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Your Visit

How to get here

By car:
Four minutes from the A46; exit Haan-Ost; follow signs for “Solingen-Zentrum,” then “Kunstmuseum Solingen”; parking at “Dycker Feld.”

By public transport:
Ten minutes by bus no. 683 from Wuppertal-Vohwinkel (train station), stop “Gräfrath.”

Admission and group visits

Adults: €9
Reduced: €4,50
up to 18 years: free admission

School classes and children’s groups for educational museum events:
€2 per person

Private group tour:
€70 (up to 25 people)

Guided Tours

Public Guided Tours

Throughout the year, we welcome you to the museum for various events. Usually on Sunday at 3 p.m., the Center for Persecuted Arts offers public guided tours of the museum, its collections, and its current temporary exhibitions. No reservations are required for the public tour. The tour is included in the price of admission. The meeting point is in the foyer near the ticket counter.

The current dates for public tours can be found on our events page (in german).

Private guided tours

You are also welcome to request a private guided tour. Tours are scheduled to last one hour but can be tailored to meet individual needs. We offer tours in English and other languages.

Contact us at:
info@verfolgte-kuenste.de
or +49 212 23374752
Mon — Fri, 9 am — 12 pm

Accessibility

For wheelchair users and people with limited mobility, there is barrier-free access at the side entrance of the building by arrangement.

Please note that, unfortunately, all access routes are paved with cobblestones. There are ground-level washrooms and a disabled WC in the basement. Parking is available nearby in front of the building. If you are planning to visit us and have any questions about accessibility, arrival and departure, or the layout of the current exhibitions, please contact us at:
+49 212 23374752 (Mon — Fri, 9 am — 12 pm)
or info@verfolgte-kuenste.de

Reduced Admission

  • Students, pupils, and trainees (with ID)
  • Groups of 10 or more
  • Holders of the Solingen Pass or an equivalent document from another city, e.g., Düsselpass
  • Members of the NRW Foundation
  • Holders of the Ehrenamtskarte NRW

Free Admission

  • Visitors 18 and under
  • Holders of a Nansen Pass, proof of arrival, travel document for refugees, residence permit
  • Two accompanying adults for school groups
  • Severely disabled persons (with ID) and one accompanying person
  • Cardholding members of: ICOM, Deutscher Museumsbund, Federal Association of Museum Educators, Association of German Art Historians, Association of Restorers, representatives of the press

Latest news

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.

Marian Ruzamski, Cloth Halls Kraków/Still Life (work on both sides), 1921, oil on canvas, private collection
4/9/26
4/13/26

Excursion

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Encountering the past — art and memory in Krakow and Auschwitz

Study and remembrance trip to Poland

The Center for Persecuted Arts offers from April 9 to 12/13, 2026 on the occasion of the exhibition “Marian Ruzamski. Art of Remembrance” in Krakow a guided study trip to Poland.

Biography “Against the tide? Memoirs 1904—1945”, Solingen 2000. The cover photo shows Änne Wagner in 1934.
4/16/26

Vernissage

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“Änne Wagner” exhibition

Biographical and artistic engagement with a Solingen eyewitness

Students from the Humboldtgymnasium present collages, sketches for graphic novels and texts that were created as a result of dealing with the biography of Änne Wagner.