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Chocolate Museum

Although Willy Wonka's fat unfortunate friend Augustus Gloop was from nearby Düsseldorf, chocolate lovers will find their favourite chocolate museum (or mmmuseum as they call it) here in Cologne's Rheinhafen. Read_on (No Comments)

City Museum

You can satisfy all your questions about Cologne here, and find some interesting titbits of local lore. There are relics from the Middle Ages, photographs from WWII and an exhibit on the damage the city sustained during the war. Read_on (No Comments)

Cologne Historical Archive

Housing one of the most extensive collection of town archives in Germany, the Cologne Historical Archive is a repository of more than one thousand years of records. Read_on (No Comments)

EL-DE Haus

The city’s former Gestapo HQ has been transformed into a museum tracing the roots and progress of National Socialism in Cologne Read_on (No Comments)

Farina Haus

This is the birthplace of Eau de Cologne (literally: Cologne water), an important part of the history of the city. The museum focuses on the history of the Farina family, and is quite interesting. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum Ludwig

Devoted to modern art from the beginning of the 20th century onwards, the vast and airy Ludwig Museum is most famous for its Pop Art collection, the largest outside the United States. Read_on (No Comments)

Praetorium

This half hidden museum often gets overlooked and that's a shame, because it houses some of the more striking and best-preserved remnants of Cologne's Roman period. Read_on (No Comments)

Rautenstrauch-Jöst Museum

Sedate and sparse, this museum is for enthusiasts of Asiatic religion and traditional art and crafts. Read_on (No Comments)

Römisch-Germanisches Museum

Originally part of the Roman and Germanic department of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, this intriguing museum was built in 1974 on the walls of a Roman villa unearthed during WWII. Read_on (No Comments)

Schnütgen Museum

This museum is housed inside an old church, and is a treasure-house of sculptures, artefacts and relics from medieval times. Read_on (No Comments)

Sport & Olympia Museum

This museum is a sports fan’s dream: signed balls, bats, boots and boats; this place is wall to wall sports memorabilia. Read_on (No Comments)

Wallraf-Richartz Museum

Three floors of great art from the 13th century through to the Impressionists, including works by Rubens, Rembrandt, Monet and Munch. Read_on (No Comments)