District Music School

The District Music School is the competence centre for musical training and education in the district Viersen.

As an offer school it introduces music in all its forms, promotes talents early on and creates the basis for later musical job training as a matter of priority music for children and youngsters but also to adults. It sees itself as an educational facility and promotes in social context social education. The district music school offers singing and music forms from all areas of music and works together with school and non-school cooperation partners.

Further information is available on the website of the District Music School.

District Archive

The district archive has the task to evaluate all administration documents of the district and district affiliated communes. All documents, which are not needed anymore have to be sorted whether they are worthy to be stored. If they have legal and historical value they will be stored, conserved, indexed and made accessible to the public. The certificates and documents will be secured and sorted to make them available to the citizens for usage. The district archive is open to all people interested in local and family history.

Further information is available on the website of the district Viersen.

Lower Rhenish open-air Museum

The Lower Rhenish open-air museum vividly depicts as a folkloric regional museum on the basis of authentic historical testimonies from all areas of rural work and living at the Lower Rhine in pre-technical time. The heart of the four hectare large museum terrain is the Doren castle, a moated castle with a history, which can be traced back to the 14th-century. The museum houses here apart from the exhibits about the bourgeois and noble living culture at the Lower Rhine also regularly changing special exhibitions.

In addition the terrain encompasses three complete farmsteads of the Lower Rhine from the 17th and 18th-century, a tannery, a distillery, a forge and a museum's restaurant as well as a supra-regional outstanding toy museum with play goods of German production from the last 150 years.

Further information is available on the website of the Lower Rhenish open-air museum.

District Adult Education Centre

The district adult education centre is a communal further education facility, which is financed mostly with district and state resources and has thus a special social responsibility. As a facility of the district Viersen the adult education centre plans its programme for all nine districts affiliated towns and community in close coordination with these and organises it locally.

Source: Kreisvolkshochschule