As one of the three major museums in Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum contains a gallery with fine art representing the medieval period to early 20th century. The museum's collection began to come together in 1824, although it didn't move to its current location until 2001. In that year, it also gained a comprehensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works on permanent loan from Gérard Corboud. Consider getting a Museum Card, which allows access to this and many other museums in the city. With our international travel planner, Cologne attractions like Wallraf-Richartz Museum can be center stage of your vacation plans, and you can find out about other attractions like it, unlike it, near it, and miles away.
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Three extensive floors each dedicated to a separate era of painting. Start at the top to view the outstanding collection of late 19 - early 20 century art such as the impressionists. Next floor down..... more
Three extensive floors each dedicated to a separate era of painting. Start at the top to view the outstanding collection of late 19 - early 20 century art such as the impressionists. Next floor down..... more »
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very good museum with many things to see.beautiful collection of arts .we spent three hours here enjoying the beauty of this meseum.
very good museum with many things to see.beautiful collection of arts .we spent three hours here enjoying the beauty of this meseum. more »
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Although it is not completely open right now (one floor is under construction when I visited) I still really enjoyed it! The first floor is dedicated to old religious paintings. The second floor was my favourite because it had paintings from the baroque period. I particularly enjoyed reading about how paintings are analysed in order to understand how they were painted as well as if they are real.
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I happened upon this museum, and I'm happy I did. It has three floors (there are wheelchair friendly lifts) of exhibitions, which were very good. All artwork has German and English descriptions, which was helpful, but it would have been even better if I'd been offered an audio option at the start. Lovely little shop at the entrance. €8 entrance fee.
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