Sightseeing
Please find below some examples for interesting places
to visit.
Further information:
http://www.bonn-region.de/english.html
or
Beethoven-Haus Bonn Bonn
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
Beethoven-Haus
Bonn (Beethoven House Bonn)
Bonngasse 20 Telephone:
+49 (0)2 28 / 98 175-25
53111
Email: info@beethoven-haus-bonn.de / www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de
Opening hours:
Nov. 1 – March 31:
Sunday and holidays
April 1 – October 31:
Sunday and holidays
The house, in which Ludwig van Beethoven was born in
December 1770, is a centre of attraction for visitors from all over the world.
Beethoven’s grandfather came from Mechelen in
Almost 100 years after Beethoven’s final farewell from
The Beethoven House will soon be expanded by the
“Digital Beethoven Salon”, which is still under construction at the moment, but
supposed to offer a brand new way to the subject of Beethoven from 2003/04 on.
A virtual, three-dimensional workroom of Beethoven
enables visitors to deal with the composer’s work interactively. At a computer
desk he will be able to read Beethoven’s original manuscripts, letters and
first editions and to listen to his music. This way, the historical atmosphere
of Beethoven’s house of birth is connected with trend-setting information
possibilities in a fascinating way and leads to a museum experience of a
special kind.
Digital Beethoven House
With the studio for digital collections and the stage
for musical visualisation in the Digital Bethoven House two further visitor
sectors were opened in 2004. Here you can undertake an inactive trip through
Beethoven's life and
work and experience a fascinationg 3-D production of his only
opera "Fidelio".
Tip: Free
admission with the
Bonngasse
24-26
53111 Bonn
Telephone:
+49 (0)2 28 / 98 175-15
Telefax:
+49 (0)2 28 / 98 175-24
www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de / Email: KMS@beethoven-haus-bonn.de
Visitor service of the museum in the Beethoven house
Email: museum@beethoven-haus-bonn.de
Telephone:+49 (0)2 28 / 98
175-25 Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 98
175-26
A necessity
– the Museumsmeile
The Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany) and
the Kunstmuseum Bonn (Art Museum Bonn) are located between the city centres of
Experience the
history
The Haus der Geschichte as part of the Museumsmeile
always unfolds nem pages of
Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
(House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Willy-Brandt-Allee 14 53113
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 91 65-0 Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 91 65-302
Email: post@hdg.de / www.hdg.de
Opening hours:
Tu. – Su.
Registrations of visitor groups should be effected at least 14 days before the date requested:
The German contemporary history becomes alive in the
Haus der Geschichte (House of History) in
Approximately 7,000 original exhibits ranging from a
railway saloon car of the federal chancellors to an original cinema from the
1950s up to parts of the
About one million visitors come to see the various
exhibitions of the Haus der Geshichte (House of History) per year.
Free admission!
Tip: Free
arrival with the
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
Kunstmuseum
Bonn
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee
2
53113
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 62 60 Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 62 20
Email: kunstmuseum@bonn.de
/ www.bonn.de/kunstmuseum
Opening hours:
Tu. – Su.
In
The Kunstmuseum Bonn is a museum of modern art of the
20th century. The collection’s centres of gravity are “August Macke and the
Rhenish Expressionists” and “German art after 1945”. In hardly any other German
museum it is possible to track the development lines of German art as good as
here. Both centres of gravity of the collection are discussed internationally
and have been expanded by works of Robert Delaunay, for example, in the Macke
department, in order to illustrate the changing influence of the national and
international flow of art.
With its changing exhibitions the museum concentrates
on the international art scene of the 20th century, which is reflected in
subject-related exhibitions, as well as individual representations.
Tip: Free
admission with the
Acquisitions
of German reseachers since 1945
Epoch-making discoveries and masterworks of technology
can be admired here.
Deutsches
Museum Bonn (German Museum Bonn)
Ahrstraße
45
53175 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 30 22 554 Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 30 22 54
Email: info@deutsches-museum-bonn.de
/ www.deutsches-museum-bonn.de
Opening hours:
Tue. – Su.
The Deutsches Museum Bonn is the first museum for
temporary research and technology in
Tip: Free
admission with the
A natural
history museum of high rank
Natural history in a new light - Our blue planet is
presented in a fascinating and bright way.
