Tickets + Opening Hours

Tues­­day through Sun­­day: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Ev­ery first Thurs­­day of the month (in­clud­ing Public Holi­days): 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed on Mon­­days

Open on all Public Holi­­days (in­­­clud­ing Mon­­days) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed on Jan­uary 1, Fe­bruary 20/23/24, De­cem­ber 24/25/31, 2020 and Jan­uary 1, 2021

Tick­ets are valid for same-day ad­mis­sion to the per­ma­nent col­lec­tion gal­leries and all spe­cial ex­hi­bi­tions.

Are avai­l­able here (in­clud­ing a round-trip tick­et for public tran­s­por­ta­tion to the mu­se­um)

• Chil­dren and young peo­ple up to 18 years old
• Schoolchil­dren (in­di­vi­d­u­al­ly)
• Stu­dents in school class­es, in­clud­ing two ac­com­pany­ing per­sons per class
• Hold­ers of the Kün­stlerkarte für Köl­n­er Kün­stler*in­nen
• Ar­ti­sans
• Art his­to­ry stu­dents en­rolled at a uni­ver­si­ty in Cologne or Bonn 
• Refugees, plus one ac­com­pany­ing per­son
• Hold­ers of the Förderkarte der Museen der Stadt Köln
• Cologne resi­dents on their birth­day
• Hold­ers of the Köln-Pass
• Mem­bers of the fol­low­ing as­so­ci­a­tions: 
  • Fre­unde des Wall­raf-Richartz-Mu­se­um und Mu­se­um Lud­wig e.V.
  • Ge­sellschaft für Mod­erne Kunst am Mu­se­um Lud­wig e.V.
  • In­ter­na­tio­n­al Coun­cil of Mu­se­ums (ICoM) 
  • Ver­band Deutsch­er Kun­sthis­torik­er e.V.
  • Deutsch­er Mu­se­ums­bund e.V.
  • Bun­desver­band Mu­se­um­späd­a­gogik e.V.  

• Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents
• Trai­nees
• Mil­i­tary ser­vice and al­ter­na­tive ser­vice mem­bers 
• Mem­bers of the Ver­band Bil­den­der Kün­stler (in Ger­many and in­ter­na­tio­n­al­ly) 
• Mem­bers of the In­ter­na­tio­nale Ge­sellschaft der Bil­den­den­den Kün­ste 
• Youth lead­ers in vol­un­teer or­gani­za­tions

• For Cologne re­si­­dents: free ad­mis­­sion from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Dis­­­coun­t­ed ad­mis­­sion for ev­ery­one else from 5 p.m. on —for on­­ly €7

Free ad­mis­sion to the per­ma­nent col­lec­tion and all spe­cial ex­hi­bi­tions (in­clud­ing two ac­com­pany­ing per­sons per class)

Peo­ple with se­vere dis­a­bil­i­ties (50% de­gree of dis­a­bil­i­ty and above) re­ceive a 50% dis­count on the cur­rent full ad­mis­sion price. Please show your dis­a­bil­i­ty card at the tick­et desk.

Köl­n­Card hold­ers en­joy a 20% dis­count on ad­mis­sion to all mu­ni­ci­pal mu­se­ums in Cologne.

The Mu­se­um­Card in­cludes ad­mis­sion to all mu­ni­ci­pal mu­se­ums in Cologne on two consecu­tive open­ing days. 

• Sin­gle Mu­se­um­Card: €18.00 
• Fam­i­ly Mu­se­um­Card: €30.00

The an­nu­al tick­et al­lows you to en­joy art and cul­ture as of­ten as you like. For twelve months, six days a week, you can vis­it all nine mu­ni­ci­pal mu­se­ums in Cologne and the Archae­o­log­i­cal Zone.

Per­ma­nent col­lec­tions and spe­cial ex­hi­bi­tions
Adults: €90.00
Re­duced: €68.00 

Per­ma­nent col­lec­tions with­out spe­cial ex­hi­bi­tions
Adults: €45.00
Re­duced: €34.00

More in­for­ma­tion on the an­nu­al tick­et to the Cologne mu­ni­ci­pal mu­se­ums is avai­l­able here.  

Vis­i­tors can en­joy re­duced ad­mis­sion up­on pre­sen­ta­tion of a Thalys tick­et at the tick­et desk.