Dusseldorf offers its guests a lot to see: world famous museums like the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, jewels of baroque-style buildings like St. Andreas, the Burgplatz, which has received an award as one of the finest German squares from the post-war years, opens up to the Rhine with the old castle tower, within whose walls 2000 years of sailing romance are revived. Right next to it is the Radschlägerbrunnen and Düsseldorf’s symbolic city founder’s monument in the shadow of St. Lambertus, whose crooked, twisted tower still leads to speculations even today. Only a few steps away, Elector Jan Wellem greets you seated high on his horse in front of the old city hall. 

Famous Germans were at home in Düsseldorf, as institutions like the Goethe-Museum (in Jägerhof Palace), the Heinrich-Heine-Institut, the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule remind us. Eighteen museums, the late-Baroque Benrath Palace, more than 20 theatres, the opera, many concert halls, about a hundred galleries and regular art exhibitions of international standing make Düsseldorf a major centre of art and culture. The museums in the Altstadt form what has been christened an "art axis" which runs parallel to the Rhine, making it easy for the city visitor to find the ones he is interested in. The Opera House, the Tonhalle (concert hall) and many theatres are also to be found within the city centre, tempting even the most impulsive of people to enjoy some culture.