Permanent collection

The Wallraf invites you to come face to face with great masterpieces of European art. The museum has one of the world’s leading collections of mediaeval painting, with Stefan Lochner’s “Madonna of the Rose Bower” as its greatest attraction. Other highlights include works by the Baroque masters, ranging from Rubens and Rembrandt to Murillo and Boucher, the German Romantics, French Realism, and Impressionism.

Embark on a voyage through 700 years of art history. In combination with the paintings from the Fondation Corboud, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum has the widest collection of impressionist and neo-impressionist art in Germany. Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot, Signac and Seurat are all represented by outstanding works, and van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Bonnard, Ensor and Munch herald the way to modernism.

The Print Room (2nd floor) presents works from its rich collection of master drawings, by artists ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Dürer, Rubens, Liebermann, Rodin, and many more.

Ticket information

Visitors are requested to show their valid ID for reduced or free admission at the admission control. If the document is not available or not valid, please note that the validity of the ticket expires. The purchase of annual tickets is currently possible only at the Wallraf‘s ticket desk. Please note that the purchase of group tickets (10 persons or more) is only possible at the museum. Guided tours can be booked through the Museumsdienst Köln; self-guided groups must contact the Museumsdienst Köln for pre-registration

Reduced price (with a valid ID) for:

Apprentices, students, volunteers (with “Ehrenamtskarte”), Bundesfreiwilligendienstleistende, welfare recipients. Visitors with a disability pay 50% of the general admission ticket price. Admission is free for a caregiver accompanying a visitor with a disability (pass for persons with a disability: mark “B”).

Free admission (with a valid ID)

• to the permanent collection for:

Children and youth up to 18 years, students of art history and students of art technology and conservation/restoration

• to the permanent collection and special exhibition for:

Children and youth up to 18 years with a residence in Cologne, pupils from all over the world (incl. two caregivers per school class), Cologne residents on their birthday and on “CologneDays”, holders of annual tickets (incl. special exhibitions), holders of MuseumCards and of VIP-Cards, ICOM-members, holders of Cologne-passes as well as patrons (members of Stifterrat Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud e.V. / members Freunde des Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Museum Ludwig e.V.), artists, press, members of the friends’ associations Kunstmuseum Bonn/ Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, cooperation “Rheinschiene Bonn/Rheinschiene Düsseldorf”