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The permanent exhibition on the upper floor will be accessible again starting October 14, 2026. The literature exhibition on the ground floor is closed until further notice due to water damage in the storage area.

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

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

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.

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Future temporary exhibitions

Wechselausstellung

Fritz Schaefler, Village Characters, 1940s, oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard and plywood, 49.8 x 39.9 cm © VAN HAM Art Estate: Fritz Schaefler

Lines of Destiny

The painter Fritz Schaefler and his collector Joseph Heymann

The exhibition explores the fractured biographies of two men: the Expressionist painter and graphic artist Fritz Schaefler (1888-1954) and the Rheinland Jewish industrialist and art collector Joseph Heymann (1887-1954). It recounts their shared interests and common ground, such as their love for the city of Cologne, Carnival, and their connection to the Bergisches Land region, and traces, through letters and documents, the fate of the Heymann art collection until its return to Germany.

Fritz Schaefler, Village Characters, 1940s, oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard and plywood, 49.8 x 39.9 cm © VAN HAM Art Estate: Fritz Schaefler
11/26/26
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2/14/27

Wechselausstellung

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Lines of Destiny

The painter Fritz Schaefler and his collector Joseph Heymann

The exhibition explores the fractured biographies of two men: the Expressionist painter and graphic artist Fritz Schaefler (1888-1954) and the Rheinland Jewish industrialist and art collector Joseph Heymann (1887-1954).

Events

Führung

Büste Joachim Ringelnatz' von Renée Sintenis, Foto: Daniela Tobias © Bürgerstiftung für verfolgte Künste – Else-Lasker-Schüler-Zentrum – Kunstsammlung Gerhard Schneider

Öffentliche Sonntagsführung in der Dauerausstellung

Eine Entdeckungsreise durch unsere Sammlung

Kennen Sie die Büste von Joachim Ringelnatz, die die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis geschaffen hat? Unsere Kunstvermittelnden bringen Ihnen Künstler:innen näher, die über die letzten Jahrzehnte in Vergessenheit geraten sind – aber warum? Ihre Biografien sind von Verfolgung unterschiedlichster Art geprägt und ihre Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten und künstlerischen Werke wurden durch die Diktaturen des letzten Jahrhunderts und totalitäre Regime blockiert, verhindert und teils vernichtet.

colloquy

Götz Aly. photo: Susanne Schleyer

How could that happen?

Cultural Policy Salon with Götz Aly

Götz Aly is one of the best-known authors on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust — in his latest book, he asks the central question: How could this happen? The historian and journalist worked for, among others, the” taz “, the” Berliner Zeitung “and as a visiting professor and has received numerous awards.

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10/25/26
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Führung

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Öffentliche Sonntagsführung in der Dauerausstellung

Eine Entdeckungsreise durch unsere Sammlung

Im Zentrum für verfolgte Künste können Sie Künstler:innen entdecken, die über die letzten Jahrzehnte in Vergessenheit geraten sind.

10/27/26
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colloquy

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How could that happen?

Cultural Policy Salon with Götz Aly

Götz Aly is one of the most famous authors on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust. Cultural Policy Salon at the Center for Persecuted Arts with Andreas Schäfer.

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.

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