Almost all buildings of the complex have been preserved, including the late Gothic church on a hill, the cloister with over 500-year-old wall paintings, and the nearly 1000-meter-long monastery walls that surround the compound. A special place, not only because of its size, is also taken by the 7.5-hectare monastery gardens. Taken together, the historically significant ensemble gives a representative impression of the size and cohesion of a complete monastery complex.
Today, numerous events and exhibitions at the LWL State Museum for Monastic Culture make various facets of monastic culture tangible and provide insight into the diverse knowledge of generations of monks.
The museum's offerings are complemented by videos that provide exciting insights into hidden places that are generally not accessible to museum visitors. The films, each about two minutes long, showcase places and objects that have been uncovered by archaeologists over the years and are partly chance finds. In the films, one can discover, among other things, what is hidden under the trapdoor in the monks' meeting room, where the monastery head could go to the bathroom, or how the attic of the monastery church looks like.
You can find the website of the LWL State Museum for Monastic Culture, Foundation Kloster Dalheim here, and the videos here.
