Museums

The museum houses the most extensive collection of medieval Cologne paintings and precious works from the time around 1500 and a collection of Flemish, Dutch, German and French paintings from the beginnings of the modern era until 1900.    

The museum (Käthe Kollwitz Museum)  exhibits about 300 drawings, more than 500 prints, posters and sculptures by Käthe Kollwitz.  

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne and shows two millennia of western culture, comprising art from late antiquity to the present.    

The Cathedral treasury  (Domschatz) is home to a rich find of church treasures dating as far back as the 4th century. The treasury works of art are made of gold, silver, bronze and ivory, and include holy relics, liturgical items, textiles, insignias of Archbishops, sculptures from the Middle Ages and Franconian grave finds.

The park (Skulpturenpark Köln) is embedded in the Cologne city landscape and combines permanent and temporary exhibitions of sculptures.

The museum has the widest collection of impressionist and neo-impressionist art in Germany. Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot, Signac and Seurat are all represented by outstanding works, and van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Bonnard, Ensor and Munch herald the way to modernism. Among the most precious objects in the Department of Drawings and Prints are … Read more » “TheWallraf-Richartz-Museum”

The magnificence of the Middle Ages is revealed at the Museum Schnütgen. Masterworks from eight centuries reflect the spirituality and religiosity of this multifaceted era as well as people’s lives and daily routine in Cologne at a time when it was one of Europe’s most powerful cities. Among the priceless objects in the collection are … Read more » “Museum Schnutgen”