Monographie Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Das Kunstmuseum Bonn gehört zu den großen, bundesweit
beachteten Museen für Gegenwartskunst.
Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn Museum of Modern Art) is among the large,
nationwide museums renowned for contemporary art.
architecture, the building, which was inaugurated in 1992
and designed by the Berlin architect Axel Schultes, has been
one of the most important museum constructions in
Germany in the past decades. The house is known, first and
foremost, for its unique collection of paintings by August
Macke and the art of the Rhenish expressionists. Further, it
also impresses with its outstanding collection of German art
after 1945 – among these, important works by Joseph
Beuys, Rosemarie Trockel or Sigmar Polke. With the “Edu -
cation and Mediation” area of responsibility, social-political
requirements as regards contemporary museum work and
art mediation are realised by means of a qualified and
versatile museum-pedagogical offer, which takes on a key
function within the framework of Bonn’s leisure and edu -
cational offers.
Fascination science: history, technology and nature
At the scientific location of Bonn, those buildings that are
dedicated to technology, natural science and contemporary
history also attract great attention. Time and again, the Haus
der Geschichte (HdG) (House of the History of the Federal
Republic of Germany) casts light on new pages from the
recent past. A collection of about 7,000 exhibits, starting
with the post-war period and animated stagings, accom -
panies the visitors through the exhibitions. Interactive terminals
motivate visitors to make independent discoveries.
Contemporary witnesses provide a variety of different
perspectives for historical events. Furthermore, the HdG
offers the possibility to take a look at authentic venues such
as Palais Schaumburg, the Chancellor’s bungalow or the
former Federal Council hall.
Selected museums in the Rhein-Sieg district
– Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus, Bad Honnef
– Turmmuseum der Stadt Blankenberg with a wine museum
in the rune house
– Siebengebirgsmuseum Königswinter
– Schloss Drachenburg, Königswinter
– Museum für schlesische Landeskunde (Museum for Silesian
Regional Studies) in Haus Schlesien, Heisterbacherrott
– Glasmuseum (Glass Museum) Rheinbach
– Stadtmuseum (City Museum) Siegburg
– Fischereimuseum der Fischereibruderschaft Bergheim an
der Sieg (Fishery Museum of the Fishing Brotherhood)
– Bilderbuchmuseum (Picture Book Museum) of the City of
Troisdorf Burg Wissem
– Heimatmuseum (Museum of Local History) Villip
– Besucherbergwerk Grube Silberhardt, Windeck-Öttershagen
– Memorial “Landjuden an der Sieg”, Windeck-Rosbach
– Heimatmuseum (Museum of Local History) Windeck
Technophile visitors appreciate the Deutsche Museum
Bonn. Located in the science centre of the “Stifterverbands
für die Deutsche Wissenschaft” (the Benefactors' Association
of German Science), the house is home to about 100 technical
and scientific feats from the fields of physics, chemistry,
biology, aerospace technology as well as ecology.
The most northern house of the mile, the zoological
research museum Alexander Koenig – Leibniz Institute for
Biodiversity of Animals (ZFMK), has developed a leading
reputation as a natural history museum, brought on by its
documentation, research and explanation of biodiversity.
The large collections form the basis for the search for solutions
to retain biodiversity. In the naturally-appearing ex -
hibition areas of the permanent exhibition “Unser blauer
Planet – Leben im Netzwerk” (Our blue planet – life in a
network) visitors immerse themselves into the great habitats
of earth. A partial area is the new rain forest exhibition that
opened its doors in the spring of 2016 for the first time and
has the purpose of sensitising the audience for the treasure
chest of life.
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