Welcome to the Villa Medica homepage – take your time to look around.
Exhibition Hours
all year round Tuesdays – Sundays 14:00 – 17:00
Office Hours
All year round, Tuesdays through Fridays, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Opening hours on public holidays and festive days
Carnival Sunday: closed.
Easter: Closed on Good Friday, open on Easter Sunday and closed on Monday.
Whitsun: Saturday, Sunday and Monday closed.
Rheder Kirmes: Friday – Monday closed.
Klumpensonntag (the second Sunday in October): Closed.
Christmas: 24.12. – 26.12. closed.
New Year’s Eve: 31.12. and 01.01. closed.
Our offers
Permanent Exhibition
The completely redesigned permanent exhibition invites you to get to know selected focal points of the history of nutrition, pharmacy and medicine on several levels. Experience with our Rheesing family what it meant to be dependent on help in the past.
Special Exhibition
We present a topic for a limited time in our own rooms.
From August 8 to October 4, 2026, we will be presenting the special exhibition:
A sale exhibition featuring the estate of the Rhede artist Mihailo Kostic.
Traveling in a Time Machine
New! Kids can now go on a quest to find the miracle ointment at the museum. Learn more about this new activity on this page: