Regina-Pacis-Weg 7
53111 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 97 10 or 73 75 87
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 73 60
Email: aegyptisches-museum(at)uni-bonn.de
www.aegyptisches-museum.uni-bonn.de

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Opening hours:
Tu. - Su.12:00 – 14:00 PM
Closed: Monday and on holidays

The most beautiful pieces of the Egyptian Collection of the University of Bonn illustrates the ancient life from 4000 B.C. until 300 A.D. More than 700 pieces on display present the keypoints of
ancient Egyptian culture such as religion, daily life and burial customs.

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Am Hofgarten 21
53113 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 77 38 or 73 50 11
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 72 82
Email: ai.museum(at)uni-bonn.de
www.antikensammlung.uni-bonn.de

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Opening hours:
Casting collection: Su. – Fr. 10:00 AM – 13:00 PM, Thu. 16:00 – 18:00 PM
Original collection: Tu. + Su. 10:00 AM – 13:00 PM, Thu. 16:00 – 18:00 PM
Guided tours: Sunday 11:00 AM
Closed in August and on holidays

The Akademisches Kunstmuseum, which was built according to the plans of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1824, has been used as an archaeological institute of the university since 1884. Part of its exhibits is one of the biggest casting collections of antique sculptures, as well as a meaningful collection of Greek and Roman original works (vases, terracotta, bronzes and marble works). In addition, the museum accommodates a fantastic collection of antique ceramics. At the very beginning, the museum served as a place for teaching and studying purposes; today, it is open to the public as a museum and attracts people who are interested in antique art.

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Bornheimer Straße 96
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 65 55 31
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 69 15 50
Email: buero(at)august-macke-haus.de
www.august-macke-haus.de

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Opening hours:
Tu. – Fr. 14:30 – 18 PM, Sa. + Su. and on public holidays 11.00 AM – 17.00 PM
Free guided tours on Sunday, 11:30 AM; further guided tours upon prior announcement

The house, in which the painter August Macke (1887 – 1914) – one of
the most important representatives of the Rhenish Expressionism – lived and worked with his wife Elisabeth and his two sons, accommodates the artist’s only studio he ever had in the attic storey.
It was purchased by the city of Bonn in 1989 with the help of a Bonn-based citizens’ committee and the land Northrhine-Westphalia and was opened to the public in 1991 after a thorough renovation. Here, August Macke created an overwhelming Oeuvre in just three years up until his war death in 1914. These were the three years of finding his very own style, in which the unique artist “gave the colour its most lightest and purest sound”, as Franz Marc said, with whom he painted the legendary wall painting “Paradise” in his studio.
A view from the window of the house into the surrounding area, the busy streets, the churches Marienkirche and Kreuzbergkirche, the blooming gardens and the Viktoria bridge, but also the happenings within the house are the subjects of numerous paintings and sketches of the artist, which can easily be imagined and understood by the visitors still today.

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Bonner Kunstverein
August-Macke-Platz/ Hochstadenring 22
53119 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 69 39 36
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 69 55 89
Email: bonner.kunstverein(at)gmx.de
www.bonner-kunstverein.de

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Opening hours:
Tu. – Su. 11:00 AM – 17:00 PM, Thu. 11.00 AM – 19.00 PM

Today, the advancement of art is the main target of the Bonner Kunstverein, which was founded in 1963. The Bonner Kunstverein displays internationally path-breaking trends of actual art in subject-related or individual exhibitions. The exhibition programme is accompanied by lectures, discussions with artists, panel discussions, art journeys, as well as school projects and projects for children.

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Adenauerallee 79
53113 Bonn
Postanschrift:
StadtMuseum Bonn
Altes Rathaus/ Markt
53103 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 20 94
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 42 98
Email: stadtmuseum(at)bonn.de
www.bonn.de/stadtmuseum

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Opening hours:
Su. 11:30 AM – 17:00 PM
We. – Sa. 13:00 – 17:00 PM
The Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus is only opened for special exhibitions !
Guided tours upon prior announcement at the StadtMuseum Bonn.

