This is a list of museums in Cologne, Germany:

• Museums of the City of Cologne – (K)
• The private museums – (P)
• Museum of the university – (U)

Museums

Art

• Museum Ludwig – Modern art; e.g. pop art and Russian avant-garde (K)
• Wallraf-Richartz Museum – Paintings from medieval period to early twentieth century (K)
• Schnütgen Museum – Christian religious art mainly from medieval period (K)
• Museum für Angewandte Kunst – Museum of Applied Art (K)
• Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst – Museum of East Asian Art (K)
• artothek – (K)
• Kolumba – Art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne^[1] (P)
• Domschatzkammer – Treasure of the Cologne Cathedral (P)
• Kölnischer Kunstverein^[2] – (P)
• Käthe Kollwitz Museum^[3] – (P)
• Skulpturen Park Köln – (P)
• August Sander Archive – (P)

History and culture

• EL-DE Haus – Nazism Documentation Centre located in the former headquarters of the Gestapo (K)
• Romano-Germanic Museum – Roman artifacts mainly from the Roman settlement Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (K)
• Kölnisches Stadtmuseum – History of the City of Cologne (K)
• Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Ethnology (K)
• Rheinisches Bildarchiv [Wikidata] – Rhenish Photographic Archive (K)
• Fragrance museum – Farina House, History of Eau de Cologne and modern perfumery (P)
• Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum – Imhoff Chocolate Museum (P)
• German Sport & Olympia Museum [Wikidata]^[4] – (P)
• Cologne Carnival Museum [de]^[5] – (P)
• Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln – German Dance Archive Cologne (P)

Science and nature

• Odysseum [de]^[6] – Science center – (P)
• Geomuseum^[7] – Museum of Geology, palaeontology and mineralogy – (U)