In Germany’s museum landscape the Kunstmuseum Bonn plays a specific role. The collection’s centres of gravity are “August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists” and “German art after 1945”.

For visitors from here and abroad the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle with its changing exhibitions of world standard is a centre of attraction. In 2001, the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle was the most-visited cultural centre of Germany with a number of visitors of about 1.1 million.

Franz Mostert has collected more than 30 historical carriages in his private museum – nostalgic vehicles from a time, when people moved forward with a maximum of 2 PS (horsepower).

Max Ernst, who was born in Brühl in 1891, belonged to the Cologne-based Dada artists, who formed an artistic poetical countermovement to the bourgeoisie at the end of the first World War.

in the Poppelsdorfer Schloss (Poppelsdorf Castle)
The exhibition, which is divided into four subject-related main sectors, (minerals and their systematics, rocks and meteorites, ore and mineral raw material and precious stones (jewels)) can be seen in four halls on an exhibition ground of approx. 500 m².