Guided Tours

Wewelsburg District Museum offers guided tours through all of its departments. You can choose between public guided tours that take place regularly (please find the dates of public guided tours in the german version of our website below "Veranstaltungen") and individual guided tours. While you can participate without prior announcement in the public guided tours, we appeal to you for prior arrengement for individual guided tours (please call us: Tel. 0049 / (0) 2955 / 7622-0).

Costs:

Guided tour in german language                     35,- € (10 Pers. Minimum)

Guided tour in english language                      45,- € (10 Pers. Minimum, other languages are available on request)

Beside the costs for the guided tour, there´s an additional entry fee of 1,- € per pers. in the Historical Museum of the Prince Bishopric of Paderborn.

Participation in public guided tour                    3,- € per Pers. (include the entry)

In our department "Wewelsburg 1933-1945 Memorial Museum", guided tours are free of charge for pupils, vocational trainees and apprentices, and students.

Wewelsburg – Experience history in Germany´s triangular castle!

Public Guided Tours in English on April 15^th, 2012, 3 p.m.

Once again in 2012, Wewelsburg District Museum offers public guided tours through its different departments in English language. Visitors can choose between two different tours – one leads through the Historical Museum of the Prince Bishopric of Paderborn, the other guides through the recently new opened exhibition “Ideology and Terror of the SS” in the Memorial Museum Wewelsburg 1933-1945.

The central issue of the Historical Museum – located in Wewelsburg Castle itself – is the history of the Paderborn Land , from the earliest settlements to secularisation in 1802. Visitors can touch coats of armour, see the dungeon, where assumed witches were held in captivity or have a look at an old Jesuit apothecary. This tour will inspire children and adults likewise!

The tour through the permanent exhibition “Ideology and Terror of the SS” in the former guardhouse of the SS at the castle forecourt presents the history of the SS´s activities in Wewelsburg within the broader context of the SS as a whole. Wewelsburg Castle was leased by Heinrich Himmler in 1934, who wanted to turn it into an ideological centre of the SS. For this issue the concentration camp Niederhagen was established beside the village – 1.285 people died here.

Both tours start at 3 p.m. Visitors who are interested in both departments of the museum should not worry which tour to choose: guided tours in English language can also be booked for private groups at all times.

Costs for the public guided tour: adults 3 €  /  reduced 1.50 €  /  Family ticket 6 €