Wallraf-Richartz Museum

Once we had done the chocolate museum, Greg wanted to what else we wanted to do. He was met with blank faces because basically, we felt the chocolate museum was the "be all and end all" of our tourist sights. However the Wallraf-Richartz Museum(WRM) had been recommended to us by a few friends and I have to say it is a definite must see.

We got lucky by buying a special concession ticket which meant that for the price of one entry fee we basically got to see a whole list of other museums for free. It's called the "MuseumsCard" in German and in English which is handy and it entitles 2 adults and 2 children under 18 to visit each municipal museum in Cologne once on any two consecutive opening days. Also on the first day of validity, the card can be used on all busses and trams within the city zone from 9am onwards.
So here's the list of museums-Wallraf-Richartz museum, Fondation Corboud, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Foto-Historama, Museum Schnuetgen, Roemish-germanisches Museum, Museum fuer Ostasiatishe Museum, Koelnisches Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Kasmir Hagen, Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst and Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum.

All three of us really enjoyed the art on display here. My pleasure in it was probably intensified as the last exhibit we had seen was Picasso's modern stuff ´whích if I was being polite I would have to say 'it wasn't to my taste';and if I wasn't being polite I would have to say, 'it was the self-indulgent rubbish of a dirty old man.'

So anyway, the WRM had Munch, Renoir, Monet etc...Jordy was impressed that I recognized their work. I was too. However I have to credit my knowledge to jigsaw puzzles. We even enjoyed the religious paintings. They were something else.

It was soon time again for us to head off to our pub. But we only got to have a table for 20 mins, it is such a popular place. Plenty enough time for 3 beers.