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
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