Where the big composer was born The house at the Bonngasse No. 20, in which Beethoven was born in 1770, is the family’s only residence in Bonn which is still maintained and still in its original condition. Since 1893, it has been accommodating a museum, which, ...
Experience the history The Haus der Geschichte as part of the Museumsmeile always unfolds nem pages of Germany's recent past. The German contemporary history becomes alive in the Haus der Geschichte (House of Hsitory) in Bonn: ...
The Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig is one of the biggest and most meaningful natural history museums in Germany. The museum, which was founded by Alexander Koenig, a zoologist from Bonn, in 1912, was closely associated with the foundation history of ...
Where Siegfried fought with the dragon With a height of 321 metres the Drachenfels mountain is not the highest one, but it is definitely the most famous mountain of the Siebengebirge. According to Karl Simrock, an expert regarding the Nibelungs legend, it is right here ...
Modern art from the 20th century Works of August Macke and the Rheish Expressionists are just one centre of gravity of the much visited Kunstmuseum; another one is the German art after 1945 In Germany’s museum landscape the Kunstmuseum Bonn plays a specific ...
Conserated to the saints Cassius and Florentius A church erected over the graves of the martyrs Cassius and Florentius around 400 B.C. – according to the legend it was founded by the holy Helena – was the basic unit of today’s Münster Basilica, which forms a jewel of sacral ...
The pearl at the market place Elector Clemens August laid the foundation stone of this magnificent town hall, which forms the Eastern edge of the market place. From 1737 until 1738 it was erected instead of a medieval building. The town hall brilliantly dominates the ...
The weather might be good or bad - the Freizeitpark Rheinaue is always a great leisure park. Children can discover the various playgrounds, go skateboarding or inline-skating or rent boats. There is a popular house for children offering possibilities to play and to do handicraft. And after ...