Art museum

Käthe Kollwitz Museum

since 1985

4.6(352)· Google

Home to the world's largest Käthe Kollwitz collection, this Cologne museum brings together her drawings, prints, and all 15 known bronze sculptures.

Kolumba

since 1853

4.5(1,498)· Google

Peter Zumthor's landmark brick building for the Archdiocese of Cologne's art museum, built over the ruins of the war-destroyed church of St. Columba.

Museum of Applied Arts (MAKK)

since 1888

4.3(1,431)· Google

Cologne museum of applied arts and design in the Schwarz-Bernard building — once dismissed as sterile, later celebrated as a 'third way' in postwar architecture.

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Museum Ludwig

since 1976

4.5(9,493)· Google

20th- and 21st-century art on Cologne's Cathedral Plateau — home to Europe's largest Pop Art collection and the world's third-largest Picasso collection.

Museum Schnütgen

since 1910

4.6(394)· Google

One of Europe's richest medieval collections, housed in the Romanesque basilica of St. Cecilia in Cologne's historic city centre.

St. Cäcilien – Museum Schnütgen

since 801

4.5(29)· Google

One of Cologne's twelve great Romanesque churches — home to the Museum Schnütgen for medieval art since 1956.

St. Kolumba

since 1150

4.8(65)· Google

'Madonna in the Ruins' — a medieval chapel enclosed within the ruins of a Gothic parish church, now embraced by the Kolumba art museum.

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud

4.6(3,469)· Google

Cologne's oldest museum — home to the world's most extensive collection of medieval painting and Germany's largest Impressionist collection.