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Attractions for all ages

Exciting trips into the past, views into the world of children’s books and informative things from nature – many museums in the region are an attraction for children and young persons as well.


Museums for Children in Bonn

Museum Beethoven-Haus Bonn

Bonngasse 24-26
53111 Bonn
Telephone: +49(0) 2 28 / 98 17 5-25 (telephone answering machine)
Telefax: +49(0) 2 28 / 98 17 5-26
Email: museum(at)beethoven-haus-bonn.de
www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de

Regularly each 3rd Sunday in the month children starting from 8 years explore the museum on Beethovens traces. The chamber music hall always offers on children co-ordinated concerts.
Further information to workshops for children you will find here.


Deutsches Museum Bonn

Ahrstr. 45
53175 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 30 22 55
www.deutsches-museum-bonn.de

Classes in a museum instead of in the classroom – this is the motto. Classes in between meaningful objects, among others even Nobel prizes, motivate to use the creative potential of the ingenious mind and to imitate it. With these workshops, thematic weeks and
new experimental stations young persons can step into the footprint of the old research scientists.
Further information to workshops for children you will find here.


Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Willy-Brandt-Allee 14
53113 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 916 50
www.hdg.de

Maybe your children are interested in seeing an ice-cream parlour from the 1950s or the big Mercedes of Konrad Adenauer, the former chancellor ? This and much more about policy, economy, culture and everyday life since 1945 can be found in the Haus der Geschichte
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the museum for contemporary history. Here, children can experience in a very realistic way how their parents and grandparents lived as children and young persons.
Further information to workshops for children you will find here.


Haus der Natur

Venusberg
An der Waldau 50
53127 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 28 51 07
Email: waldau.restaurant(at)t-online.de
www.waldau.de

Visitors can get to know interesting things about the economy of nature, especially about the local scenery and the Naturpark Kotten-
forst (Wildlife Park Kottenforst).
An effective biotope and the protection of species are supposed to meet with great interest. A special experience for children is the so-called stroke wall with stuffered animals from the woods and meadowlands.

Opening hours:
Nov. 1 - March 31, Tu.-Fr. 13:00 - 17:00 PM, Sa. - Su. 11:00 AM - 17:00 PM
April 1 - Oct. 31, Tu. - Fr. 13:00 - 18:00 PM, Sa. - Su. 11:00 AM - 18:00 PM
(closed on holidays, except Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi Day and the Day of Geman Chity)
Free admission!


Kunstmuseum Bonn

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
53113 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 62 60
Email: museumspaedagogik(at)bonn.de
www.bonn.de/kunstmuseum

Whether it is about painting courses for children or birthday parties for kids – there is not limit to children’s creativity at the Kunstmuseum, which causes a vivid consideration of the work of art
and the contemporary art under educational direction.
Further information to workshops for children you will find here.


Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4
53113 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 917 12 00
www.bundeskunsthalle.de

Children will experience the visit to this museum with its exhibitions and its possibility to consider the different work of art in a practical and sculptural way as a special event. Under professional direction by artists and educationalists the creativity and  understanding of children can be awakened.
Further Information to workshops for children you will find here.


LVR - LandesMuseum

Colmantstr. 14-16
53115 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 20 70-0
Telefax: +49 (0)2 28 / 20 70-150
Email: rlmb(at)lvr.de
www.rlmb.lvr.de

The LVR - LandesMuseum arranged again as topic museum makes an exciting and more intensive argument with historical questions as well as the cultural life at that time in the Rhine country for your children possible.
The topic "the secrets on the trace" answered for example questions of the children, as "from where one knows that this piece of find originates from a certain time?".  An introduction to the archaeological research becomes acquainted with the child more near.  Eight further interesting topics will inspire the children.
Further information to workshops for children you will find here.


Stadtmuseum Bonn

Franziskaner Str. 9
53103 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 77 20 94
www.bonn.de/stadtmuseum/inhalte/kinder.htm

Going to a museum can be fun ! Children and young                                                               persons an 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.
Further information to workshops for children you will find here.


Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

Adenauerallee 160
53113 Bonn
Telephone: +49 (0)2 28 / 912 20
www.museumkoenig.de

If your children are interested in animals, the Museum Alexander Koenig is the right place to visit. In special guided tours children get some detailed information on the various insects and animals. Dressed as a butterfly they will get to know the world of the butterflies, and / or with the help of existing animals they will get explanations about the life of dinosaurs.
Further information to workshops for children you will find here.


Museen für Kinder in der Region

Bilderbuchmuseum (picture-book museum) Burg Wissem

Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem
Burgallee
53840 Troisdorf
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 88 41 17
Telefax: +49 (0)22 41 / 88 41 20
Email: museum(at)troisdorf.de
www.bilderbuchmuseum.de

Opening hours:
Tu. – Su. 11:00 AM – 17:00 PM

The Burg Wissem, a water castle from the 19th century, is idyllically located in a park area with a game preserve and a playground. It accommodates the picture-book museum, which is unique in Europe. Next to historical literature for children and young persons from 1498 until modern times, the museum presents an extensive collection of original picture-book illustrations, as well as changing exhibitions.


Naturpark Kottenforst-Ville (Wildlife Park Kottenforst-Ville)

The wildlife park Kottenforst-Ville is located in the Rhineland in the middle of Europe. This area with a total size of moe than 1000 m² is located west of Cologne and Bonn between Rhine and Eifel. The wildlife park offers unlimited possibilities to recover. You can do sports, make excursions into nature or discover the traces of the past. We can also recommend the interactive leisure-time planner, an innovative internet technology giving detailed information on all activities, leisure-time offers and sights.

Haus der Natur (House of nature)
Im Himmeroder Hof
Himmeroder Wall 6
53359 Rheinbach
Telephone: +49 (0)2 26 / 23 43
Email: info(at)naturpark-kottenforst-ville.de
www.naturpark-kottenforst-ville.de

Opening hours:
Tu.-Fr. 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 14:00 PM - 17:00 PM
Sa. 14:00 PM - 17:00 PM
Sunday and holidays 11:00 AM - 17:00 PM
free admission
We offer special programmes and guided tours around the exhibition and the wildlife park for groups, classes and nursery schools.

The House of Nature is an institution for education and information of the wildlife park Kottenforst-Ville. Experience the manifeldness, history and culture of the wildlife park comprising an area of 120 m² and get to know more about the ecological connections and backgrounds.


LVR-Freilichtmuseum Kommern

Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde
Auf dem Kahlenbusch
53894 Mechernich-Kommern
Telephone: +49 (0)24 43 / 99 800
Telefax: +49 (0)24 43 / 99 80 133
Email: kommern(at)lvr.de
www.lvr.kommern.de

The Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum and Landesmuseum assists you to better understand the present time by an adventure trip into the past and the exciting, but critical comparison between the past and today. Farms, wind mills, rural community buildings, such as school, bake house, chapel and much more – approx. 60 buildings from the different region of the Rhineland have been re-established in the meantime.
You can experience a lot at the Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum. The wonderful museum scenery invites for a walk, on which old useful plants as well as all animals, which reflect the picture of a village at the end of the 15th century, can be seen. The museum is easy for children and young persons, not only thanks to its numerous museum-educational offers. Doll’s houses, toys for boys and cultural objects of the youth from rock’n roll to hippie times offer a view into the world of children and young persons in the past and today.


Schokoladenmuseum Köln (chocolate museum)

Rheinauhafen 1a
50678 Köln
Telephone: +49 (0)2 21 / 931 88 80
www.schokoladenmuseum.de

Step into the tropical rain forest, experience sweet lessons in the chocolate school, visit the chocolate factory of the museum, try something from the chocolate well … the little visitors can discover the world of chocolate from their own perspective during the guided
tours for children. The individual production steps are illustrated by having a taste.
Each Sunday or holiday at 3:00 PM in the afternoon there is a guided tour for small groups or individual kids including a visit of the chocolate school, in which you can take part without prior registration.


Documentation / Books

Also the book offers helpful information and suggestions on a museum attendance with children:
Mit Kindern ins Museum : Rheinland from Susanne Kruger, which is available in the book trade for 13,80 €.



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