List of museums in Cologne
This article lists museums in Cologne . The Rhine metropolis with over 1,000 living and working here, visual artists, several universities, colleges and training institutions in the field of Art, the Central Archive of the international art trade , as well as numerous art and cultural festivals, price data and -verlagen an important historical cities in Germany. Art Cologne and Photokina are among the largest art fairs in the world.
The main collections of the museums in Cologne are the 2000-year history of the city and the Rhineland , as well as applied and visual arts from antiquity to the present . In contrast to many other regions in Germany, the Rhineland has few court collections. Characteristic of the Cologne museum landscape is the importance of the city collections, often based on civic initiatives. Ferdinand Franz Wallraf was one of the first patrons of art and history ; The commitment of the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the foundations of the collectors Irene and Peter Ludwig should also be emphasized . According to the city of Cologne, it is the city with the most museums in Germany, which are financed from the city budget.
Museums
Municipal museums
The museums of the city of Cologne have been administered by the Cologne Museum Service since 1965 . The Museumsdienst is an institution of the Cologne city administration and one of the leading institutions for museum education in Germany. Among other things, he is responsible for the marketing of the museums and is also involved in the strategic development of Cologne as a museum location. The museum service initiates, coordinates and controls overarching projects with a focus on the social dimension of art and culture.
Further museum-related, municipal institutions are the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne , as well as the Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne (KMB) with the Rheinisches Bildarchiv (RBA).
museum | Founded | Sponsor | Type | Visitors (2012) | |
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Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (WRM) | 1824 | Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum Ludwig eV | Art museum | 245.065 | |
Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (MAKK) | 1888 | Overstolzengesellschaft | Art museum | 42,334 | |
Cologne City Museum (KSM)
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1888 | Friends of the Cologne City Museum eV | Local history museum | 48.164 | |
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (RJM)
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1901 | Museum Society RJM eV | Ethnological Museum | 183,337 | |
Museum Schnütgen (MS) | 1906 | Pro Arte Medii Aevi | historical Museum | 92,933 | |
Museum of East Asian Art (MOK) | 1913 | Support group of the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne V. | Art museum | 18,975 | |
Roman-Germanic Museum (RGM) | 1946 | Archaeological Society Cologne eV | Archaeological Museum | 185.715 | |
Museum Ludwig (ML) | 1976 | Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig
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Art museum | 343,953 | |
NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne in the EL-DE House | 1987 | Association EL-DE-Haus eV | historical Museum | 56,080 | |
Archaeological zone with
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Archaeological Museum | 90,564 | |||
total | 1,253,840 |
The Museum of East Asian Art had a good 55,000 visitors in 2010, but was closed for several months for renovation until it reopened in November 2011.
- General Directors of the Museums of the City of Cologne
- Leopold Reidemeister (1954–1957)
- Otto Helmut Förster (1957–1960)
- Gert von der Osten (1960–1975)
- Gerhard Bott (1975–1980)
- Hugo Borger (1981–1990)
Other public museums and collections
museum | Founded | Type | carrier | Visitors (2011) | |
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Collections and museums of the University of Cologne
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Cultural and natural knowledge. Collections | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | |||
Collections of the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS)
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Cultural knowledge. collection | State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
Church museums
museum | Founded | Type | carrier | Visitors (2011) | |
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Kolumba | 1853 | Art museum | Archdiocese of Cologne | ||
Cologne Cathedral Treasury | 2000 | Art museum | Archdiocese of Cologne |
Private museums
museum | Founded | Type | carrier | Visitors (2011) | |
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Wroclaw Collection | 1951 | Local history museum | |||
Fragrance Museum in the Farina House | Special museum of cultural history | Johann Maria Farina across from Jülichs-Platz | |||
4711 museum | Special museum of cultural history | Mäurer & Wirtz GmbH | |||
Deutz AG technical center | 1964 | Technology museum | Deutz AG | 30,000 | |
SK Foundation for Culture | 1976 | Art museum | Sparkasse KölnBonn | ||
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne | 1985 | Art museum | Kreissparkasse Cologne | ||
Monetary History Museum | 1986 | historical Museum | Kreissparkasse Cologne | ||
Rhenish Industrial Railway Museum | 1987 | Technology museum | Nonprofit organization | ||
Fruit museum Gut Leidenhausen | 1988 | Local history museum | |||
Museum of the Cologne Carnival Order | 1991 | Local history museum | Nonprofit organization | ||
Imhoff Chocolate Museum | 1993 | Culinary museum | Lindt & Sprüngli AG | 650,000 | |
Thielenbruch Tram Museum | 1997 | Technology museum | Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG | ||
German Sport & Olympic Museum | 1999 | Sports Museum | German Olympic Sports Confederation | ||
RadioMuseum Cologne | 1999 | Technology museum | Nonprofit organization | ||
Wine Museum Cologne | 2002 | Culinary museum | |||
Cologne Fortress Museum | 2004 | Local history museum | Institute for Fortress Architecture | ||
Cologne Carnival Museum | 2005 | Local history museum | Not for profit society | ||
Cologne Mustard Museum | 2009 | Culinary museum | W. Steffens GmbH | ||
Odysseum Cologne | 2009 | Science center | Sparkasse KölnBonn | ||
Airport Museum Butzweilerhof | Technology museum | Butzweilerhof Foundation | |||
Toy museum | Special museum of cultural history | Klaus Lückert | |||
Museum of Doll History | Special museum of cultural history | Joyce Merlet | |||
Nippes Museum for youth welfare and schools | Nonprofit organization | ||||
Poller Heimatmuseum [1] | 2015 | Local history museum | Hans Burgwinkel |
Museums that are open irregularly or can only be visited by prior arrangement:
- Museum of Thoughtless
- Museum of Action Art
- Beckers Böll artist museum
- Fire Brigade Museum
- Lighter Museum
Closed museums or with a former seat or location in Cologne:
- Museum of Prehistory and Early History
- Beatles Museum, see Beatles Museum Halle
- Küppers beer museum
- Aviation Museum Butzweilerhof
- Cutlery Museum Glaub (1951–1995)
Art and exhibition halls
Municipal art and exhibition halls
Exhibition hall | Founded | subjects | Sponsor | Visitors (2011) | |
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artothek - space for young art | 1973 | Contemporary Arts | Friends of the artothek Cologne |
The Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle (built in 1967 and named after Haubrich in 1979) was demolished in 2002–2003.