The residence and place of death of Ernst-Moritz Arndt (1769-1860), a professor for history at the university of Bonn, was built by Hermann-Friedrich Waesemann, the architect of the university, at the beginning of the 19th century. It is the only still maintained professor house from that time. It was located near the university in the middle of the vineyards outside of the fortification walls at that time.
The Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus has been in the possession of the city of Bonn since 1867 and forms a dependency of the StadtMuseum today. In 1933, the house was opened to the public as a museum and Arndt’s role as a meaningful German personality was honoured this way. Not many of the furniture from Arndt’s possession were maintained, and a Bonn-based painter was therefore given order to copy portraits of the whole family of Ernst-Moritz Arndt.

Im Krausfeld 10
53111 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 69 13 44
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 69 61 44
Email: frauenmuseum(at)bonn-online.com
www.frauenmuseum.de

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Opening hours:
Tu. – Sa. 14:00 – 18:00 PM, Su. 11.00 AM – 18.00 PM, closed on Monday

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. More than 2000 female artists from all over the world already displayed their works here in about 500 exhibitions. Next to the individual exhibitions of meaningful female artists, big subject-related projects and documentations from history, policy and the “Third World” are displayed here. Every three years, the Gabriele-Münster-Prize is advertised, the only prize dedicated to female artists from 40 years on upwards.
On the exhibition grounds of 3000 m², however, art and culture are not only exhibited, but also produced in six different studios. The manifold events, concerts, readings, lectures, theatre and dancing performances carried out here contribute to the vivid atmosphere of this museum. An archive, as well as a library enable women to make scientific investigations; the newly founded academy called “Artemisia” supports female artists in getting professional.

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Steinmann-Institut (Paläontologie)
Nussallee 8
53115 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0) 2 28 / 73-31 03
E-Mail: g.heumann(at)uni-bonn.de; sakaiser(at)uni-bonn.de
www.paleontology.uni-bonn.de/index.htm

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Opening hours:
Mo-Fr, 9am - 4pm, Su 1pm - 5pm

The Goldfuß Museum in the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology, University of Bonn, displays fossils from around the world, which are direct evidence of the billion- year old history of life on earth.
In addition to fossilised marine animals and plants, the museum includes dinosaurs. For example, the life-cycle of fish saurian from babies and young animals through to a pregnant female animal is documented. The 4-meter long plesiosaur is also likely to impress visitors, and children find the skull of Tyrannosaurus rex particularly interesting.
The museum has a 175 year old history and was named after Georg August Goldfuß. It can trace its origins back to the beginning of the University and still has the original exhibition room from 1910. This provides a “museum within a museum” which really does justice to the aesthetic side of the fossils.  
New developments and particularly interesting themes from the area of palaeontology are presented in special exhibitions.
The Goldfuß Museum with its collection belongs to the group of most important paleontological museums in German universities, not least because it was not damaged during the Second World War.

Permanent and special exhibitions / Free entrance!

Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Beuel am Rhein e.V.
Wagnerstr. 2
53225 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 46 30 74
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 46 30 74
Email: info(at)hgv-beuel.de
www.hgv-beuel.de

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Opening hours:
We., Sa. + Su. 15:00 – 18:00 PM
Groups upon prior announcement

Next to a small prehistoric collection, the exhibits at the Heimatmuseum Beuel concentrate on the local history. You will find the clothes and the kit of a Roman legionary here reconstructed according to original objects found, as well as exhibits of the cultural, economic and architectural history, cultivated living with completely furnished rooms, documents of the associations and the handicraft, farmers’ equipment and numerous memorial pieces from private possessions of Beuel-based citizens.
The visitors of the Heimatmuseum Beuel, a museum which is accommodated in a half-timbered house from the 18th century, will get an overall view at the city’s history from the period of the Neanderthal Men up until the recent past.

- Poppelsdorfer Schloss -
Meckenheimer Allee 171
53115 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 90 47 or 73 27 64
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 73 27 63
Email: R.Schumacher(at)uni-bonn.de
www.min.uni-bonn.de

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Opening hours:

We. and Fr. 15:00 – 17:00 PM, Su. 10:00 AM – 17:00 PM (except holidays)
Guided tours for groups outside the opening hours upon prior announcement

The exhibition of worlwide standard, 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. The main focus is put on the systematics of the approximately 550 most important minerals.
The room with the rocks and meteorites displays minerals, which form small, irregular crystal bodies being able to grow together to become rocks.
At the Lagerstättensaal the different kinds of useable minerals and their formation conditions are demonstrated.
The Edelsteinsaal is the treasure of the museum. Here you can see the minerals as raw stones and jewels.

