The Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (MKK) occupies a grand 1913 neo-baroque building on Hansastrasse, just north of the city centre. Its permanent collection spans Westphalian art from the medieval period to the twentieth century, alongside applied arts, decorative objects, and a strong collection of furniture and interiors illustrating bourgeois life in the Ruhr from the industrial revolution onward.
The art collection is strongest in nineteenth-century German Romanticism and the early twentieth-century Expressionism associated with the Ruhr region. The archaeology section holds prehistoric and Roman finds from the wider Westphalia area. The building itself — with its formal entrance hall and double staircase — is worth a visit even without the collections. The museum closes on Mondays.