Wallraf-Richartz Museum

The Wallraf-Richartz Museum is Cologne's oldest museum and one of Germany's foremost collections of fine art from the medieval period to the early modern era. Its holdings are especially strong in the medieval Cologne School of painters, with luminous gold-ground altarpieces produced in the city. The galleries also present Baroque masters such as Rembrandt and Rubens and a notable body of nineteenth-century works. Housed in a modern cube by architect Oswald Mathias Ungers, it traces its origins to a nineteenth-century bequest.