Change of Perspective – App

Experience the stories of the Ruhr area!

For example, accompany a coal driver, a mining official or a housewife of the time and learn more about life in the days of early mining in the Ruhr or the heyday of industrialization. The virtual tour guide Werner Kamininski leads you through the adventure rooms and provides you with background information.

Experience the history of the Ruhr area with the "Change of Perspective" app: choose your adventure area and listen to the personal story of the working and everyday life of our fictitious protagonists at selected locations along the route. The virtual tour guide Werner Kamininski leads you through the adventure rooms and provides you with background information.

Each experience area focuses on a specific time frame in the history of the Ruhr area, so that you can learn more about the worries and hopes, problems and special features here.

You can download “Change of Perspective” free of charge from Google Play and the App Store. In order to be able to use the offer independently of the network connection and to keep the data volume as low as possible on the go, you can download the data for each experience room. If you want to use online mode, you must activate online use for "Content" and "Map" in the app settings. At the starting point of a route, tablets with the app are available in the visitor or information center of the respective anchor point. They can be borrowed for a deposit.