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The museum will be closed from December 23, 2024 to January 1, 2025. Special opening day on Saturday, December 28, 2024 from 1 p.m., public tour at 5 p.m., Hanukkah celebration at 6.30 p.m.

Wuppertaler Str. 160    
42653 Solingen

Opening hours

Tuesday - Sunday,
10 am - 5 pm

Admission

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

More info on free and reduced admission

Opening hours

Tuesday - Sunday,
10 am - 5 pm

Admission

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

More info on free and reduced 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.

Temporary Exhibition

Temporary Exhibition

Marian Ruzamski, Self-portrait, Auschwitz concentration camp, 1943 – 1944, pencil on paper, 25 × 20 cm, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Marian Ruzamski – The Art of Remembrance

First monographic exhibition of Marian Ruzamski outside Poland

The idea for the exhibition "The Art of Remembrance" came from Marian Turski, a Polish journalist and historian of Jewish origin. He was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Turski is chairman of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and chairman of the International Auschwitz Committee. The artist Marian Ruzamski was deported to Auschwitz during the Second World War and later died in the Bergen-Belsen camp. His impressive portraits from Auschwitz have already been shown several times. Now his entire work is to be made accessible in Germany for the first time. It will show how the artist resisted destruction and how the power of art can be an expression of hope and resistance, even in the darkest times.

Temporary Exhibition

Marian Ruzamski, Self-portrait, Auschwitz concentration camp, 1943 – 1944, pencil on paper, 25 × 20 cm, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
4/29/25
9/14/25

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Marian Ruzamski – The Art of Remembrance

First monographic exhibition of Marian Ruzamski outside Poland

The idea for the exhibition "The Art of Remembrance" came from Marian Turski, a Polish journalist and historian of Jewish origin. He was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Turski is chairman of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and chairman of the International Auschwitz Committee. The artist Marian Ruzamski was deported to Auschwitz during the Second World War and later died in the Bergen-Belsen camp. His impressive portraits from Auschwitz have already been shown several times. Now his entire work is to be made accessible in Germany for the first time. It will show how the artist resisted destruction and how the power of art can be an expression of hope and resistance, even in the darkest times.

Marian Ruzamski, Selbstbildnis, Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, 1943 – 1944, Bleistift auf Papier, 25 × 20 cm, Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
29.4.25
14.9.25

Wechselausstellung

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Marian Ruzamki – Kunst der Erinnerung

Erste monografische Ausstellung Marian Ruzamskis außerhalb Polens

Das Zentrum für verfolgte Künste zeigt erstmals in Deutschland das gesamte Werk von Marian Ruzamski, der 1943 nach Auschwitz verschleppt wurde und später in Bergen-Belsen verstarb.

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28.12.24

Lichterfest

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Solingen feiert Chanukka

Sonderöffnungstag in den Weihnachtsferien

Die Stadt Solingen lädt gemeinsam mit der Jüdischen Kultusgemeinde zum traditionellen Lichterfest Chanukka ein, das zum ersten Mal im Zentrum für verfolgte Künste stattfindet.

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.

Find out 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.