Museum Mile in Bonn

Wednesday, 21 September 2016 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
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Museum of Modern Art © Hans Weingartz/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

Museum of Modern Art © Hans Weingartz/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

The Museum Mile is an ensemble of five museums in the “Federal City” of Bonn. The term was coined in the mid-1990s, when over a course of a few years several museum buildings were created south of Bonn Centre, which includes five museums on a length of about 3 km along the Bundesstraße 9. Since 1995, the Bonn Museum Mile Festival takes place annually, during which all five museums offer a variety of events for one weekend.

The Museum Mile starts in the north with the Zoological Museum Koenig, at a section of Bundesstraße 9 which is called Adenauerallee. In about 500 meters distance the Museum Mile continues at the Willy-Brandt-Allee with the House of History, and after another 200 meters two more buildings are located in the immediate vicinity, the Bonn Museum of Modern Art and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, also briefly called Bundeskunsthalle.

House of History © Jpetersen/cc-by-sa-2.0 Entrance House of History © Langinger/cc-by-3.0 Berlin Wall © Holger.Ellgaard/cc-by-sa-3.0 Museum of Modern Art © Hans Weingartz/cc-by-sa-2.0-de Alexander Koenig Research Museum © Simbel/cc-by-sa-3.0 Federal Art and Exhibition Hall © Hans Weingartz/cc-by-sa-2.0-de German Museum © Hans Weingartz/cc-by-sa-2.0-de House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany © Jpetersen/cc-by-sa-2.0 End of WWII © Holger.Ellgaard/cc-by-sa-3.0 Conrad Adenauer's Mercedes © Holger.Ellgaard/cc-by-sa-3.0
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House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany © Jpetersen/cc-by-sa-2.0
Between these two buildings there is a square (often called Museum Square), which was used from 1997 to 2011 mainly for concerts. The weather protection of the stage and the auditorium was a open-sided tent roof, hanging on poles, built in 1997 and dismantled and sold in 2012.

After two more kilometers, a little off the main road, at one of the end points of the ensemble, stands the Deutsches Museum Bonn, a branch of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. This building is located on the Ahrstraße, a side street of the Kennedyallee, which also leads to the Bundesstraße 9. All museum buildings in Bonn can be reached by tram. The Museum Koenig has a station named after him on the doorstep, as well as the three other museums that have direct access via the station Heussallee/Museumsmeile. The German Museum is accessible via the station Hochkreuz/Deutsches Museum Bonn.

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