The Paderborn City Museum in the heart of the city, close to the Paderquell area and the cathedral, explores the historical dimension of the city's identity, which is reflected in images, buildings, historical collections and memories.
In addition to numerous models, media and audio stations that bring a past cityscape back to life, the "object store", which displays the diversity of the cultural-historical collections of the city of Paderborn and others, is the museum's central exhibition space. Unique to the museum location is the cloister and garden of the Abdinghof monastery founded by Bishop Meinwerk in 1015/16. In the "Open Foyer", the city museum is dedicated to topics of the urban present and future. In addition to lectures, concerts and theater performances, current artistic positions and trends are shown here in special exhibitions. Cultural-historical exhibitions also have their place here. In the "City Laboratory", adults, children and young people can become researchers of the city's 1200-year history. Regular public tours round off the offer.
Good to know
Openings
2nd Christmas Day 10am-6pm
New Year's Day 1-6pm, Easter Monday 10am-6pm
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, Good Friday closed
Price info
reduced: 2,00 Euro per person
Children up to 12 years free of charge
Groups of 6 or more: 1.50 euros per person
School classes have free admission
Eligibility
Bad Weather Offer
Suitable for any weather
for Groups
for Class
for families
for individual guests
Suitable for the Elderly
Directions & Parking facilities
Take the A 33 freeway to the Pad.-Zentrum or Pad.-Schloß Neuhaus exit; then head towards Paderborn city center. Stay on the inner ring road (Innenstadtring) in the direction of PaderHalle or Maspernplatz (if necessary, follow the parking guidance system). Turn into Maspernplatz via Hathumarstraße.
Parking:
Parking for cars is available at Maspernplatz on the edge of Paderborn city center (destination address for the navigation system: Heiersmauer 45, 33098 Paderborn). There are usually plenty of parking spaces there. Tip: Buy a reasonably priced day ticket!
An alternative is the Neuhäuser Tor parking garage, which you will pass on the way to Maspernplatz as described above.
Information on other parking options in the city center and tariffs: www.asp-paderborn.de.
By public transportation:
Take the city bus lines (PaderSprinter) 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 (PaderSprinter) to the "Rathausplatz" stop.
For more information on how to get there by city bus, visit www.padersprinter.de or call 05251 6997222.
