Duisburg

Worth seeing in and around Duisburg

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena

   MSV-Arena, currently known for sponsorship purposes as the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena, is a football stadium in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, built in 2004. The stadium is the home of football club MSV Duisburg and American football club Rhein Fire.

   3.1 km · football (soccer) stadium in Duisburg, Germany · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

   Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany. It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner, with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it.

   5.2 km · park in Duisburg, Germany · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Max Planck Institute for Coal Research

   The Max Planck Institute for Coal Research is an institute located in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany specializing in chemical research on catalysis. It is one of the 86 institutes in the Max Planck Society.

   8.7 km · research institute in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Wedaustadion

   Wedaustadion was a multi-purpose stadium in Duisburg, Germany. It was the home ground for MSV Duisburg until the club moved to the new MSV-Arena after the 2003–04 season.

   3.1 km · stadium in Duisburg · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Duisburg Zoo

   The Duisburg Zoo, founded on 12 May 1934, is one of the largest zoological gardens in Germany. It is especially well known for its dolphinarium and, since 1994, for breeding koalas.

   3 km · zoo in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Trams in Duisburg

   The Duisburg tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Duisburg, a city in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Opened in 1881, the network has been operated since 1940 by the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft and is integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr.

   800 m · tram system in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Lehmbruck Museum

   The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Center for International Sculpture is a museum in Duisburg, Germany, designed and built between 1957 and 1967. Sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, after whom the museum is named, make up a large part of its collection.

   600 m · art museum in Duisburg, Germany · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Museum Küppersmühle

   Museum Küppersmühle is a Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art based in Duisburg's Inner Harbour. It houses the Ströher Collection.

   1.1 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Theater Duisburg

   The Theater Duisburg is located in Duisburg, Germany and is one of two opera houses where performances are given by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The other is the Opernhaus Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf.

   600 m · opera house in Duisburg, one of the venues of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Museum zur Vorgeschichte des Films

    The Museum zur Vorgeschichte des Films is a permanent exhibition on the development of moving images before the invention of cinematography. Together with the world's largest walk-in camera obscura, the museum is housed in a 25.5 m high water tower in the Broich district of Mülheim.

    7.4 km · museum · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Salvatorkirche
2. 02
   Rathaus
3. 03
   Museum of Cultural and Local History
4. 04
   German Inland Waterways Museum
5. 05
   Lehmbruck Museum

   Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 40/Düsseldorfer Str.

6. 06
   Museum Küppersmühle

   Philosophenweg 55 (at the inner harbour; bus 934 "Hansegracht").

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Things to do

1. 01
   Boat trips on Duisport
2. 02
   Duisburg Opera

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Where to eat

1. 01
   Poukhoun

   Heerstraße 256 (Bus 937, 944 "Bethesda-Krankenhaus"),.

2. 02
   Mongo's

   Philosophenweg 17-18 (at the inner harbour; bus 934 or night bus NE4 "Hansegracht"), duisburg@mongos.de.

3. 03
   Enoteca La Trattoria

   Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz 2 (Tram U79 or 903 "Steinsche Gasse" or bus 923, 924, 926, 929, 937, 939, SB10, SB30 or night bus NE1, NE2, NE4 "Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz"), info@enoteca-la-trattoria.de.

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Getting to Duisburg

Airports

Düsseldorf (DUS), 16 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 47 km · Dortmund (DTM), 60 km

Stations

Duisburg Central Station, 1.1 km · Oberhausen Central Station, 7.7 km · Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof, 8.6 km · Duisburg-Entenfang station, 7.3 km · Duisburg-Wedau station, 4.9 km

• Weeze → Duisburg

  45 km · quickest by road, 59 min · €6–8
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• Dortmund → Duisburg

  49 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · €6–8
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• Köln (Cologne) → Duisburg

  57 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €7–10
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