Germany Guide
North Rhine-Westphalia
Museum Koenig
Address: Museumsmeile, U-Bahn Museum Koenig
Opening time: Tues & Thurs– Sun 10am–6pm, Wed 10am–9pm
Price: €3
The Museum Koenig is a stately sandstone pile on Bonn's Museumsmeile that was the venue for the first elected postwar national assembly on September 1, 1948. The museum's zoological exhibits have been given a child-friendly makeover, though the lack of English labelling limits its rainy-day appeal slightly – pick up the English-language leaflet at the entrance. Displays are grouped by habitat and include African savannah, rainforest and the Arctic; the Vivarium in the basement has live lizards, snakes and fish, as well as the Zwergmaus – a particularly tiny rodent.