Knowledge & learning in Hamburg

Altona Fish Market

Hamburg

Sundays 5–9:30 — fish, eel, hollering hawkers, followed by breakfast in the old auction hall.

Old Elbe Tunnel

Hamburg

Pedestrian tunnel under the Elbe, 426 m long, with vintage lifts that once carried horses and cars.

Bucerius Kunst Forum

Hamburg

Private foundation art space on Rathausmarkt, three to four high-caliber rotating shows a year from antiquity to classical modernism.

Hamburg City Hall

Hamburg

1897 sandstone palace with 647 rooms, seat of the Hamburg senate and parliament.

Hamburg Stadtpark

Hamburg

Designed as a 1914 people's park — summer open-air concerts, the Planetarium and an awful lot of Hamburgers with grills and blankets.

Millerntor Stadium

Hamburg

Cult stadium on Heiligengeistfeld, 29,500 seats — skull flags, antifascist home games, weekday stadium tours.

Mönckebergstrasse

Hamburg

1908 retail street between city hall and central station — department stores flanked by St. Petri and St. Jacobi.

Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Hamburg

389 hectares of park-cemetery since 1877 — mausoleums, ponds, sculptures, bus lines crossing through — unusually peaceful.

St. Katharinen

Hamburg

One of Hamburg's five main churches, 14th-century Gothic nave with a Baroque tower top — right by Speicherstadt.

St. Nicholas Church, Hamburg

Hamburg

Tierpark Hagenbeck

Hamburg

Landungsbrücken

Hamburg

Floating piers with U- and S-Bahn stops, harbor tours, the tide gauge and souvenir kiosks.

Barmbek

Hamburg

Bischofsturm

Hamburg

Bismarck Mausoleum

Hamburg

BLEICHEN

Hamburg

Brahms-Museum

Hamburg

Cap San Diego

Hamburg

Chilehaus

Hamburg

Fritz Höger's 1924 office building shaped like a ship's bow, 4.8 million bricks — UNESCO heritage.

Deichtorhallen

Hamburg

1911 market halls, now Hamburg's contemporary art venues — Haus der Photographie + Halle für aktuelle Kunst.

Deutsches Hafenmuseum

Hamburg

Dialogue in the Dark

Hamburg

Elbgaustrasse station

Hamburg

Elbphilharmonie

Hamburg

Herzog & de Meuron concert hall built on top of a 1960s cocoa warehouse, with a public plaza 37 m up.

German Salt Museum

Hamburg

The German Salt Museum stands on the site of the former Lüneburg saltworks, which produced salt for over a thousand years and made the city a major medieval trading hub. Opened in 1989 and listed as an architectural monument in Lower Saxony, the museum traces the history of salt production from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Original industrial equipment, evaporation pans, and workers' tools bring the daily life of the salt-makers vividly to life. Lüneburg owed almost its entire wealth to this white gold.

Igel

Hamburg

Langenfelde station

Hamburg

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Hamburg

The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) is one of the most significant applied arts museums in the German-speaking world. Founded in 1877 — the fifth of its kind in the German-speaking countries — it holds wide-ranging collections spanning European, ancient, and Asian fine and applied arts. The museum building at Steintorplatz in the St. Georg district, directly adjacent to Hamburg central station, is itself a protected Gründerzeit heritage monument. Until 1970, it also housed a trade school; from 1876 to 1905, it was home to the Johanneum grammar school. Today run by a public-law foundation, the museum covers an unusually broad spectrum — from ceramics and textiles to fashion, Jugendstil, and digital culture.

Planten un Blomen

Hamburg

City park hosting Europe's largest Japanese garden and summer water-light concerts on the lake.

Reeperbahn

Hamburg

St. Pauli's main strip of clubs, bars and theatres — once Beatles territory, now a festival route.