Gallery · Altstadt-Nord, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig is a museum of 20th-century and contemporary art in Cologne, between the cathedral, the Rhine and the central station, founded on Peter and Irene Ludwig's 1976 donation to the city.
Why go
Museum Ludwig is a museum of 20th-century and contemporary art in Cologne, close to the cathedral and opposite the central station. Its history page says it was founded in 1976, when Peter and Irene Ludwig signed a donation contract with the City of Cologne giving 350 works of modern art on condition that the city build a museum for them; the building by Peter Busmann and Godfrid Haberer opened in 1986, shared at first with the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, and has housed only Museum Ludwig since the two were separated. Its collection page names American Pop Art, German Expressionism, photography and works by Picasso among its focuses, and traces the collection back to Josef Haubrich's gift to the city in 1946. The museum's FAQ says tickets are sold in its online shop or at the cash desk, and that purchased tickets cannot be exchanged or returned.
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Church
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral, the Kölner Dom, is the Gothic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Cologne beside the city's central station, begun in 1248 and completed in 1880.
0 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Bridge
Hohenzollern Bridge
The Hohenzollern Bridge is the railway bridge with a footpath and cycle path across the Rhine in Cologne, between the old town by the cathedral and Deutz, built from 1907 to 1911.
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Museum
Chocolate Museum (Cologne)
The Chocolate Museum (Schokoladenmuseum Köln) is a privately owned museum of the history and production of cocoa and chocolate at the tip of the Rheinauhafen in Cologne, opened in 1993.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Aachen Cathedral
Aachen Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia, built around the domed Carolingian octagon of St Mary's Church, with a Gothic choir hall added to the east.
64 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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