Project Partners

The Mu­se­um Lud­wig is a live­ly place that aims to pro­mote knowl­edge and cre­a­tiv­i­ty among a wide range of tar­get groups.

The new holi­day pro­gram "Kunst für Kölsche Kids" starts in au­tumn 2023. The fo­cus is on ex­per­i­men­ta­tion and dis­cov­er­ing one's own cre­a­tiv­i­ty for the par­ti­ci­pat­ing chil­dren and young peo­ple. Ev­ery day, from Mon­day to Fri­day, the par­ti­ci­pants learn a new artis­tic tech­nique. With the gener­ous sup­port of Floss­bach von Storch, eight weeks of free holi­day pro­grams for chil­dren and young peo­ple will be held ev­ery year for the next two years: four weeks in the sum­mer holi­days and two weeks each in the au­tumn and East­er holi­days.

Floss­bach von Storch's spon­sor­ship al­so in­cludes two month­ly fam­i­ly tours, which are free of charge for all par­ti­ci­pants, as well as the fi­nanc­ing of a two-year trai­nee­ship in the art ed­u­ca­tion de­part­ment.

In Fe­bruary 2015, the ART LAB opened as a space for vis­i­tors young and old at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig. In 2017 it re­opened un­der a new name with a new pro­gram. Since then, the POP LAB has been a place for fam­i­lies and chil­dren in par­tic­u­lar to ex­per­i­ment, re­lax, and play to­gether. In­te­grat­ed with the mu­se­um’s large Pop Art col­lec­tion, the POP LAB in­vites young­sters to play­ful­ly en­gage with this style of art and gain their own ex­pe­ri­ences with col­or and feel­ing.

The ART LAB and POP LAB were made pos­si­ble thanks to gener­ous sup­port from GAG Im­mo­bilien AG. This part­n­er­ship, which has ex­ist­ed since 2015, of­fers the mu­se­um the op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­de­sign the space at reg­u­lar in­ter­vals, each time with an em­pha­sis on one of the mu­se­um’s fo­cus ar­eas. The col­lec­tion of­fers a rich reper­toire to draw from, with Sur­re­al­ism, Pop Art, Pi­cas­so, Nou­veau Réal­isme, and con­tem­po­rary art.

De­vel­oped by young stu­dents for a young au­di­ence, the Kunst:Dialoge se­ries of­fers an op­por­tu­ni­ty to en­gage in a dia­logue about artists and their works. You can ask the stu­dents what­ev­er you al­ways want­ed to know about art but didn’t dare to ask. Art his­to­ry stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ties of Cologne, Bonn, and Düs­sel­dorf are trained as art ed­u­ca­tors and are ea­ger to re­spond to your ques­tions and com­ments.

The Kunst:Dialoge team is on hand usu­al­ly ev­ery Sun­day from 1 to 3 p.m. in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tion or in the spe­cial ex­hi­bi­tions as well as at se­lect­ed Late Night Thurs­day events.

We would like to thank the Ge­sellschaft für Mod­erne Kunst am Mu­se­um Lud­wig for their sup­port of the kunst:dialoge se­ries.

The Cologne-based com­pany Pix­um has been a part­n­er of the Mu­se­um Lud­wig since 2015. As part of this col­lab­o­ra­tion, Pix­um was able to sup­port the work in the mu­se­um’s pho­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion. An ini­tial con­tri­bu­tion al­lowed 4,000 pho­to­graphs from the Ag­fa Col­lec­tion at the mu­se­um to be dig­i­tized and made per­ma­nent­ly ac­ces­si­ble to the public. The dig­i­ti­za­tion has cont­in­ued since 2017 with the L. Fritz and Re­nate Gru­ber Col­lec­tions, ac­qui­si­tions by the Mu­se­um Lud­wig, and the Mrazkowa Col­lec­tion, which will be sup­port­ed by Pix­um un­til 2019.

The PHO­TO LAB is a place for young and old to dis­cov­er the world of pho­tog­ra­phy to­gether. As an ex­ten­sion of the pho­tog­ra­phy room in the col­lec­tion, the PHO­TO LAB in­vites chil­dren and adults to get in­volved and ex­per­i­ment.

There are many things for vis­i­tors of all ages to try—­for ex­am­ple, a cam­era ob­s­cu­ra, the pre­de­ces­sor to the mod­ern-day cam­era. Vis­i­tors can take pho­tos of them­selves in front of a pho­to­graph­ic wall­pa­per and even cre­ate a small pho­tog­ra­phy ex­hi­bi­tion with fif­ty pic­tures from the col­lec­tion. The PHO­TO LAB en­livens and opens up the pho­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig in a va­ri­e­ty of ways—­made pos­si­ble by Pix­um.

The Late Night Thurs­day events, which take place ev­ery first Thurs­day of the month, are among of the most pop­u­lar days at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig. With vis­i­tor-friend­ly ex­tend­ed open­ing hours un­til 10 p.m. and a varied pro­gram of events such as con­certs, plays, and guid­ed tours of the mu­se­um’s unique col­lec­tion, it play­ful­ly com­bines vari­ous dis­ci­p­lines, makes art ac­ces­si­ble, and sparks cu­rios­i­ty to learn more.

We would like to thank the Stif­tung Kunst, Kul­tur und Soziales der Spar­da-Bank West for sup­port­ing this pop­u­lar and spe­cial se­ries of events since 2012.

Many won­der­ful ideas are wait­ing to be re­al­ized! If you’re in­ter­est­ed in sup­port­ing a par­tic­u­lar pro­ject at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig, please con­tact Lisa Schade by e-mail: lisa.schademu­se­um-lud­wig.de or by tele­phone: 0221 221 31835.