January 2024

Snaps from January 2024, including a visit to the Museum Ludwig, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, the Schnütgen Museum, the El-De Haus, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, the Roman-Germanic Museum, and the Cologne Cathedral.

In mid-January, something really rare happened: It snowed in Cologne. The city was covered in a white blanket, and I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the snow-covered city.

We also participated in one of the many demonstrations that spontaneously sprung up across Germany at the end of the month against far-right movements and the far-right AfD party. There were 70,000 participants in Cologne alone.

Some images are used and further explained in the following blog posts:

• NS DOK El-De Haus: Retracing the steps of Nazi history in Cologne
• Fate of the Jews in Cologne under Nazi rule
• Forgotten Victims of the Nazi regime: ‘Social Outcasts’
• Forgotten victims of the Nazi regime: Disabled individuals
• Forgotten victims of the Nazi regime: Roma and Sinti
• Persecution of homosexuals under the Nazi regime
• Youth resistance groups in Cologne against the Nazi regime
• Acts of resistance in Cologne against the Nazi regime
• Consequences of the war for the people of Cologne
• Beyond the sacred: Exploring medieval art at the Schnütgen Museum
• Faith and commerce: The medieval relic trade in Cologne
• The Bright Age: The vibrant colors of medieval Christian art
• Silent narrators: Medieval wood sculptures
• From Gothic to Zen: Comparing medieval Western and Eastern wooden sculptures
• Roman legacy in Cologne
• Roman legacy of glass art in Cologne
• Cologne’s pottery heritage
• Lares and the evolution of household deities in Europe
• On the Hellenistic heritage in Christian culture and Buddhist art