Cologne Museum Service

For over 60 years, the Cologne Museum Service has been bringing Cologne's museums together with a diverse public. With an innovative program and a clear focus on cultural participation, it turns museums into places of encounter and creativity.

About the Cologne Museum Service

The Cologne Museum Service works daily to make the city's museums lively and accessible to everyone. It promotes cultural education, brings the diversity of the museums to life, and strengthens the exchange between the museums, the people of Cologne, and visitors to Cologne. In doing so, it attaches particular importance to inclusive coexistence that invites everyone to engage with art, history, and culture.

With its program, the Museum Service aims to make museums not only places of knowledge, but also meeting places for creative encounters and social exchange. The events and offerings are developed in close cooperation with the museums and many stakeholders from Cologne's urban society. Care is taken to ensure that they fulfill the educational mandate of the City of Cologne and meet the needs of a broad, diverse target group.

Museums want to be places of open encounter where no one feels excluded. The Cologne Museum Service is therefore constantly working to make these spaces even more accessible and diverse – whether through digital formats, innovative guided tours, or barrier-free access. Visitors to the museums should feel welcome and inspired – and be able to discover all of Cologne's cultural treasures in their own unique way.

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All further information can be found on the website of the Cologne Museum Service.

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60 years Cologne Museum Service

An anniversary year full of encounters, exchange and culture

In 2025, the Cologne Museum Service celebrated its 60th anniversary. Under the slogan “60 Years of the Cologne Museum Service – Are you joining in?”, all visitors were invited to discover the diversity of its programme and play an active part in shaping it. 

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Impressions

Visit information

Monday – Thursday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Cologne Museum Service
Leonhard-Tietz-Straße 10
50676 Cologne

Directions & transport connections
Public transport
Bus, underground, tram: “Neumarkt” (5-minute walk)

Parking
Cäcilienstraße parking garage
Short-term parking for coaches directly in front of the museum, Cäcilienstraße bus bay.
Parking for coaches on the banks of the Rhine. 

Entrance area accessible via ramp. Elevators to the offices and museum education workshops on the first floor. Disabled toilets in the basement and on the first floor are accessible.

Lessons with the Museum School

Lessons in the museums, outside at the city walls or in the monuments: The team of the museum school enables a competence-oriented and custom-fit access to the learning place museum in close consultation with you.

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