Theater Münster, Municipal theatre in Münster-Mitte, Germany

Theater Münster is a five-discipline municipal theatre in Münster-Mitte, built in 1956 by the architects' team Münster around Max von Hausen, Ortwin Rave, Werner Ruhnau and Harald Deilmann. Its angular grey concrete volumes sit beneath a curved drum of tall vertical glass panes separated by closely spaced grey fins. A two-storey foyer wraps around the auditorium and, upstairs, around an inner courtyard containing a large plane tree and the ruin of the war-destroyed Romberger Hof.

The building opened in 1956 as Germany's first new theatre construction following World War II. Its creation marked an important moment in the city's cultural recovery and the nation's return to civic life.

The theatre's name changed from Städtische Bühnen Münster to Theater Münster in September 2012. Its programme also includes the Niederdeutsche Bühne, a Low German dialect stage, alongside guest performances, readings and lectures. The Sinfonieorchester Münster gives its symphony concerts here.

The box office is open Monday through Friday from 10 to 18 and Saturdays from 10 to 14. Visitors should allow time to explore the building and arrive well before performances begin.

The main entrance is topped by Norbert Kricke's sculpture Raum-Zeit-Plastik, made in 1955/56. Behind the two-storey foyer, an inner courtyard holds a large plane tree and the ruin of the war-destroyed Romberger Hof, the garden front of a neoclassical palace built around 1780 by Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper.