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

Museum Ludwig

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

Roman-Germanic Museum

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)
	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) Zündorf fortified tower	1888	Friends of the Cologne City Museum eV	Local history museum	48.164
	Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (RJM) JuniorMuseum	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) Agfa Photo Historama	1976	Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum Ludwig eV Art foundation in the Museum Ludwig Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation	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 Mikveh Praetorium synagogue Ubiermonument			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

Castle Wahn

	museum	Founded	Type	carrier	Visitors (2011)
	Collections and museums of the University of Cologne Algae culture collection Geomuseum herbarium Instrument collection Mineralogical-petrological collection Coin collection Papyrus Collection Theater studies collection Prehistoric and Protohistoric Collection		Cultural and natural knowledge. Collections	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Collections of the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) Carl and Liselott Diem Archive (CuLDA)		Cultural knowledge. collection	State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Church museums

Kolumba

	museum	Founded	Type	carrier	Visitors (2011)
	Kolumba	1853	Art museum	Archdiocese of Cologne
	Cologne Cathedral Treasury	2000	Art museum	Archdiocese of Cologne

Private museums

The Imhoff Chocolate Museum is the largest museum in Cologne with around 650,000 visitors a year.

	museum	Founded	Type	carrier	Visitors (2011)
	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 German dance archive Photographic collection	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)
	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

Hall ten of the CAP Cologne

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)
	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

• Bedburg
  • Rosengart Museum
• 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

Max Ernst Museum

• 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
• Cheeky
  • Keramion Foundation - center for modern and historical ceramics
• Kerpen
  • House for Art and History
  • Kolping Museum
  • Museum HJ Baum
  • Villa Trips - Museum of Racing History

Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

• 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

1. ↑ Culture Development Plan Cologne (PDF; 198 kB), City of Cologne, January 15, 2008
2. ^ Simone Mergen: Looking back: Traditions of the Cologne museum landscape . koelnarchitektur.de. March 6, 2002. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
3. ^ Cologne museums. Retrieved November 11, 2018 . 
4. ^ Museum Service Cologne: Mission Statement . Museum Service Cologne. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
5. ↑ ^{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
6. ^ University of Cologne in the database of university museums and collections in Germany by the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology
7. ^ German Sport University Cologne in the database of university museums and collections in Germany by the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology
8. ↑ Chocolate Museum, koeln.de
9. ↑ 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

Commons : Museums in Cologne  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 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

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