
The Rheinisches LandesMuseum, which was founded in 1820, presents the most different testimonies of Rhenish history, art and culture, from the very beginning of the Stone Age up until today.
The Rheinisches Malermuseum, which was opened in 1989, displays old professional equipment of the painter and varnisher handicraft, such as pastel colour, brushes, furniture, gold-coating tools, stencils and colour mills in a painter’s shop from the turn of the century.
Since May 1993, the extraordinary well-maintained find of a Roman villa has been surrounded by an attractive museum construction protecting the antique building substance. Next to the large-format model, small finds discovered during the excavations are exhibited. There are also special exhibitions.
At the Roman Museum behind the town hall, which was established in a former chapel from the 15th/16th century, many meaningful objects from that time are exhibited.
The Siegburg-based Servatius treasure with its shrines, reliquaries and portable altars is one of the most important Romanesque church treasures in the world. After the closure of the Benedictine Abbey on the Michaelsberg, its reliquary treasure was adjudicated to the catholic parish St. Servatius in 1812.
High above the river Rhine at the slope of the Drachenfels mountain in a wonderful location – this is how the Castle Drachenburg presents itself as a treasure of the 19th century.
With the Schumannhaus in Endenich, the city of Bonn owns one of the most meaningful memorial sites for the composer Robert Schumann. In this house, museum, media and music are combined to a living unit of international renown far beyond the borders of Bonn.
In its permanent exhibition the museum gives an overall view on the changing history of this region. It displays documents and testimonies from the history of the fortresses and manorials, the monasteries, communities and different “historical personalities”.
The subject of the StadtMuseum Bonn, which was opened in 1998, is the presentation of Bonn’s city history and the care of its wide range of exhibits. In its 18 rooms the museum shows its permanent exhibition of the history of the city of Bonn.
On the exhibition grounds of 2,000 m² you can take a walk through the history of Siegburg and its region from the very beginning up until today. The collection of the Siegburg ceramics from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance era is the one which is most known.
Visitors can expect an interesting guided tour giving views into the private life of Konrad Adenauer and the political contemporary history. Underneath the residence there is an exhibition building with a documentation about life and work of Adenauer.
With just four workers and six office employees, a new chapter of Siegburg’s industrial history began in 1911 in a small, narrow building on the ground of the calico factory.

After almost four years of reconstruction, in the course of which the museum was brought up to date with regards to safety precautions, the famous scientific museum has now reopened its doors again. “Unser blauer Planet – Leben im Netzwerk” (Our blue planet – Life in the network) is the title of the permanent exhibition, the heart of which is the museum’s light court redesigned to become a savannah landscape.