A good thirty years after its founding, the Ribbon Weaving Museum can be found in a new, almost ideal location: in Elberfelder Nordstadt in the Gold-Zack building, built around 1910, where ribbons and healds were produced for decades.

The permanent exhibition covers over 100 years of ribbon weaving and belt turning with working looms, belt tables and other machines, old and new products, documents, models and much more. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the old-style house ribbon weaver's room, which illustrates the life of a ribbon weaving family in the first quarter of the 20th century. The past and the present meet in the Ribbon Weaver Museum. The specific functioning machines and devices and the diverse products are embedded in an ambience that is stimulating for laymen and experts alike.