Change, redesign, progress: topics that are of enormous importance in Münsterland. Because a company's or business's ability to innovate determines its future - and this has long since reached the companies and employees in Münsterland.
They see social changes such as the digital transformation as an opportunity for improvement. Innovations are often driven by the management and developed together with the customer based on the specific problem or need.
In doing so, they recognise the opportunities of digitalisation and implement them - for new products and business models, for opening up new markets, for more efficiency in work processes and for more varied and interesting fields of work.
You can find some exciting examples of this innovative power in our Innovation Stories. In them, companies report on their successes through new developments - which have often come about through cooperation with other players in Münsterland.
How can technological developments be recognised and used more quickly and comprehensively in Münsterland? This question is becoming increasingly important, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. To make this search for new technologies as simple and cost-saving as possible, it makes sense to involve regional experts and quickly exchange information on these topics.
The Enabling Networks Münsterland project has developed various measures in the field of technology scouting to support you in your search for new technologies. This creates special technology knowledge that companies, research institutions and competence centres can use to work even better. Take advantage of this expertise and find out more about technology scouting in Münsterland.
Would you like to know in which areas the Münsterland is particularly active? Then click through the innovation competence fields. You can find out more about innovation in our FAQs.
Münsterland is not only innovative, but also a region of the future. For example, companies from future-oriented sectors such as IT and mechanical engineering are strongly represented here.
Innovations are the engine of our economy. Without them, there is no progress. That is why innovative achievements deserve special attention, appreciation and support. The Münsterland Innovation Award has been presented every two years to companies, universities and institutions in Münsterland since 1993. Novel developments that convince through their sustainability, simplify and accelerate processes in industry or advance digitalisation have enthused both the jury and the public in recent years. Find out here which inspiring innovations have won the competition so far.
But companies, universities and institutions are also in constant exchange in their everyday work and exchange ideas with each other in networks or at events such as the Innovation Forum.
We live in spaces that we shape according to our own ideas. Our everyday life leaves traces that tell of our habits. Experiences that are important to us not only become an essential part of our memory, they also leave a decisive imprint on the architecture that surrounds us. These robust shells promise protection and localisation, but can also create a feeling of confinement. We grow together with spaces - they in turn become an imprint of our personality. Conversely, rooms shape our existence depending on their construction and location. But how can these many interlockings between people and their built environment be made visible and tangible?
RÄUME HAUTNAH brings together artistic positions in MAIN SPACE that do not view the spheres of people and space independently of each other, but rather understand them in complex intertwining processes. The selected works depict the fusion of man and space in a variety of ways: as a physical experience, emotional dependency or instinctive need for protection. By means of sophisticated references between space, textiles, body and skin, the artists refer to the metaphor of architecture as the "third skin" of human beings and thus emphasise their connection to it. They work with technical processes, some of which they have developed themselves, as well as with established media, including photography, film, weaving and installation.
Artists
Absalon, Shannon Bool, Heidi Bucher, Eileen Gray, Do Ho Suh, Mary Mattingly, Tracey Snelling, Francesca Woodman
Reguläre Öffnungszeiten:
mittwochs bis sonntags von 11 bis 17 Uhr |
jeder erste Donnerstag im Monat von 11 bis 21 Uhr |
montags und dienstags geschlossen
Geöffnet an folgenden Feiertagen:
Ostermontag (01.04.2024), Christi Himmelfahrt (09.05.2024), Pfingstsonntag (19.05.2024), 2. Weihnachtstag (26.12.2024)
Pro Person € 9, ermäßigt € 6 (Kombiticket für alle Ausstellungen)
Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.
Ermäßigung für: Studierende, Auszubildende, Teilnehmer*innen Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr, Bundesfreiwilligendienstleistende, Menschen mit Behinderung und deren jeweilige Begleitperson, jeweils nach Vorlage des entsprechenden Nachweises.
The Draiflessen Collection contains around one hundred architectural models of C&A department stores. Most of these models were created by the architectural firm Nattler in Essen, formerly E. A. Gärtner/R. Stiens. In the course of the decades-long collaboration between C&A and the Essen office, over 170 department stores have been designed and built since the 1950s, some of which have been remodelled several times and some of which have already been converted or demolished. In addition to this exceptionally extensive collection of models, our company archive also has numerous photographs and documents relating to the respective stores.
