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Duisburg is a city in Germany's Rhineland, the fifth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen) in the nation's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its 500,000 inhabitants make it Germany's 15th-largest city .
- Lehmbruck Museum. In the folds of the Immanuel Kant Park the Lehmbruck Museum is devoted mostly to sculpture, and tracks the career of the Duisburg-based artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck.
- Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord. In the Meiderich district in the north of the city is a disused steelworks that has been turned into a public park. The facility shut down in 1985, and so in the early 90s, instead of demolishing the blast furnaces, conveyor bridges and chimney stacks the landscape architect Peter Latz decided to keep them.
- Inner Harbour. Anyone with an affinity for industrial architecture will want to spend some time in Duisburg’s Inner Harbour, which was the lifeblood for the industrial city up to the 1960s.
- Museum der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt. In a lovely Art Nouveau public baths from the 1910s is a museum about the social and technical history of inland navigation.
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- Tiger & Turtle. Tiger & Turtle is a unique interactive art installation. It consists of winding, twisting staircases made of galvanized steel. It sits on a man-made hill, constructed out of waste from a former zinc-smelting factory and rubble from abandoned factories.
- Landschaftpark. Landschaftpark is an abandoned steel facility that has been transformed into an awesome park. Instead of dismantling factory infrastructure like sewage canals, conveyor bridges, blast furnaces, bunkers, rail tracks, etc., they were re-purposed into walkways, gardens, a scuba diving center, and an observation deck.
- Museum Küppersmühle. Museum Küppersmühle is a modern art museum that proudly displays precious artwork by gifted German artists, including Sigmar Polke, Abraham David Christian, Georg Baselitz, and Candida Höfer.
- Sechs-Seen-Platte. If you wish to take a break from Duisburg’s concrete, industrial landscape, you don’t need to go far at all. Sechs-Seen-Platte is a series of six interconnected lakes, which are so pretty that you would find it hard to believe that the area used to be a gravel pit.
Explore the former coal-mining region of the Ruhr Area, now a vibrant cultural melting pot with 1,000 industrial monuments, 200 museums and 250 festivals. Discover Duisburg's attractions, such as the Landscape Park, the Tiger & Turtle and the UNESCO site Zollverein Coal Mine.
Duisburg Travel Guide: Top 28 Things to Do in Duisburg, Germany. Welcome! Ready to discover Duisburg? Tucked away in the western part of Germany, this industrious city might not be on every traveler’s radar, but it’s packed with surprises that defy expectations.
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