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Wuppertaler Str. 160    
42653 Solingen

Öffnungszeiten

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Eintritt

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

Mehr Infos zu freiem und ermäßigtem Eintritt

Öffnungszeiten

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Eintritt

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

Mehr Infos zu freiem und ermäßigtem Eintritt

Das Zentrum für verfolgte Künste ist ein Entdeckungsmuseum und widmet sich ausschließlich Künstler:innen deren Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten und Werke durch die Diktaturen des letzten Jahrhunderts und totalitäre Regime bis in die Gegenwart hinein blockiert, verhindert oder vernichtet wurden. Es ist ein gattungsübergreifendes Museum und erzählt in seiner Kunst- und Literatursammlung von verschollenen, verlorenen, kaum berücksichtigten Kunstwerken, Geschichten und Schicksalen.

Wuppertaler Str. 160    
42653 Solingen

Opening hours

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Admission

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

More information about free and discounted admission

Opening hours

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Admission

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

More information about free and discounted admission

The Center for Persecuted Arts is a museum of discovery, dedicated exclusively to artists whose works and opportunities for development were blocked, prevented, and partially destroyed by the dictatorships of the last century and by totalitarian regimes up to the present day. It is an interdisciplinary museum, and its collection of visual art and literature tells of lost and neglected works of art, stories, and fates.

Aktuelles

Current temporary exhibitions

Exhibition poster “Unlock your heads at last!” Dada as political art between the world wars
5/9/26
9/13/26

Temporary Exhibition

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“Unlock your heads at last!”

Dada as political art between the world wars

Anti-bourgeois, anarchist, and pacifist, Dada, with its sharp eye and biting satire, offered social criticism, questioning prevailing values ​​as well as political and social conditions and dynamics, especially those that had led to the catastrophe of the First World War. To mark its 110th anniversary, “Open your minds at last!” celebrates the Dada art movement and demonstrates the continued relevance of its political engagement.

Georg Netzband, Goebbels, Drawing, 1939, Gerhard Schneider Collection
5/12/26
6/12/26

Wechselausstellung

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"Freedom in Word, Truth in Image"

Exhibition on Press Freedom in Moscow

On the occasion of International Press Freedom Day, the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts presents the exhibition "Freedom in Word, Truth in Image" at the German Embassy in Moscow.

Temporary Exhibition

Exhibition poster “Unlock your heads at last!” Dada as political art between the world wars

“Unlock your heads at last!”

Dada as political art between the world wars

Anti-bourgeois, anarchist, and pacifist, Dada, with its sharp eye and biting satire, offered social criticism, questioning prevailing values ​​as well as political and social conditions and dynamics, especially those that had led to the catastrophe of the First World War. To mark its 110th anniversary, “Unlock your heads at last!” celebrates the Dada art movement and demonstrates the continued relevance of its political engagement.

Wechselausstellung

Georg Netzband, Goebbels, Drawing, 1939, Gerhard Schneider Collection

"Freedom in Word, Truth in Image"

Exhibition on Press Freedom in Moscow

On the occasion of International Press Freedom Day, the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts presents the exhibition "Freedom in Word, Truth in Image" at the German Embassy in Moscow. Featuring books, images, and documents from the museum's collection, the exhibition looks back at the 19th century and the catastrophes of the 20th century.

Future temporary exhibitions

Temporary Exhibition

Landscape on Hanna Melnykova's path from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova

Lifelines. Across borders

An art project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, Ukrainian photo artist Hanna Melnykova emigrated from Germany to Ukraine and documented her “performative walk” photographically. The exhibition shows her engagement with migration, resilience, and cultural ties in the current geopolitical landscape. The symbolic meaning of this walk: It represents life itself. The route set for the project illustrates the borders between nations and embodies the gap between past and future as well as personal and collective transformation.

Landscape on Hanna Melnykova's path from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova
10/8/26
11/8/26

Temporary Exhibition

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Lifelines. Across borders

An art project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, photo artist Hanna Melnykova emigrated from Germany to Ukraine. The Museum Center for Persecuted Arts is showing the photographic documentation of their performative walk.

Events

Guest Talk

Rocko Schamoni, photo: David Köngismann

Rocko Schamoni in conversation

about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor in art

Rocko Schamoni talks to us on the occasion of the exhibition “Unlock your head at last! — Dada as political art between the World Wars” about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor as a means of style and struggle in art.

Guided Tours

Vernissage „Unlock your heads at last!“, Photo: Daniela Tobias/Center for Persecuted Arts

Public guided tour “Unlock your heads at last!”

Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars

During our public Sunday tour, our art educators will guide you through the exhibition „Unlock your heads at last!“ Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars. The Dadaists employed a wide variety of styles, producing literature, poetry, stage plays, paintings, graphic art, collages, and photographs. Yet the political dimension serves as a central common thread—running through the movement’s works like a leitmotif—and finds expression in the most diverse and unexpected ways.

5/31/26

Guest Talk

:

Rocko Schamoni in conversation

about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor in art

Rocko Schamoni talks to us on the occasion of the exhibition “Unlock your head at last! — Dada as political art between the World Wars” about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor

5/31/26

Guided Tours

:

Public guided tour “Unlock your heads at last!”

Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars

During our public Sunday tour, our art educators will guide you through the exhibition „Unlock your heads at last!“ Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars.

Permanent exhibition

In the permanent exhibition of the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts, you can discover works of art, stories, and fates from the first half of the last century that were either lost, thought to be lost, or largely ignored.

Museum für verfolgte Künste

More about the mission statement and the history of the Center for Persecuted Arts Museum.

Learn more about the Civic Foundation for Persecuted Arts and the Gerhard Schneider art collection.

More about the Promotional Society that was founded to support and enrich our program.

Latest news

Landscape on Hanna Melnykova's path from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova
10/8/26
11/8/26

Temporary Exhibition

:

Lifelines. Across borders

An art project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, photo artist Hanna Melnykova emigrated from Germany to Ukraine. The Museum Center for Persecuted Arts is showing the photographic documentation of their performative walk.

Rocko Schamoni, photo: David Köngismann
5/31/26

Guest Talk

:

Rocko Schamoni in conversation

about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor in art

Rocko Schamoni talks to us on the occasion of the exhibition “Unlock your head at last! — Dada as political art between the World Wars” about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor

Vernissage „Unlock your heads at last!“, Photo: Daniela Tobias/Center for Persecuted Arts
5/31/26

Guided Tours

:

Public guided tour “Unlock your heads at last!”

Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars

During our public Sunday tour, our art educators will guide you through the exhibition „Unlock your heads at last!“ Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars.

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