page_title: Bochum
section_title: Museums
hierarchical_section_title: Bochum / Society and culture / Museums
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bergbaumuseum in Bochum zur blauen Stunde English: Museum of mining (Bergbaumuseum) in Bochum at blue hour Português: Museu Alemão da Mineração (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum) em Bochum, no crepúsculo. Bosanski: Muzej rudarstva (Bergbaumuseum) u Bochumu u sumrak. Čeština: Muzeum hornictví (Bergbaumuseum) za soumraku ve městě Bochum, Severní Porýní-Vestfálsko, Německo. Español: Museo de la minería (Bergbaumuseum) en Bochum en la hora azul. Magyar: A Bányászati Múzeum Bochumban Italiano: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum ("Museo minierario tedesco") a Bochum in Germania fotografato all'ora blu. 한국어: 블루아워의 보훔 광산 박물관 (Bergbaumuseum). Nederlands: Het Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum in de Duitse plaats Bochum gedurende het blauwe uur.
context_page_description: Bochum is the sixth largest city of the most populous German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg, and its 364,920 inhabitants make it the 16th largest city of Germany. On the Ruhr Heights hill chain, between the rivers Ruhr to the south and Emscher to the north, it is the second largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, and the fourth largest city of the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. It lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, and belongs to the region of Arnsberg. It is surrounded by the cities of Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten, Hattingen, Essen and Gelsenkirchen. Bochum is the sixth largest and one of the southernmost cities in the Low German dialect area. There are nine institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the Ruhr University Bochum, one of the ten largest universities in Germany, and the Bochum University of Applied Sciences.
context_section_description: The Bergbaumuseum is a museum about mining technology, complete with pithead tower.
  Railway Museum and Station Dahlhausen in the borough of Dahlhausen. Dr.-C.-Otto-Straße 191
  Zeiss Planetarium
  At the city's border with Herne-(Röhlinghausen), is the former mine Zeche Hannover with the Malakow Tower and engine hall. There is a steam-powered winding engine, which is operated at events.
  Zeche Knirps ("Small Boy Mine") located on the ground of Mine Hannover. It gives children the opportunity to experience the processes in a mine.
  Museum of local history Helf's Farm, Address: In den Höfen 37
  Farmhouse Museum located on the grounds of moated Kemnade Castle
  Museum of historic medical tools in the Malokos-Tower of former Mine Julius-Philipp from 1875. Address: Malakowturm, Markstraße 258a, 44799 Bochum
  School Museum, Cruismannstraße 2, 44807 Bochum
  Telefonmuseum, Karl-Lange-Str. 17
  Kunstmuseum Bochum, Kortumstraße 147, 44787 Bochum
caption: Bergbaumuseum Bochum
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