a) Upper left: VISIR image taken in the 12.8 μm filter. The 1 − σ RMS is approximately 0.57 mJy pixel^-1. The plus signs indicate the locations of the MIR peaks M1 through M9, discussed in this paper. b) Upper right: K-band continuum image of NGC 7552, composed from the reconstructed SINFONI data cube. c) Lower left: reconstructed and continuum subtracted SINFONI Pa-β image. d) Lower right: reconstructed and continuum subtracted SINFONI Br-γ image. All four figures indicate the image scale in arcseconds (1″ corresponds to 95 pc) with respect to the radio continuum center (see Table 2 and Sect. 2.4).