Haus des Karnevals
Haus des Karnevals stands in Düsseldorf’s historic old town as a museum devoted to the city’s carnival tradition. Three floors gather uniforms, medals, books, certificates, and photographs from more than sixty years. Its classic façade uses natural stone details, while a baroque wooden staircase leads through a building with roots reaching 1632.
The museum has occupied the building since 15 January 2005, after renovations followed a 1998 lease to the Comitee Düsseldorfer Carneval. The building also houses the organisation’s headquarters. A media archive, created with Westdeutscher Rundfunk, preserves film recordings of Rosenmontag parades alongside multimedia displays and carnival mottos spanning over seventy years. Princely couples, programme booklets, and carnival hats add faces and objects to that story.
Behind the museum, Bert Gerresheim’s Hoppeditz monument has stood since 2008. The protected building became a listed historic monument in 1985, giving the carnival collection an architectural setting with its own documented past.
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