Vermilion Children's Museum

The Zinnober Children’s Museum has been a fixture in Hannover’s cultural scene for many years. Families appreciate its offerings just as much as groups from daycare centers and schools. The program accompanying the hands-on exhibitions includes workshops, readings, and field trips. In addition, the Zinnober Museum Lab offers regular activities. The museum is also available for children’s birthday parties. 

Interactive Exhibitions

The educational concept behind these interactive exhibitions emphasizes holistic learning: children can engage with the content through their senses and through hands-on experimentation. The focus is on smelling, touching, seeing, exploring, and trying things out. Textual and multimedia information is provided to complement these activities. In many cases, young visitors can get active and creative themselves, for example by dressing up, taking on different roles, solving tasks, or expressing their impressions artistically.

On a further level, factual information is provided that particularly appeals to the adult guides. This allows them to talk to the children and young people immediately or later about their impressions and experiences and deepen the content. The adults in turn learn to understand the content from the children's perspective.

About the Children's Museum

The museum is operated by the nonprofit organization “Zinnober – a Museum for Children and Young People in Hanover.” In its early years, the museum presented interactive exhibitions at various locations. Since 2022, the museum has been housed in a permanent, spacious facility in Hanover-Linden. The address is: Am Steinbruch 16, 30449 Hanover. Most of the rooms are wheelchair accessible. Events, celebrations, and art activities take place regularly in a large garden.

The Zinnober Children’s Museum has been certified by Kinderferienland Niedersachsen. It receives regular funding from the region and the city of Hanover, as well as from the Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendbildung (LKJ) of Lower Saxony, the Karin and Rudolf Neugebauer Foundation, and children’s book author Ingo Siegner, who also serves as the museum’s patron. Project funds are secured for the rotating hands-on exhibitions. The dedication of many volunteers has been the foundation for the museum’s successful work over the past decades.