The Top 10 Things To Do And See In Cologne

Covering over 4,000 square meters, the Lindt Chocolate Museum is an independent museum that showcases the finest in German choco manufacturing. Following the journey of the cocoa beans from tropical greenhouses to the factory floor, Hans Imhoff established this story in 1993 as a homage to centuries of the cult of chocolate in Cologne. Expect chocolate fountains and shelves of truffles galore.

A spectacular contribution to the overall cityscape of Cologne, Museum Ludwig is 260,000 cubic meters founded in 1976 and designed by the architects Peter Busmann and Godfrid Haberer. The museum is composed of a metal-glass exterior which has spectacular irregular forms and a gradually elevated roof that gives the impression of a stepped construction. The collections inside contain the biggest pop-art array outside of the United States, featuring artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or the surrealist Salvador Dali.