27.06.2024, Museum Mile Festival

For two days from 22 to 23 June 2024, the Museum Koenig Bonn opened both its doors and the Museum Park to young and old at the legendary Museum Mile Festival of the five major museums on the Museum Mile. In addition to live music from classical to jazz to rock-pop, theatre and dance performances, researchers offered insights into their work and "behind the scenes" of the museum. Of course, visitors were welcome to ask any questions and marvel at the "hallowed halls" of our scientific collections.

There were plenty of hands-on activities in the museum park: For example, the FÖRTAX project inspired visitors with its activities for more nature conservation. Countless "FlowerPowerBalls" - seed balls with native plant seeds - were handmade by visitors. Together, they all made a small contribution to making our environment a little greener and supporting local insect diversity.

The focus was on discovering and exploring the fascination of nature, for example at the GBOL III - DARK TAXA stand, at NATUR BEFLÜGELT! - a programme by the ALEXANDER-KOENIG-GESELLSCHAFT (AKG) and the museum for young people who discover biodiversity outside of school and take part in our research, or at the "Bonn Working Group for Bat Protection", which offered exciting information about flying mammals.

Our brand new platform NEO - NATUR ENTDECKEN ONLINE - a learning platform for designing your own fantasy animals and their habitat - had its premiere. The digital escape game PROJECT POLLINATION was also at the start - in which players try to build a city with the highest possible diversity of pollinators. There were great prizes to be won at the AKG's wheel of fortune and raffle, with the proceeds going to the museum. Our new research bus, which will go on tour from late summer and bring research into biodiversity to the Bonn region and surrounding area, had its preview.

Juggling, diabolo and more - the ZIRKUSTHEATER invited visitors to try it out, and from snake-taming together with the DGHT STADTGRUPPE BONN to cutting out fossils with the "Naturzentrum Eifel" and crafting with natural materials together with " BONNATOURS", there was an activity for everyone!

On Saturday afternoon, Bonn's THEATER MARABU hosted the preview of the play "BAD BUGS" and in the evening, the audience listened to the sounds of the 70s by the band TASTE OF WOODSTOCK and THE RIGHT PILL in the park. On Sunday, jazz and the sounds of classical composers from the chamber choir "Voci di Fuoco" resounded in the halls of the museum, and on stage, young and old artists enchanted the audience, such as the "BIS Primary and Secondary String Ensembles & Soloists of the Bonn International School" and the orchestra "Camerata Nonnenwerth" & Friends. An all-round successful festival with a new attendance record - we are already looking forward to next year!