Museum of Applied Art (Museum fur Angewandte Kunst)


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Museum of Applied Art (Museum fur Angewandte Kunst). Cologne is one of the favorite tourist attractions in the German city of Cologne. The museum conserves and gets bigger one of the most important German collections of European applied art from the Middle-Ages to the present-day along with a first-class compilation of design from the year 1900 onwards. Your Cologne tour would be an incomplete one if do not pay a visit to this museum.

Experience the most various epochs and styles since the Gothic period at this museum. Besies, small sculptures, luxury objects and objects of decoration narrate the story of interiors fashioned with a high regard to quality – nowadays referred to as interior design.

Come at Museum of Applied Art (Museum fur Angewandte Kunst). Cologne and witness major works like tapestries from Basel and a Venetian wedding goblet from the 15th century, a Renaissance Nuremberg cabinet with geometrical marquetry, Baroque Gobelins from Brussels and Beauvais, two life-sized animal figures in Meissen porcelain, furniture by Abraham and David Roentgen, sets of jewellery from the 19th century by Falize and Castellani, a silver service by Henry van de Velde (1905) and the important Suprematist set of writing implements by N. Sujetin (around 1920).

Museum of Applied Art (Museum fur Angewandte Kunst). Cologne offers and has discussions with artists and expansions in all facets of applied art which also includes the fields of structural design and style, photography, film and a wide variety of interdisciplinary creative draw in recurrently altering exhibitions.

This museum was established in the year 1888 at the initiation of the wholehearted citizens of Cologne and was seconded to a vital degree by the Cologne society of arts and crafts. Make sure that you must visit this museum while on trip to the city of Cologne.

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