Explorer Dortmund

The German Football Museum is the national museum of German football, located in Dortmund near the central station. It opened in 2015 and traces the history of the German game through its permanent exhibition, including memorabilia from national and club football, World Cup trophies, and the Hall of Fame honoring the country's leading players and coaches.

A former Union brewery building in Dortmund, built in 1926-1927 as the city's first high-rise. Preserved for its landmark status after the brewery closed in 1994, it reopened in 2010 as a centre for art and creativity, housing the Museum Ostwall beneath its illuminated rooftop U sign.

The Florianturm is a 209-metre telecommunications and observation tower in Dortmund's Westfalenpark, built in 1959 for the federal horticultural show and named after St. Florian. It was briefly Germany's tallest freestanding structure and holds the world's first revolving restaurant, which turns three times an hour roughly 138 metres above the ground.

Westfalenstadion, known as Signal Iduna Park for sponsorship reasons, is the home ground of Borussia Dortmund in Dortmund. Opened in 1974 and since expanded, it holds over 81,000 spectators and is Germany's largest stadium. Its standing-room south terrace, the Südtribüne, nicknamed the Yellow Wall, is the largest terrace for spectators in European football.

Phoenix des Lumières is an immersive digital art venue in Dortmund-Hörde, set inside a former gas-blower hall built in 1905 for the blast furnaces of the Phoenix-West steelworks. Listed as a heritage building since 2002, the hall projects large-scale animated versions of artworks across its walls and floor, with exhibitions from the Culturespaces network.

Zollern II/IV Colliery is a former coal mine in the Bövinghausen district of Dortmund, built from 1898 as a model colliery with Art Nouveau brick architecture designed by Paul Knobbe. Its machine hall houses the original generators, and the entrance building has an Art Nouveau portal by Bruno Möhring. Since 1981 it has been the headquarters of the Westphalian Industrial Museum.