Zoologisches
Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig
(Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander
Koenig)
Adenauerallee 160
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 91 22-0 Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 91 22-212
Email: secretary.zfmk@uni-bonn.de
/ www.museum-koenig.de
The Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander
Koenig is one of the biggest and most meaningful natural history museums in
The permanent exhibition of the Museum Koenig is
called “Our blue planet – life in the network”. In quite a fascinating way it gives
a view into the connections and function of ecological vital processes. Above
all the natural representations of different habitats (savannah, poles, rain
forest, desert, central
Tip: Free
admission with the
Blooming
brilliance from all over the world
The Botanical Gardens of Bonn’s university, which were
laid out in the early 19th century instead of the electoral garden, are located
right behind the Castle Poppelsdorf. More than 8000 species of plant can be
seen here.
Botanische Gärten
Meckenheimer
Allee 171
53115 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 55 23 Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 90 58
Email: botgart@uni-bonn.de
/ www.botgart.uni-bonn.de
Opening hours:
April 1 – October 31:
November 1 – March 31:
Opening hours greenhouses:
open all year round
In 1818, the park around the Castle Poppelsdorf was
laid out as the Botanical Gardens with ten hothouses. Today, this institution
does not only serve as an important research place of botany, but also as a
public park for plant lovers or strollers. With a total of 6 hectares of open
land and a hothouse complex of 2500 m², more than 800 species of plant are
cultivated here. Tropical plants, ferns, mangroves, water lilies, cactuses and
orchids from all over the world are living in the nine connected building parts
according to their natural symbiosis.
The permanent exhibition is supplemented by
professional guided tours and lectures of the “Freundeskreis Botanischer Garten
e.V.” The hothouses are also accessible for people in wheelchairs.
Guided tours
around the former German Bundestag Today
The World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) has become
established successfully as a location for international congresses and
conferences. Next to the congress operation, the city of
The plenary hall (Plenarsaal) in its directive
transparency, which was realized according to the ideas of the members of
parliament by the renowned architect Günter Behnisch, and the waterworks (Altes
Wasserwerk) of the city of Bonn, in which all important decisions for the
reunion of Germany were made, have been representing the successful history of
the origins and the first 50 years of the Federal Republic of Germany up until
today.
Dates: on
Saturday, Sunday and holidays –
Further information can be obtained at the
Bonn-Information,
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 50 00)
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Prices: adults € 4.00, with a reduction € 2.50
Meeting Point: Plenarsaal (plenary hall), entrance II
a, Görresstrasse, federal quarter
Note: The visit
of the World Conference Center Bonn is only possible, if no congresses or
conferences take place that day.
City tours
through the past
The following tour leads you to various sights
regarding the history of the city.
Bonn
Information
Windeckstr.
1 / am Münsterplatz
53103 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 50 00 Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 50 77
Email: bonninformation@bonn.de
Guide
Service of the Bonn-Information
The Bonn-Information mediates trained guides to groups
of traverllers with or without an own bus. Next to the guided city tours and
walking tours around
- Walking tour around the city of
- Walking tour around Bad Godesberg
- Beethoven's
- "Boomtown"
- Churches in
-
- Double church Schwarz-Rheindorf - a jewel of
Romanesque construction art
- Old cementery - the last resting-place of prominent
personalities
- Bonn
International (UNO, CAESAR, Deutsche Welle)
- Souther quarter from the period of promoterism
around
- Baroque
- Women in
- Botanical Gardens
- Nature preserve
Siebengebirge / Romantic Rhine
Many tours can be booked in foreigne languages, such
as English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Polish,
Russian and Portuguese.
We would be glad to assist you in providing the
adresses of bus rental companies.
Guide Tariffs:
Guided tours and walking tours in German (duration: 2
hours): € 75.00, every additional hour € 25.00.
Guided tours and walking tours in a foreign language
(duration: 2 hours): € 85.00, every additional hour € 30.00.
For reservations and further information please
contact the
Bonn
Information, Abt. BonnTouren
Telephone:
+49 (0)2 28 / 77 39 21, Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 69 03 68
Email: bonntouren@bonn.de
