guests here include Helge Schneider.

More information about the anniversary, the program and Villa Hügel can be found at https://www.krupp-stiftung.de and https://www.villahuegel.de.

The Villa Hill is an anchor point on the industrial heritage route.