Highlights
Top 10 Attractions in Mannheim
The most important landmarks, museums and photo motifs of the City of Squares. From the Water Tower and Palace to the Kunsthalle and Luisenpark, the SAP Arena and the Communications Tower. Click any card for details and tickets.
Mannheim Palace
One of Europe's largest Baroque palaces, now home to the University of Mannheim, with a lavish palace museum, library hall and ceremonial courtyard.
Mannheim Water Tower
Mannheim's defining landmark, a 60-metre water tower from 1889 set in the Friedrichsplatz with Art Nouveau fountains and rose gardens.
Luisenpark
One of Europe's most beautiful parks, 41 hectares with a Gondoletta lake, tropical plant house, butterfly hall, penguins and the new Bundesgartenschau grounds.
Kunsthalle Mannheim
One of Germany's most important art museums, spectacularly reopened in 2018, with works from Manet and Beckmann through to contemporary sculpture.
Mannheim National Theatre
Germany's oldest municipal theatre, founded in 1779 and the venue of Schiller's Die Raeuber premiere, now home to opera, drama, dance and youth productions.
Mannheim Telecommunications Tower
The 217-metre Fernmeldeturm in Luisenpark, a defining feature of Mannheim's skyline and once home to Germany's tallest revolving restaurant.
Technoseum
A large hands-on museum of technology and labour, with steam engines, looms, robots and five floors of walk-through industrial history.
Popakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
A striking wave-shaped building by the harbour, home to Germany's first university for pop music and music business and a pillar of Mannheim's UNESCO City of Music status.
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
Four museum venues on Toulonplatz, covering archaeology, world cultures, city history and major special exhibitions from mummies to Romanticism.
SAP Arena
Mannheim's 15,000-seat multipurpose arena, home of Adler Mannheim ice hockey and Rhein-Neckar Loewen handball, plus world-class concert tours.