Cologne Carnival Museum

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The Cologne Carnival Museum

The Cologne Carnival Museum is the largest carnival museum in Germany . It is located in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne and is only open irregularly once a month.

History and meaning

The Cologne Carnival is both a historical and a large cultural festival with national significance. The interest group “Festival Committee of the Cologne Carnival of 1823 eV” brings together 103 societies. There will also be celebrations in around 60 other clubs, music groups and Veedels communities. Around 1.3 million viewers experience the Cologne Rose Monday Parade every year , which is the largest parade in Germany with at least 10,000 participants. Around 500 meetings and balls in the city's halls are celebrated within the carnival session. These dimensions make it clear what great importance the Cologne Carnival has for Cologne residents and their guests from all over the world. With the support of modern presentation techniques, the museum realizes the requirement of a museum review of the carnival tradition of Cologne on a high scientific level.

With the help of numerous sponsors, the ambitious wish could be implemented. The sponsors include a. the Heimatmuseum Köln eV association (Great Senate), the Rhineland Regional Association , the Sparkasse KölnBonn , the Kreissparkasse Köln , as well as numerous other private donors.

history

Opened on June 19, 2005, the Cologne Carnival Museum today has a total area of ​​more than 1400 m² on which the history and diversity of the carnival from its beginnings to the present is presented.

With the opening of the Cologne Carnival Museum, a long dream of the Cologne carnivalists has come true. Over the decades there have been several attempts to set up a museum in Cologne that shows the diversity of this great festival. There was already a small museum in the former rooms of the festival committee of the Cologne Carnival of 1823 eV (Antwerpener Strasse) in downtown Cologne.

For the newly founded museum, all of the exhibits, some of which were previously stored decentrally by the carnival associations, were collected and - supplemented by rare items - combined into a unique collection.

exhibition

The museum is divided into two areas with the exhibition on the history of the carnival and the adventure area.

Historical exhibition

The historical exhibition deals with the history of the carnival, which is conveyed primarily through a wide variety of films and pictures. The time of antiquity , the Middle Ages , the Weimar Republic and National Socialism is represented in this area, among other things. A large number of historical documents and documents, one of the most valuable of which is the "Protocol Book of the Festordnenden Comitees" from 1827, can be viewed. Historical exhibits as well as modern audio and video units convey the interesting aspects of the respective era.

Experience area

The adventure area is located in the museum hall. Guided tours have been offered since the museum opened.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The jeckste Museum of Cologne. In: koeln.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ COLOGNE CARNIVAL MUSEUM. In: koelnerkarneval.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c The Cologne Carnival Museum Tradition - Fascination - Diversity. (No longer available online.) In: kk-museum.de. May 5, 2005, archived from the original on January 4, 2009 ; Retrieved May 21, 2012 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 41.3 "  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 55.8"  E