There is a wonderful planetarium in the city – Carl-Zeiss Planetarium, which is also worth visiting with children. Here young visitors can admire the starry sky through powerful telescopes, see modern astronomical equipment, and listen to cognitive lectures on distant planets. The planetarium has an excellent cinema, which shows interesting films about space. More recently, the planetarium has become a permanent venue for thematic events dedicated to music.
The Botanischer Garten remains the most popular holiday destination for nature lovers. The tour of this botanical garden promises to be incredibly fascinating for children of any age. On its territory, there is an excellent garden in which the most popular fresh farm vegetables are grown and exotic pavilions with cacti and rare flowers. There is also a typical Japanese garden with a pond where fish live. For visitors of the garden, there are many beautiful recreation areas.
There is also a wonderful zoological garden in Bochum – Tierpark und Fossilium Bochum. It is located not far from the city center. Among the main inhabitants of this zoo are flamingos and various kinds of waterfowl that live in a beautiful pond, rabbits and colorful parakeets, as well as goats that children especially like. Children are allowed to pet and feed many animals in the zoo. Among the most unusual inhabitants of the zoological garden are the Galapagos turtles. The zoo has an excellent aquarium with a rich collection of inhabitants of the underwater world, as well as a terrarium containing rare species of iguanas and lizards.
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