Museum of Applied Arts
Colónia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Suggest Place to Visit
6585
Track to location with GPS |
 |
The Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (German for Museum für Angewandte Kunst, abbreviated MAKK) is a museum for decorative arts in Cologne. The collections include jewelry, china, furniture, weapons, and architectural exhibits. Until 1987 it was called the Kunstgewerbemuseum.
In 1888 the city of Cologne decided to found a museum for applied arts. The core of the exhibition originally came from the collections of Ferdinand Franz Wallraf (1748–1824) and Matthias Joseph de Noël (1782–1849), and the exhibition was soon expanded to include foundations. The original location of the museum was a neo-Gothic building on Hansaring, which was built in 1900 and destroyed by bombs in 1943.
The simple Black Bernhard building made of red brick stands on the site of a former monastery, the shape of which is still shaped by the floor plan and the square courtyard. The late Gothic Minorite Church on the south side is still preserved. The inner courtyard wall on the north side is almost completely glazed and serves as a "shop window" for the museum. A low, modest anteroom leads to the very large entrance hall and the central staircase of the museum.
The museum has a large collection (over 100,000 objects) of European applied arts from the 10th century to the present day. This is arranged chronologically by epoch and includes furniture, decorative rugs, small sculptures, dinnerware, luxury items, and decorative items. For reasons of conservation, the textile collection is only shown in short-term special exhibitions.
The museum is particularly known for its collection of modern designs. An exhibition with design of the 20th century, which was created by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in 2008, extends over two floors of one of the wings. It offers a thematic and chronological display of furniture, lamps, telephones, televisions, cameras, radios and household items by designers such as Ray Eames, Dieter Rams, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass and Joe Colombo. These are exhibited alongside visual works of art by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Victor Vasarely, Jesús Rafael Soto, Piet Mondrian and Günther Uecker to show the historical relationships between art and design.
Some solo exhibitions include:
A Woman of the Apocalypse by Tilman Riemenschneider (1495)
A tapestry, allegory of the Africa region (before 1742)
A writing cabinet with chinoiserie from the workshop of David Roentgen (1777–78)
Gerrit Rietveld: Rood-Blauwe Stoel (1918)
Piet Mondrian: Composition III (1920)
Marcel Breuer: Liège (1936)
Ettore Sottsass for Memphis: Carlton, Regal (1981)
Naoto Fukasawa: CD Player (1999)
The museum also hosts special exhibitions.
closed on Mondays
Tuesday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Comments
We don´t have yet any comments about:
Museum of Applied Arts
Museum of Applied Arts
Be the first to leave a comment as it is very important to inform other people
Outros locais a visitar
Within a radius of 20 km from:Museum of Applied Arts
Kolumba |
| 0,2 Km |
 |
Roman-germanic Museum |
| 0,3 Km |
 |
Perfume museum |
| 0,3 Km |
 |
Farina opposite |
| 0,3 Km |
 |
Cologne City Museum |
| 0,3 Km |
 |
Wallraf-richartz-museum & Fondation Corboud |
| 0,4 Km |
 |
Museum Ludwig |
| 0,4 Km |
 |
Schnütgen Museum |
| 0,6 Km |
 |
Käthe Kollwitz Museum |
| 0,7 Km |
 |
Trinity Church |
| 0,8 Km |
 |
Imhoff Chocolate Museum |
| 1,1 Km |
 |
German Sport & Olympic Museum |
| 1,2 Km |
 |
Photographic collection of the sk Foundation Culture |
| 1,2 Km |
 |
Museum of East Asian Art |
| 2,1 Km |
 |
Sculpture Park Cologne |
| 2,1 Km |
 |
Museum of The Cologne Carnival |
| 4,0 Km |
 |
Hotel reservation near Museum of Applied Arts within a radius of 20 km
Why to book with FIND HOTEL ONLINE
The best prices
Our partnerships with the world´s largest operators offer research on the best market prices.
More options
At Rotas Turisticos you can book the hotel, buy the air ticket, book the transfer from the airport to the hotel and vice versa, book the local excursions, rent the car, take travel insurance and consult the places to visit and where to go.
Holiday Tips & Destinations
Hundreds of holiday destinations with all the options that allow you to easily choose the destination that best suits your dream vacation.
FIND HOTEL ONLINE
Links
Follow us on social networks