Private art and exhibition halls
The over 100 private art and exhibition halls in Cologne also include over 20 non-commercial art spaces and independent art initiatives.
Exhibition hall | Founded | subjects | carrier | Visitors (2011) | |
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The Bridge - Kölnischer Kunstverein | 1839 | Contemporary Arts | Nonprofit organization | ||
Japanese Cultural Institute | 1969 | Japanese art and culture | Japan Foundation | ||
Center for Gay History | 1984 | History of homosexuality | |||
Wagon scale art space | 1985 | Contemporary Arts | |||
Art Salon Cologne | 1994 | Contemporary Arts | Nonprofit organization | ||
Art station Sankt Peter Cologne | 1987 | Contemporary Arts | Parish of Sankt Peter Cologne | ||
Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD) | 1990 | Museum of cultural history | Nonprofit organization | ||
Sculpture Park Cologne | 1997 | Contemporary Arts | Nonprofit organization | ||
European art gallery | Contemporary Arts | ||||
Related Art Museum | Contemporary Arts | ||||
Art house Rhenania | 1987 | Contemporary Arts | |||
Deutz Central Works of Fine Arts | Contemporary Arts | ||||
Beletage | Contemporary Arts | ||||
Lufthansa gallery | Contemporary Arts | ||||
Forum for photography | 2003 | photography |
Museums in the Cologne region
In addition to Cologne and Bonn (→ see list of museums ), the city of Leverkusen (→ see list of museums ) and the Rhein-Erft-Kreis and Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis districts belong to the Cologne / Bonn region .
Rhein-Erft district
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Bedburg
- Rosengart Museum
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Bergheim
- Berendes Automobile and Technical Museum
- Mining museum
- Mauseum (2500 mouse objects)
- "Chateau Henri" pipe museum
- Piano Museum Haus Eller
- Paffendorf Castle with information center for lignite
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Bruehl (Rhineland)
- Ceramic Museum
- Max Ernst Museum
- Museum of Everyday History
- Augustusburg and Falkenlust castles
- Tax museum and financial history collection of the Federal Finance Academy
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Cheeky
- Keramion Foundation - center for modern and historical ceramics
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Kerpen
- House for Art and History
- Kolping Museum
- Museum HJ Baum
- Villa Trips - Museum of Racing History
Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
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Bergisch Gladbach
- Bergisches Museum for mining, craft and trade
- LVR-Industriemuseum: Alte Dombach paper museum
- Paper history collection of the Zanders Foundation
- Bergisch Gladbach School Museum - Cüppers Collection
See also
- Long Night of Museums
- Art Cologne , Germany's largest art fair
- List of museums in North Rhine-Westphalia
- List of museums in Bonn
- List of museums in Düsseldorf
literature
- Monika Salchert: 111 museums in NRW that you have to see , Emons, Cologne 2013
- Martin Oehlen: Museums in Cologne , DuMont, Cologne 2004
- Hiltrud Kier : Small Art History of Cologne , CH Beck, Munich 2001
- Robert Lebeck : All truth! All lie! Photography and Reality in the 19th Century , Verlag der Kunst, Amsterdam 1996
- Yvonne u. Thomas Plum: Art, Cocoa and Carnival. What museums in and around Cologne show , Bachem, Cologne 1995
- Hugo Borger : The Cologne Museums , Vista Point, Cologne 1990
Individual evidence
- ↑ Culture Development Plan Cologne (PDF; 198 kB), City of Cologne, January 15, 2008
- ^ Simone Mergen: Looking back: Traditions of the Cologne museum landscape . koelnarchitektur.de. March 6, 2002. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ^ Cologne museums. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
- ^ Museum Service Cologne: Mission Statement . Museum Service Cologne. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Museum Ludwig remains Spitze , City of Cologne, Office for Press and Public Relations, February 14, 2012
- ^ University of Cologne in the database of university museums and collections in Germany by the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology
- ^ German Sport University Cologne in the database of university museums and collections in Germany by the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology
- ↑ Chocolate Museum, koeln.de
- ↑ Museums in the Rhein-Erft district ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- www.museenkoeln.de
- Museums in Cologne , koeln.de
- Museum Night Cologne
- culture portal
- Cultural heritage Cologne of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne
- culture server NRW
- Rheinschiene @ktuell - funding project for the independent art scene in the Rhineland