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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

100 years after his last solo exhibition, and 80 years after his death, the work of artist Marian Ruzamski returns to the public eye. Although his life was overshadowed by war, persecution, and violence, his works tell a different story. His paintings are characterized by a profound humanity, everyday scenes, and an almost floating lightness—as if another, peaceful century were passing before us. The initiator of the exhibition was the great contemporary witness and Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski, who died on February 18, 2025. This exhibition is dedicated to him, who dedicated his life to preventing forgetting and to remembering the victims of Auschwitz.

Temporary Exhibition

“Second Generation – The things I didn't tell my father”, Author & Illustrator: Michel Kichka

The Holocaust in Comics and Graphic Novels

The Graphic Narrative as a Medium of Memory

Since March 9, 2025, the Center for Persecuted Arts shows a cabinet exhibition in the literature collection on comics and graphic novels about the Holocaust, which have developed into an important medium of remembrance culture in recent years. The private collection presented in the exhibition does not claim to be complete, but presents different approaches: from contemporary witness reports and biographical graphic novels to fictional stories that process historical events in artistic form.

Temporary Exhibition

Marian Ruzamski, Self-portrait, Auschwitz concentration camp, 1943 – 1944, pencil on paper, 25 × 20 cm, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
5/8/25
9/14/25

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Marian Ruzamski – The Art of Remembrance

First monographic exhibition of Marian Ruzamski outside Poland

100 years after his last solo exhibition, and 80 years after his death, the work of artist Marian Ruzamski returns to the public eye. Although his life was overshadowed by war, persecution, and violence, his works tell a different story. His paintings are characterized by a profound humanity, everyday scenes, and an almost floating lightness—as if another, peaceful century were passing before us. The initiator of the exhibition was the great contemporary witness and Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski, who died on February 18, 2025. This exhibition is dedicated to him, who dedicated his life to preventing forgetting and to remembering the victims of Auschwitz.

“Second Generation – The things I didn't tell my father”, Author & Illustrator: Michel Kichka
3/9/25
10/12/25

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The Holocaust in Comics and Graphic Novels

The Graphic Narrative as a Medium of Memory

Since March 9, 2025, the Center for Persecuted Arts shows a cabinet exhibition in the literature collection on comics and graphic novels about the Holocaust, which have developed into an important medium of remembrance culture in recent years. The private collection presented in the exhibition does not claim to be complete, but presents different approaches: from contemporary witness reports and biographical graphic novels to fictional stories that process historical events in artistic form.

Marian Ruzamski, Selbstbildnis, Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, 1943 – 1944, Bleistift auf Papier, 25 × 20 cm, Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
8.5.25
14.9.25

Wechselausstellung

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Marian Ruzamski – 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 1945 in Bergen-Belsen verstarb.

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27.4.25

Führung

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Öffentliche Führung „Der Holocaust in Comics und Graphic Novels“

Die zeichnerische Erzählung als Medium der Erinnerung

Unsere Kunstvermittelnden zeigen Ihnen die vielfältigen Facetten des zeichnerischen Erzählens über das Verbrechen des Holocaust.

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.