
The residence and place of death of Ernst-Moritz Arndt (1769-1860), a professor for history at the university of Bonn, has been in the possession of the city of Bonn since 1867 and forms a dependency of the StadtMuseum today.
The Frauenmuseum is a vivid and special museum. As the first museum of its kind it was founded by engaged women in 1981. The advancement of art, culture and science for women is the most important interest of this unique institution.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the so-called “Reichskristallnacht”, the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis established a memorial place, which reminds of the life of the Jews in the Sieg valley and the downfall of their communities during the “Holocaust”.
For lovers of precious glasses the Rheinbach-based special museum is an attraction. In 1968, the museum came into being with the first special collection for North Bohemian hollow glass from the 17th century up until today.
The German contemporary history becomes alive in the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn:
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 Berlin wall, Honecker’s warrant of arrest and the first Green Card for a foreign IT specialist are displayed here.

The Museum “Haus der Völker und Kulturen” is the ethnological museum of the Steyler missionaries of Sankt Augustin. In its rooms numerous non-European people are exhibited, above all from black Africa, Papua Neuginea, China and Ethiopia.
Since 1974, the old school building has been a place for the preservation and care of moveable monuments, native history, culture, art and nature. It accommodates historical exhibits of cultural interest.
Next to a small pre-historical and ancient collection, the museum’s exhibits concentrate on its local history.
The Heimatmuseum reflects the local uninterrupted development history of one of Bonn’s suburbs.