PLAZA INN Recklinghausen

Experience pure energy: in Germany's largest electricity museum and go on a journey through the history of electrification. The journey through time electricity shows how electricity came to the people of the Ruhr area and fundamentally changed their lives and work

Strünkede Castle is a moated castle in the Baukau district of Herne in the middle of an extensive castle park. Until the end of the 18th century, the castle was the seat of the baronial von Strünkede family. Since 1938, the Emschertal Museum has been home to cultural and urban history collections.

Not a prehistoric stone circle, but an imposing calendar structure of the 21st century: The breathtaking highlight on the northern summit plateau is the horizon observatory.

Explore the exciting world of archaeology and cultural history, one that is everything but superficial. Immerse yourself, in the permanent exhibition, in the archaeological memory of mankind.

Enjoy your vacation in the Wananas sports and adventure pool. They offer you pure relaxation and wellness as well as bathing and water fun for the whole family, including great slide fun.

The Recklinghausen Icon Museum opened in 1956, invites you on a journey into the world of images of Eastern Church art. It houses over 4,000 icons, embroideries, miniatures, and wood and metal works from Russia, Greece, and other countries of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. The exhibits include works of art of the highest quality as well as everyday objects. Recklinghausen thus has the most important museum of Eastern Church art outside of the Orthodox world.

The Jerke Museum is a privately financed and operated art museum in Recklinghausen. According to the Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, it is the first museum outside of Poland to exclusively display modern Polish art.

In the ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen you can experience a "world trip in one day" 365 days a year in the heart of the Ruhr area. On an area of more than 30 hectares, the adventure worlds of Alaska, Africa and Asia offer around 900 animals of over 100 species a home based on their natural habitat.

The Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – founded in 1930 – is one of eight research museums belonging to the Leibniz Association. It researches, teaches and preserves the history of the mining, processing and use of geo-resources across all of the relevant time periods. Its research areas include: archaeometallurgy, mining history, materials science, and mining archaeology, together with the research laboratory, and the Montanhistorische Dokumentationszentrum (the Mining History Documentation Centre, or montan.dok). 

The Art Museum Gelsenkirchen is a municipal museum in Gelsenkirchen-Buer. In addition to art from the first half of the 20th century, the house focuses on an extensive collection of kinetic art.

The Tierpark - Fossilium Bochum is located in the middle of the city, right next to the Stadtpark and the famous Bismarck Tower. There are 3,300 animals of around 350 species to marvel at in Bochum Zoo

The Red Dot Design Museum is organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen e. V. operated design museum in Essen. Since 1997, the museum has been located in the former boiler house of the Zollverein colliery, which was redesigned by Norman Foster for the new purpose.

The Ruhr Museum, formerly Ruhrlandmuseum, is a natural and cultural history museum for the Ruhr area in Essen with a wide range of holdings and departments.

The DASA - World of Work Exhibition is a museum in Dortmund that opened in 1993 as the German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition and sees itself as a creative place of learning for safety and health at work with leisure time value

The Movie Park Germany near Bottrop-Kirchhellen is a seasonal amusement park with a focus on the theme of film. In addition to film-based rides and shows in seven themed areas, there are studios where television and cinema productions have been shot.

Leisure Park Schloss Beck offers children and parents a colorful mixture of exciting rides, adventurous playgrounds, indoor playhouses (even when the sun takes a break) to let off steam, hide and climb. Here you can relax in beautiful nature, in the lovingly designed castle park or on our idyllic castle pond.

The Museum Folkwang is an art museum in Essen. It was opened in Hagen in 1902 by the art patron Karl Ernst Osthaus under the name Folkwang Museum and played a pioneering role in the field of modern art for a long time