A Museum for everyone

Our clever audio guide now offers all our visitors the option of navigating through our exhibition rooms for themselves. With the help of this small, technical aid, every visitor is able to keep track of things and never miss out on any fascinating information – since the voice in one’s ear always gives very clear guidance. Moreover, our audio guides are simple to use and very light to handle since they only have a weight of 100 grams.

Just key in the corresponding room number and the appliance will reveal the most important background information at the push of a button. In this way our visitors can decide for themselves which exhibit they would like to find out more about and how they would like to access and discover the world of X-rays. The audio guides have programmes for adults and children as well as special options for the visually impaired. And for all those interested persons from around the world, we offer an English version besides the German one. 50 audio guides are available at our front desk for Museum visitors – they can be borrowed free of charge, but you will be asked to leave a deposit. Since the number of audio guides is limited we would ask visitors in larger groups to make a corresponding booking in advance.

Is there a project day coming up at school, but the project is missing? And you don’t fancy going to the botanical gardens or the zoo yet again? We can offer an attractive alternative for school excursions: the German Röntgen Museum.

For all school groups that are eager to learn something new, we offer age-appropriate and fascinating guided tours through our permanent exhibition. This pedagogical offer is not only recommendable for all classes from the primary school to secondary school, it is also fitting for the very young researchers of playschool or pre-school age. To make sure that everything is adequately explained and that all questions can be answered, some 60 minutes should be scheduled for such a guided tour.

And for those that still have some time on their hands afterwards, they can continue along into our children’s Röntgen laboratory directly afterwards. Here, the pupils can attend over a 2-3-hour period various workshops in the so-called RöLab, events that offer pupils the possibility of carrying out fascinating experiments and of setting themselves interactive learning tasks. This enables our young guests to have a taste of laboratory life and to perhaps go home with a new career objective in mind.

The German Röntgen Museum is much more than just a Museum for learning and generating amazement. It is a Museum for all discoverers and go-ahead people that themselves want to have a share in the world of science. True to the motto: “don’t just stand on the sidelines, but get into the thick of things”, we would particularly like to invite our young visitors to become researchers for themselves.

And which place could be better to do this than our Röntgen laboratory?
The Röntgen laboratory for school pupils – abbreviated RöLab – is the ideal facility to introduce schoolchildren to the fundamentals of radiation and its application within a medical and technical context. Here, everyone can become a scientist and for once feel like the great Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen once did. Of course, the young researchers will be supported in this by our skilled Museum staff. Exciting experiments are prepared together, experiments that are subsequently carried out by the schoolchildren for themselves. In this way they acquire some intriguing knowledge, and this in an interactive manner.

The tasks and assignments come from the areas of X-ray physics, radioactivity, medical science and material testing. We believe this to be a learning experience that the children will not forget so quickly.

The German Röntgen Museum does not only preoccupy itself with the discoveries of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, but also on their impact on the present and our future. Röntgen’s research was revolutionary. And in order to spread the idea of Röntgen and his work and to pass on our knowledge to others, we offer specialised courses. Our skilled scientific staff have been specifically trained with this in mind. In cooperation with the Society for Medicine, Technology and Training at the German Röntgen Museum e.V. (GMTF), these members of the team offer radiation protection courses. The courses are in accordance with §18a of the German X-ray Regulation and §30 of the Radiation Protection Ordinance. Further, we are qualified to offer sonography courses – which take place regularly. We are able to implement these courses thanks to the support of the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine.

Anyone interested in taking part in one of these courses should simply contact the Museum’s office staff. They will provide enquirers with further information regarding dates, registration and costs. We also like to teach entire groups and can arrange for specially scheduled times whenever this may be necessary. In any case: please let us know as soon as possible.

Together, we honour and hold in high esteem Rontgen’s work and support scientific advances.