Sebastianstraße 182
53103 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 36 56
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 91 63 656
Email: stadtbibliothek.musikbibliothek(at)bonn.de
www.schumannhaus-bonn.de

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Opening hours:
Mo. + We. – Fr. 10:00 – 12:00 AM
Mo. + Fr. 15:00 – 19:00 PM
We. + Thu. 15:00 – 18:00 PM
Free admission
Free guided tours upon announcement

Museum
Robert Schumann came here in March 1854 after he jumped from the Düsseldorf Rhine bridge after a heavy personal crisis. Dr. Franz Richarz founded a private mental hospital in this former countryseat. Hopes that he would cure did not realise – he died after he saw Clara again just shortly on July 29, 1856.
The nice little museum displays furniture, letters and other memorial pieces from Schumann’s possession.

Musical library
The municipal musical library at the Schumannhaus offers 46.000 notes, books, magazines, CDs, video tapes and new media.

Concerts
The series “House Concerts at the Schumannhaus” invites you to get to know Schumann’s piano and chamber music in an intimate historical ambience. Since 1998, the Schumann festival “Endenicher Herbst – Klassik und Kabarett” has been giving new impulses.

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Schumann tomb
The burial place for Robert and Clara Schumann can be found in a central location at the old cemetery. It is the most popular tomb of this cemetery and was created by Adolf von Donndorf in accordance with Clara Schumann. The original Schumann portrait can be found at the Schumannhaus; the one you can see at the cemetery is a copy of the medallion. The tomb was created in the period of promoterism and connects antique, Baroque and Romanticism elements. Clara Schumann, for example, is represented as a Greek Muse looking up to her husband. Unfortunately, the tomb was often damaged by war and vandalism, but it was always rehabilitated.

Guided City Walking Tour: Robert Schumann in Bonn

The great composer of the Romantic Age had only visited Bonn on a few occasions prior to his being committed to a private mental institution in Bonn-Endenich.
However, when he died there two years later after a prolonged period of suffering, the whole city mourned him and erected a memorial to him at the Alte Friedhof (Old Cemetery).
The guided tour traces Robert Schumann’s steps in the centre of Bonn to the famous personalities of the city’s history and to places that the composer regularly visited. The tour also includes a short visit to the Alte Friedhof and provides an insight into a lively chapter of Bonn’s musical history during the 19th century.

Guided Tours: Sunday 20th May and Sunday 29th July at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday 8th September at 11:00 a.m.
Duration: 2 ½ hours
Meeting Place: Old Town Hall / Market
Price: Adults € 8.50 – Group tours and prices on request.

Franziskanerstraße 9
53113 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 20 94
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 42 98
Email: stadtmuseum(at)bonn.de
www.bonn.de/stadtmuseum

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Opening hours:
Mo. 09:30 AM – 14:00 PM, Thu. – Sa. 13:00 – 18:00 PM, Su. 11:30 AM - 17:00 PM

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. It has an extraordinary and manifold collection with a special emphasis on the period of the 18th to the 20th century.
At the StadtMuseum Bonn you can get familiar with the history of the city of Bonn, which has experienced many meaningful epochs. Before its era as the federal capital, it had been the capital and residential city of the electors of Cologne for more than 300 years. Nowadays, it faces new targets and perspectives. Its location in front of the panorama of the famous Siebengebirge has always contributed to its status and has attracted numerous travellers in the past decades and still today.
The Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Haus at the Adenauerallee 79 is the dependency of the StadtMuseum, which, however, is only opened for special exhibitions. In summer, there are literary events at the Rhine terrace on a regular basis here.

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Workshops for children
Going to a museum can be fun! Children and young persons can get an idea of the city’s history with the help of different projects. Work with children is done in a practical way – depending on the respective subject in various artistic and handicraft techniques -, in order to make a visit to the StadtMuseum as interesting as possible.
www.bonn.de/stadtmuseum/inhalte/kinder.htm