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- Haus Der Geschichte
- Beethoven House
- Kunstmuseum Bonn
- Bundeskunsthalle
- Bonn Minster
- Altes Rathaus
- Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
- Museum Koenig
- Poppelsdorf Palace
- Botanical Garden
This museum is a complete summary of contemporary German history, from the end of the Second World War to the present. You can see what it’s like to attend a Bundestag debate, journey back to the 1950s at the museum’s antique cinema, and get eye-witness accounts of the student unrest of the 60s and 70s and the fall of the Berlin wall. There are als...
Even if you only have a passing interest in classical music you’ll know something about Ludwig van Beethoven. And the house at Bonngasse 20 is where one of the giants of European culture was born in 1770. The museum is actually an annexe of two buildings; the street-front facade and the building round the back in which Beethoven was born and grew u...
The city’s fine arts museum was established after the war and is dedicated to 20th-century art. You can peruse the largest collection of Rhenish Expressionism in the world, paying special attention to the career of August Macke, one of the founders of Der Blaue Reiter. There’s also an emphasis on post-War German art by the likes of Georg Baselitz, ...
On the Museum Mile, right next to the Kunstmuseum is one of the most visited cultural attractions in the country. The Bundeskunsthalle is an exhibition centre putting on world-beating temporary shows in the fields of art, science, technology and commerce, as well as congresses, concerts, cinema screenings and annual festivals. Just to give you a ta...
One of Germany’s oldest churches, Bonn Minster is a glorious edifice built in the 11th century over ruins of churches and temples that date from Roman times. Two Holy Roman Emperors, Charles IV and Frederick the Fair were crowned at this spot in the 14th century. There are five towers, the largest of which is octagonal, and they’re all broken with ...
On the eastern boundary of Markt (Marketplace) is Bonn’s 18th-century town hall, which still has the mayor’s offices and reception rooms. This exquisite Rococo building was started in the 1730s and is crowned with a mansard roof and dormer windows, has a twin staircase in front. If you can remember back to when Bonn was the capital of West Germany,...
In a memorable building surrounded by a glass cube shell, this museum tackles the archaeological cultural and artistic history of the Middle Rhineland. Seven themed exhibition areas guide you from the days of the Neanderthals to the present day. The main focus is antiquity and the Bronze Age: Take the Waldalgesheim chariot burial, a hoard of gold r...
First off, the building containing Bonn’s world-class zoology museum witnessed a momentous event in 1948 when the opening session of the FDR’s parliamentary council took place in the atrium. And as for the museum, it is named after the Bonn-born naturalist Alexander Koenig, who embarked on expeditions to the Arctic and Africa in the 19th century. T...
The Baroque Poppelsdorf Palace was begun in 1715, right where Poppelsdorf Castle stood until it was flattened during the Cologne War in the 1580s. The palace is a Baroque treasure intended as a pleasure palace for Joseph Clemens, the Archbishop Elector of Cologne. For almost 200 years the building and its grounds have been owned by the University o...
The grounds of Poppelsdorf Palace are planted with the University’s botanical collection, arranged in formal beds and bounded by the palace’s moat. The garden was cultivated throughout the 19th century and by 1900 it was second only to Berlin’s, but was sadly lost in the war. Since then it has been revived, and now has approximately 8,000 plant spe...
- Tour Beethoven House. What to see in Bonn? The top attraction? This one’s easy. Since Ludwig van Beethoven is the city’s most famous son, start with a visit to Beethoven House (Beethoven Haus).
- Gape at the Altes Rathaus. While strolling through the pedestrian-only cobblestone streets of the Old Town, you’re bound to come across Bonn’s old City Hall.
- Browse the food market at the Altes Rathaus. In the bustling three-cornered market square in front of the Altes Rathaus, you’ll discover the colorful Bonn Market.
- Admire the Bonn Minster. The Munsterplatz (or Munster Square) is one of the largest squares in Bonn. (It’s used for events like the Bonn Christmas Market.)
- Bonn Minster. The much-admired Bonn Cathedral (Bonner Münster) is dedicated to Saints Cassius and Florentinus, who were thought to have been executed on this site in the 3rd century.
- House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany. Four years after the German capital returned to Berlin, the first exhibits in the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or "Haus der Geschichte") opened to record the painful years when Germany was a divided nation.
- Beethoven-Haus. Bonn has done much to nurture its connections with Ludwig van Beethoven, one of Germany's most revered composers. A focal point of "Beethoven City" is the great composer's birthplace, Beethoven-Haus, where he was born in 1770.
- Botanical Garden and Poppelsdorf Palace. Bonn Botanical Garden Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), covering some 16 acres and owned and operated by the University of Bonn, can trace its roots back as far as 1340 when constructed as part of the castle gardens.
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- North Rhine-Westphalia
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