Museum Ludwig
20th- and 21st-century art on the Domplatte – home to Europe's largest Pop Art and the world's third-largest Picasso collection.
The Museum Ludwig presents art of the 20th and 21st centuries and ranks among Europe's most important art museums. It sits right beside the cathedral on the Domplatte.
At a glance
- Focus: modern & contemporary art
- Pop Art: largest collection in Europe
- Picasso: third-largest collection worldwide
- Photography: around 70,000 works
- Exhibition space: ~9,000 m²
Collection
Alongside Pop Art and Picasso, the museum holds one of the foremost collections of German Expressionism as well as key works of the Russian avant-garde.
History
It grew out of the Expressionist collection of Cologne citizen Josef Haubrich. When the collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig donated around 350 mainly Pop Art works to the city, a dedicated museum was founded in 1976. The same building today also houses the Cologne Philharmonic and the Filmforum NRW.
Source: Wikipedia · retrieved 2026-06-23
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