Rosport (Tudor Museum)

Castle in Rosport, Luxembourg

French: Château de RosportGerman: Schloss RosportLuxembourgish: Schlass vu Rouspert

Type: Castle
Location: Rosport
Built: 1892
Entry: €5
Visit time: 1.5 h
Access: Open to visitors

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About Rosport (Tudor Museum)

The Tudor Museum, is located in the little town of Rosport (Luxembourgish: Rouspert) in north-eastern Luxembourg. Built in 1892, it was the home of the Luxembourg inventor Henri Tudor. Since May 2009, the castle has housed the Tudor Museum.

For Henri Tudor, electricity was a passion. The museum dedicated to him in Rosport offers an exciting mix of interactive stations and traditional museum. Learn about the impact of Henri Tudor’s work on daily life – from the 19th century to the present day. The engineer was one of the pioneers in the development of electricity storage, lead acid batteries, street lighting, agricultural machinery, methods of transport and much more. You can follow in his footsteps as a researcher here – and experimentation is definitely encouraged!

History

During the German occupation of Luxembourg in the Second World War, the castle was used to accommodate girls assigned to the Reichsarbeitsdient who performed farming and house-keeping work. Around 1957, it became a guest house and, in 1964, the American firm Monsanto converted it into a hotel. However business was not very successful and in 1970, the Commune of Rosport bought the castle for its own administrative offices while continuing to rent out the first-floor apartments to vacationers. In 1972, these were replaced by a holiday home for old people.

After restoration work was completed in 1999, serious consideration was given to opening a museum on the premises. In 1981, the celebrations for Tudor's 100th anniversary had included an exhibition on the development of the lead–acid battery, his principal success. Although the decision to go ahead with the museum was reached in 1995, many difficulties had to be overcome and it was only in May 2009 that the "Friends of the Henri Tudor Museum" were finally able to open it to the public.