North Rhine-Westphalia travel guides

The Aasee promenade is Münster's waterside commons: a paved path where walkers, runners, cyclists and inline skaters share the shoreline, with sculpture landmarks, lawns and boat activity along the way. One user-submitted running loop logs 35.6 km and 110 m of ascent, so pick your route by the time you actually have.

St. Paulus Dom is Münster's defining landmark and an active cathedral. This guide covers the operator's opening hours, free entry to the church, the barrier-free clock portal, the 1540 astronomical clock, the 13th-century cloister, market days on Domplatz, and a suggested time budget.

The Westfälisches Pferdemuseum sits inside the Allwetterzoo Münster rather than in the city centre, and the operator states that zoo admission already includes the museum, its special exhibitions and horse shows. This guide explains the two seasonal opening windows, the thousand-square-metre permanent exhibition, the simulator stations and the arena programme.

Münster's historic core is compact, flat and ringed by a car-free promenade that works as an orientation spine. This itinerary links the Prinzipalmarkt and Rathaus with the Dom and Lambertikirche, crosses to the Schloss and its botanical garden, and keeps the Aasee as a flexible afternoon extension.

Münster's sunset is a waterside-and-ring decision rather than one fixed viewpoint: the open west-facing Aasee for the sky, the tree-lined Promenade for the walk in and out. This guide covers orientation, forecast habits, a labelled suggested walk and what to do when the sky stays flat.

The Film Museum Düsseldorf occupies a converted Carlstadt building at Schulstraße 4, a short walk south of the Old Town. It holds the state film collection for North Rhine-Westphalia, a permanent exhibition covering 2,200 square metres, an archive and a house cinema with a 1929 Welte organ. This guide explains what is inside, when the museum is open, and how the library and screenings work.

The Hetjens – Deutsches Keramikmuseum holds ceramics from around the world, with exhibits up to 8,000 years old, and its collection has been publicly accessible in Düsseldorf since 1909. It sits at Schulstraße 4 in the city centre, which makes it an easy stop within a walking day rather than a separate excursion.

The Hofgarten is the green corridor through central Düsseldorf, running from Jacobistraße and Schloss Jägerhof to Heinrich-Heine-Allee, where it meets the Altstadt, the Königsallee and the route to the Rhine. Treat it as a walking route, and treat the Goethe Museum inside Schloss Jägerhof as a separate, ticketed interior.