Family-friendly
12 places in Cologne
Blücherpark
A strictly geometric people's park in Nippes from 1913 – with a pond, play lawn and Baroque-style avenues, designed by Fritz Encke.
Comedia Theater
An independent children's and youth theatre in the Südstadt – a hub for young audiences with its own productions, dance, cabaret and comedy.
Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum
Germany's national sports museum on the Rheinauhafen – from antiquity to the Olympics, with hands-on stations and a sports court on the roof.
Flora Botanical Garden
Cologne's botanical garden with over 10,000 plant species, historic themed gardens and the grand glass ‘Flora' festival hall in Riehl.
Fritz-Encke-Volkspark
A socially minded people's park by Fritz Encke (1920s) in Raderthal – with flower gardens, an open-air theatre and a reading garden as rare features.
Groov
A popular leisure island on the Rhine in Zündorf – with a marina, beer gardens, mini-golf, a pool and lawns, linked by a Rhine ferry.
Hänneschen-Theater
Cologne's storied rod-puppet theatre on the Eisenmarkt – home of Tünnes and Schäl and Germany's largest puppet theatre.
Museum Ludwig
20th- and 21st-century art on the Domplatte – home to Europe's largest Pop Art and the world's third-largest Picasso collection.
Rheinpark
A riverside park between Deutz and Mülheim on the right bank, heritage-listed since 1989 – with views of the Old Town.
Chocolate Museum Cologne
A cultural-history museum on the Rheinauhafen peninsula with a glass chocolate factory and a walk-in tropical house – one of Cologne's most visited museums.
Straßenbahn-Museum Thielenbruch
A tram museum in a 1906 depot hall – around two dozen Cologne trams from the horse-drawn era to the modern light-rail car.
