Cologne Culture and Sights

A look at everyday life in the Cologne of yesteryear. In 1999, the German Chancellor showed his VIP guests how the old Romans used to live: the group of presidents and heads of state was allowed to din...

The flagship of the Cologne museum fleet: the masterpieces of pop art and contemporary global art enjoy an international reputation. Peter Ludwig collected medieval handwriting and pre-Columbian artwor...

The sea lions are fed in a way fit for the circus, new elephant enclosure. 7000 animals roam around here. The lions and the leopards have a large enclosure and the baboons a climbing rock. The elephant...

Everything you need to know about the origins and culture of chocolate. Everything revolves around chocolate here. You can stroll through a botanical garden with cacao trees. After that, not only can y...

A delightful square featuring old gabled houses, beer gardens and fish fountains. Relax in the beer gardens and let your gaze drift over to Groß St. Martin and the Stapelhaus. In the Middle Ages all tr...

Furniture and fashion: objects chronicling the history of design and craftwork. Arts, crafts and design from all eras: this well-presented collection includes art-nouveau porcelain, wedding dresses fro...

Unusually, you will find four whale ribs here. Modelled on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, built on the ruins of the Roman Capitol Temple and consecrated in 1065. This Salic building is consid...

Late-Gothic tower and Renaissance facade. Contemporary sculptors decorated the façade with 124 statues featuring portraits of famous people such as Karl Marx and Heinrich Böll in the course of the reco...

Great painters are on show here. He has been the doyen of Cologne's art trade for three decades: Michael Werner made artists like Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby and A. R. ...