GUIDED TOURS AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS

Group offers GUIDED TOUR BOOKINGS Groups may book general tours or tours on specifi c subjects: religious festivals, religious diversity, pilgrimage, Groups up to �� people (adults) Cardinal von Galen, Christmas, special exhibitions. € 40 plus admission (60 mins.) or € 55 plus admission (90 mins.) Special tours of the annual Crib Exhibition are also available for people with special needs, e.g. the blind and Children and under ��s visually impaired, deaf and hearing-impaired as well as € 30 (60 mins.) or € 40 (90 mins.) people with dementia. The museum is barrier-free. For more information please go to: OPENING TIMES www.museum-religio.de Programmes for Schools and Nurseries museum@.de HOW TO FIND US daily 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., closed Mondays Guided tours and educational events concentrating on +49 (0)2504-93120 By car ADMISSION the permanent exhibition can be arranged for school- MEETING Parking spaces are available by the River . children of all ages as well as nursery groups. These are Adults: € 5, reduced € 4* especially relevant for the subjects History, Art, Ethics and Local transport Children and under ��s: admission free Religious Studies. from Münster central station: Regional train RB 67 to PLACE FOR and Bielefeld regional bus lines R11, R13 Members of pilgrimage groups: € 2.50 from Bielefeld central station: *Reduced price available for groups of 12 or more, students

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g e [email protected] STATIONw e s n a L H a e p O ß p ra rk t e o s n t g in b t we e r e rg t i n be S n en k Funding authorities: Gut G Emstor ra feld be Baß nst raß eg e District of Warendorf, Diocese of Münster, City of Telgte, -W ler ep -K es nn or a teint Joh S City of Münster, Münster Chamber of Trade Thomas Pfl aum/tompfl aum.com; image archive RE aum/tompfl Thomas Pfl PHOTOS: Layout and typesetting: www.ulrich-hermanns.de WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHERE ARE WE GOING TO? WHAT IS THE SENSE AND PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES? HOW CAN WE FIND TRUE HAPPINESS...? EVERY RELIGION IS LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO THESE EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS. CELEBRATIONS DURING THE YEAR NEW BUILDING 2ND FLOOR CARDINAL VON GALEN TABLE OF RELIGIONS RELíGIO Museum, located in the idyllic old of Telgte, Even now, the year is still organised around religious In 1933, Clemens August Graf von Galen was ordained as NEW BUILDING GROUND FLOOR invites you to explore the religious lives of people in the festivals. Celebrating together strengthens the sense Bishop of Münster. Von Galen gained more widespread past and present. The exhibition covers a total space of Today‘s world is one of great religious diversity. The major of community among people. A central focus of the renown for his three sermons delivered in 1941 where he 1,500 m² and offers believers and non-believers a wealth world religions are symbolised through striking objects exhibition is the Christian Christmas. This festival is openly criticised the annihilation policy of the National of information from Bronze Age burial objects through to placed in the middle of the table with various aspects of celebrated nearly everywhere in the world today, as the Socialists. These also earned him his nickname as the PILGRIMAGES AND PILGRIMS the religious diversity of the present. Dialogue between modern spirituality grouped around them. At our media historical, contemporary and international nativity scenes “Lion of Münster“. The exhibition presents personal OLD BUILDING 1ST FLOOR religions plays an equally important role as the Christian stations you can meet people of many different religions from the museum‘s huge collection demonstrate. items as well as the texts of these sermons, giving an perspective, with all its many facets. ready to share their personal impressions of their religion Telgte is a traditional place of pilgrimage dedicated to the insight into the life of the later Cardinal. with you. Virgin Mary. Some hundred thousand pilgrims come here The museum is also architecturally very interesting as it is THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE OF WESTPHALIA every year to worship the Pietà which dates from around housed in an ensemble of buildings that has evolved over OLD BUILDING GROUND FLOOR SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 1370. In 1947, a group of displaced persons from the many years. The old inglenook room evokes a particularly CELEBRATIONS DURING THE COURSE OF LIFE Westphalia is today still predominantly Christian. After the County of Glatz in Silesia also chose Telgte as their new RELíGIO also holds regular special exhibitions on various unique atmosphere. The clear, linear extension designed NEW BUILDING 1ST FLOOR Reformation individual religious groups developed of either place of pilgrimage and still come together here every year. topics. The annual exhibition of cribs with over 130 by the master cathedral architect Dominikus Böhm from Every religion has its own special celebrations. The rituals a Roman Catholic or Protestant confession. Take a journey In 2015, a part of the Camino de Santiago (Way of Saint contemporary nativity scenes is a fi rmly established event. Cologne is a listed building. A tour of the permanent involved mark new stages of life, such as christenings, through Westphalia and discover the many different James) was consecrated in Telgte. The museum explains Information about this and all other special exhibitions can exhibition begins in the modern building designed by the confi rmations, Bar Mitzwa, weddings and funerals. In the forms of religious practice; for example the Catholic Easter the signifi cance of pilgrims and the history of the Telgte be found on our website. internationally renowned architect Josef Paul Kleihues. exhibition, each new stage of life is entered through a door. customs in Sauerland, the revivalist movement in Minden pilgrimage through exceptional and unusual objects. Ravensberg or the religious plurality of the Ruhr region. The exhibition also includes a wealth of documents and items that bear witness to the eventful history of the Westphalian Jews which began in the 11th century.

The Telgte Lenten Cloth (Hungertuch) dating from 1623 – a very signifi cant testimony to the 30-Year War – is one of the most important Lenten cloths in . 33 squares with pictures created using the fi let lace technique show the story of Christ‘s Passion and other biblical scenes.