Kolumba Köln

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, which was founded in 1853 as the Diözesanmuseum Köln. Two thousand years of occidental culture can be experienced in one house. In art with works from late antiquity to the present. In terms of architecture, the interaction of the war ruins of the late Gothic church of St. Kolumba, the chapel "Madonna in the Ruins" (1950), the unique archaeological excavation (1973-1976) and the new building designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Kolumba is curated by Stefan Kraus, Ulrike Surmann, Marc Steinmann and Barbara von Flüe.