Westfälisches Glockenmuseum Gescher, Bell museum in Gescher, Germany

The Westfälisches Glockenmuseum occupies a small listed building in Gescher built in 1902 as a police station. Its roughly 465 m² display holds about 1,000 bells, bell fragments and small bells, including two from Roman times, plus a replica of a bell-founder's workplace and the museum's own brass foundry. A 2010 extension added a large exhibition hall and a new entrance area, nearly doubling the display space.

The building began in 1902 as a police station and now houses the bell museum. A 2010 conversion added a large exhibition hall and a new entrance, nearly doubling the display area to about 465 m². The Deutsches Glockenmuseum e. V., founded in 1984, is based under the museum's roof and pursues campanological research, with a specialist library of around 4,000 works and a yearbook published since 1989.

The place reveals how communities in the region valued bells as expressions of shared identity and faith. The working foundry demonstrates the skill and care that craftspeople invested in creating these objects.

The museum occupies a listed former police station built in 1902; a 2010 extension added a large exhibition hall and new entrance, bringing the display area to about 465 m². The entrance is on the ground floor, and the collection is arranged across the expanded rooms.

The collection includes two bells from Roman times, and a faithfully reconstructed casting workshop lets visitors picture the bell founder's work. The museum also keeps its own brass foundry for demonstrations, while the German Bell Museum association, founded in 1984, runs a specialist library of some 4,000 works.