German Röntgen Museum, Scientific museum in Remscheid, Germany.
The German Röntgen Museum occupies an old Bergisch patrician house on Schwelmer Straße 41, extended by several large annexes at the edge of Lennep's historic old town, a few hundred metres from Röntgen's birthplace. Its 2,100 m² covers the cellar of the patrician house and a two-storey annex for imaging technology, with 155,000 objects including a glass woman and the experimental setup of the 1895 discovery.
The museum opened in 1932 to preserve the work of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered X-rays in 1895. This breakthrough earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics and launched modern radiology as a medical field.
The name honors Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a local scientist whose discovery transformed medicine. Visitors can trace how this technology entered everyday hospitals and clinical practice.
The museum stands at Schwelmer Straße 41 on the edge of Lennep's old town, a few hundred metres from Röntgen's birthplace at Gänsemarkt 1. The cellar of the patrician house is open to visitors, and the annex presents imaging technology on two floors. Coffee is available at tables in the entrance area, and a museum shop is attached.
The museum holds the actual equipment Röntgen himself used during the experiments that led to his discovery of this radiation. These original devices give visitors a direct connection to a Nobel laureate's workshop and methods.
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