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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 Exhibitions

Temporary Exhibition

Exhibition poster "Open your minds at last!" Dada as political art between the world wars

"Open your minds at last!"

Dada as political art between the world wars

Anti-bourgeois, anarchist, and pacifist, Dada, with its sharp eye and biting satire, offered social criticism, questioning prevailing values ​​as well as political and social conditions and dynamics, especially those that had led to the catastrophe of the First World War. To mark its 110th anniversary, “Open your minds at last!” celebrates the Dada art movement and demonstrates the continued relevance of its political engagement.

Temporary Exhibitions

Exhibition poster "Open your minds at last!" Dada as political art between the world wars
5/9/26
9/13/26

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"Open your minds at last!"

Dada as political art between the world wars

Anti-bourgeois, anarchist, and pacifist, Dada, with its sharp eye and biting satire, offered social criticism, questioning prevailing values ​​as well as political and social conditions and dynamics, especially those that had led to the catastrophe of the First World War. To mark its 110th anniversary, “Open your minds at last!” celebrates the Dada art movement and demonstrates the continued relevance of its political engagement.

Future Temporary Exhibitions

Temporary Exhibition

Landscape along Hanna Melnykova's journey from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova

Lifelines. Walking across borders

An arts project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, Ukrainian photographic artist Hanna Melnykova walked from Germany to Ukraine, documenting her "performative walk" through photography. The exhibition shows her artistic exploration of migration, resilience, cultural connection within the current geopolitical landscape. The symbolic meaning of this walk: representing life itself. The route mapped for the project illustrates borders between nations, embodying the divide between past and future, as well as personal and collective transformation.

Landscape along Hanna Melnykova's journey from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova
10/8/26
11/8/26

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Lifelines. Walking across borders

An arts project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, Ukrainian photographic artist Hanna Melnykova walked from Germany to Ukraine, documenting her "performative walk" through photography. The exhibition shows her artistic exploration of migration, resilience, cultural connection within the current geopolitical landscape. The symbolic meaning of this walk: representing life itself. The route mapped for the project illustrates borders between nations, embodying the divide between past and future, as well as personal and collective transformation.

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.