This allows us to tell many stories about the buildings that have characterised German city centres for generations. Above all, however, the architectural models themselves are fascinating miniature worlds with their unique character. While they were originally a means of visualising a possible, built future, they are now presented in DAS Forum as representatives and historical testimonies to a state of construction that no longer exists.
Reguläre Öffnungszeiten:
mittwochs bis sonntags von 11 bis 17 Uhr |
jeder erste Donnerstag im Monat von 11 bis 21 Uhr |
montags und dienstags geschlossen
Geöffnet an folgenden Feiertagen:
Ostermontag (01.04.2024), Christi Himmelfahrt (09.05.2024), Pfingstsonntag (19.05.2024), 2. Weihnachtstag (26.12.2024)
Pro Person € 9, ermäßigt € 6 (Kombiticket für alle Ausstellungen)
Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.
Ermäßigung für: Studierende, Auszubildende, Teilnehmer*innen Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr, Bundesfreiwilligendienstleistende, Menschen mit Behinderung und deren jeweilige Begleitperson, jeweils nach Vorlage des entsprechenden Nachweises.
In early modern European culture, festivals were not only celebrated but also staged. From sacred to profane, courtly to urban - depending on the occasion, each era organised its own public festivities. Ephemeral, i.e. temporary, festive architecture was an indispensable part of these splendidly staged coronations, anniversaries, victory celebrations, state visits, weddings or birthdays. Specially designed and built for each occasion, the display stands and grandstands transformed the familiar public space, amazed the public and made them forget their everyday lives.
The cabinet exhibition in the Study Hall takes a look at these ephemeral elements that adorned the urban space. The impressive buildings, designed by renowned artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Romeyn de Hooghe, bear witness to the desire to celebrate special moments and demonstrate political power at the same time. The exhibition presents a trenchant selection from the festival books preserved in the Liberna Collection, with each of these works telling the story of the respective festive moment and the architecture designed specifically for it.
Just like the moment of celebration itself, the festival architecture was short-lived. From the 15th century onwards, the monuments, which were not built to last forever, were therefore recorded in festival descriptions in words and pictures in order to preserve the unique atmosphere of these events for posterity. The mostly richly illustrated documentations are as diverse as the festivals themselves. Thanks to the books, the cabinet exhibition uses AR glasses and an interactive media installation to bring the monuments back to life.
This creates a unique opportunity to revive the architecture of the early modern period not only through the lens of the festival books on display, but also virtually. AR and projector technology provide a fascinating insight into the monumentality of the festival culture.
Reguläre Öffnungszeiten:
mittwochs bis sonntags von 11 bis 17 Uhr |
jeder erste Donnerstag im Monat von 11 bis 21 Uhr |
montags und dienstags geschlossen
Geöffnet an folgenden Feiertagen:
Ostermontag (01.04.2024), Christi Himmelfahrt (09.05.2024), Pfingstsonntag (19.05.2024), 2. Weihnachtstag (26.12.2024)
Pro Person € 9, ermäßigt € 6 (Kombiticket für alle Ausstellungen)
Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren haben freien Eintritt.
Ermäßigung für: Studierende, Auszubildende, Teilnehmer*innen Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr, Bundesfreiwilligendienstleistende, Menschen mit Behinderung und deren jeweilige Begleitperson, jeweils nach Vorlage des entsprechenden Nachweises.
Participation programme at Remigius Bücherei Borken - At MedienECK, young visitors (aged 8-12) can actively and creatively get to know and try out exciting media snacks from the fields of film, photography, coding, making and robotics. Free registration with name and age details at 3eck@borken.de or by telephone on 02861 / 939 665. In cooperation with the Remigius Library Borken.
Would you like to digitalise your business processes, invest in IT security or research a new product and bring it to market? And would you like to access publicly available financial support, but still can't quite find your way through the funding jungle?
Then register for the IHK expert consultation day. Funding expert Dr. Kai Pflanz from NRW.BANK's Business Development Advisory Centre will answer questions about grant funding for innovation and digitalisation projects in a 30-minute initial consultation.