Ideal world...? Children's life on the Ruhr and Emscher 1900 - 1960
What was the world like for children in the Ruhr area in the past?
In the photo exhibition "Health World...? Children's life in the Ruhr and Emscher 1900 – 1960” in the St. Antony-Hütte in Oberhausen, visitors get an impressive insight into the world of children in the first half of the 20th century in the Ruhr area.
Together with the Essen Ruhr Museum, the LVR Industrial Museum is presenting 50 selected historical photographs from the two large picture archives in the Ruhr area in the special exhibition, which go back to the time of the German Empire. They show the diverse living environments of children in the region around Oberhausen in the first half of the 20th century. Whether at the children's festival, at the fair, playing in the street or bathing in the Rhine-Herne Canal - at first glance, these are pictures of a happy childhood captured by the photographers. The children seem safe and happy. However, if you take a closer look, the photographs reveal that reality was a lot more complex than the ideal world that some of the pictures suggest.
The exhibition can be seen for a whole year until June 16, 2024. The motifs of the exhibition also appear in an accompanying brochure for €7,95.
Further information at www.industriemuseum.lvr.de.
LVR industrial museum
St. Antony Hut
Antoniestrasse 32-34
46119 Oberhausen
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 17 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 18 p.m
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Tel: 02234 / 9921 555-
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Photos: (1) St. Antony-Hütte Oberhausen, Ludger Staudinger photographer (2) © Willy van Heekern / Ruhr Museum photo archive; Essen, September 1952 (3) © GHH factory photograph / LVR Industrial Museum; Oberhausen 1914-1918