Ontdek Bonn

The LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn traces its origins to an antiquities museum founded in 1820, one of Germany's oldest museums. Run by the Rhineland regional authority (LVR), it reopened in 2003 after extensive renovation as a themed museum. Its collection spans some 400,000 years, with notable Roman-era sculpture and a focus on the Rhineland's cultural history.

Museum Koenig is a natural history museum and zoological research institution in Bonn, opened in 1934 and named after Alexander Koenig, who donated his specimen collection to found it. Since 2001 it has formed the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change with the Museum of Nature Hamburg, and displays dioramas and specimens from the natural world.

Haus der Geschichte is a museum of contemporary German history in Bonn, tracing the country's story from the end of the Second World War to the present. With around one million visitors a year, it is one of Germany's most-visited museums and the flagship of a foundation that also runs sister sites in Leipzig and Berlin.

The Kunstmuseum Bonn is an art museum on Bonn's Museum Mile, founded in 1947 and housed since 1992 in a building designed by Axel Schultes. Its collection centres on Rhenish Expressionism and German art after 1945, including works by Joseph Beuys, August Macke and Georg Baselitz.