Köln entdecken

Museum Ludwig is an art museum in Cologne housing modern and contemporary art, including one of Europe's largest Picasso collections and extensive holdings of Pop Art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. It occupies a distinctive building with an undulating roof next to Cologne Cathedral, completed in 1986.

TimeRide Cologne is a virtual-reality attraction on Alter Markt in the old town, where visitors wear VR headsets for guided journeys through past eras of the city, including a recreation of 1920s Cologne. The venue also offers themed experiences such as a Cologne Cathedral tour and seasonal editions.

Great St. Martin Church is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne's old town, its foundations resting on a former Roman chapel on an island in the Rhine. The current buildings, including the crossing tower that is a landmark of the Old Town skyline, were built between 1150 and 1250, after earlier use as a Benedictine monastery.

The NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne is a museum on National Socialism housed in the EL-DE Haus, the former regional Gestapo headquarters. Built in the 1930s as commercial premises, the building's basement held prison cells where detainees' wall inscriptions can still be seen; the museum opened in 1988.

Cologne Zoo opened in 1860, making it the third-oldest zoo in Germany. Spread across more than 20 hectares, it houses over 10,000 animals of more than 850 species, along with an aquarium, and takes part in international breeding programmes for endangered species.