One of the world's most significant photo-historical collections — nearly 20,000 cameras and over 12,000 photographs, now housed at Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Listed Brutalist church from 1968 with a striking tetrahedral form, now operating as the 'Kulturkirche Ost' cultural venue for readings, music, and cabaret.
A cinema on Hohenzollernring in Cologne – with a classic movie-theatre feel, solid picture and sound, and a snack selection that includes vegan options.
Family-run cinema in the heart of Cologne's Ehrenfeld district – with a bar, bistro, beer garden, and a programme ranging from original-language screenings to Pram Cinema.
Among surviving cathedral libraries, considered the most significant — the Archdiocese of Cologne's central library, with roots in the 6th/7th century.
Hub for film culture combining a deliberately non-commercial cinema, film education, and professional training — housed in a former freight depot building from 1891.
Two-screen art-house cinema in Cologne's Eigelstein quarter near Ebertplatz – art-house films and subtitled original versions, honoured with the BKM top prize.
Research and documentation centre for dance in the Mediapark – combining an archive, library, video collection and museum tracing the history of stage dance.
Cologne's grand late-Gothic festival hall from the 15th century — home to carnival sessions, congresses, concerts, and the annual proclamation of the Cologne Carnival Trio.
French cultural institute in Cologne's Südstadt — one of the first and now one of the last of its kind in western Germany; housed in Riphahn's 1952 building.
In 1953 this stage hosted Germany's first live TV broadcast of a theatre play — the Millowitsch family's dialect theatre, now the Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz.
The OFF Broadway on Zülpicher Straße is a Cologne arthouse cinema with two screens, showing international film art and independent movies – preferably in the original version with subtitles.
The theatre square in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord, fronting the Opera House and Schauspielhaus, centred on the long-neglected Opernbrunnen by Jürgen Hans Grümmer.
One of Cologne's twelve great Romanesque churches — known for its trefoil-shaped trichoral apse at Neumarkt and celebrated as the city's premier music church.
Built in 1963 in the Mülheim district, the Stadthalle Köln is a versatile venue for concerts, Carnival sessions and trade fairs, holding around 1,450 standing and 1,053 seated visitors.
Award-winning arthouse cinema in Cologne-Lindenthal showing European film art, international narrative cinema and its own strand of children's films – housed in a 1950s theatre building.
Deconsecrated orphanage church in Cologne-Sülz by Dominikus and Gottfried Böhm — featuring a 'children's orchestra' of 128 octagonal stained-glass windows.
