November 2006: Visiting Köln – Museum Schnütgen

Museum Schnütgen is a place where you can experience art from the early Middle Ages to the end of the Baroque period in the unique ambiance of a medieval ecclesiastical building. It holds a thousand years of masterpieces of international rank. Among them there are works of church treasure art in bronze, silver, gold and ivory, works of art in wood, stone sculptures and architectural sculpture, one of the largest museum collections of textiles worldwide and one of the largest collections of glass painting in Germany. With a large number of top quality objects in all of these fields the Museum Schnütgen is among the ten most important museums of medieval art in Europe.

Among them are roughly 2000 works of church treasure art in bronze, silver, gold and ivory and roughly 1100 works of art in wood and roughly five hundred Romanesque and Gothic stone sculptures. The textile collection with more than 250 liturgical robes and 3,500 materials from late antiquity until the 20th century and the collection of glass painting are among the largest of their kind worldwide.