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EXPEDITIONS
October 25, 2024 to March 30, 2025
Frieda and Adolf Fischer founded the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne in 1909. Their first study tour together, from October 1897 to May 1899, brought the couple from Berlin to Japan. After staying in Kobe, Kyoto and Tokyo, in spring 1898 Adolf Fischer visited the island of Taiwan, known historically as “Formosa”, which had been ruled by Imperial Japan since 1895. The exhibition is centred on previously unpublished travel diaries, reports and photographs produced by Frieda and Adolf Fischer. Artworks purchased in Japan and ethnographic objects acquired in Taiwan provide evidence of the couple’s early collecting activities. more
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Tanaka Ryohei
November 30, 2024 to April 13, 2025
Tanaka Ryohei (1933–2019) was a Japanese printmaker who masterfully employed the Western intaglio technique of etching (Japanese: doban). His predominantly monochromatic prints depict Japan’s traditional thatched-roof farmhouses, temples, and landscapes with poetic beauty and a gentle melancholy. The textures of thatch, wood, stone, and other natural materials are rendered with remarkable precision and perfection. more
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Ink Roamings
April 5, 2025 to November 9, 2025
“Ink Roamings” presents works by the contemporary Chinese artist Jianfeng Pan (*1973) of the past decade, ranging from small album to monumental scroll formats. His multiversal work is both deeply rooted in China’s historical arts of writing and painting and shaped by his eclectic visions as a graphic designer. With his self-description as a “Social Calligrapher,” Pan, today living in Finland, shapes his creative practice of Radical Ink, respectively, Mindful Ink: calligraphy as a contemporary medium and endeavor promoting human communication and spiritual growth across society and cultures. more
Programme
See, experience and understand
All of the museum’s exhibitions are accompanied by numerous different programmes – guided tours, workshops, lectures or special events, for grown-ups, school groups, children or the whole family.
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Collection
A treasure house of art from China, Korea and Japan
The Museum for East Asian Art was opened in 1913 as the first specialist museum of its kind in Europe. It now houses one of the most distinguished collections of art from China, Korea and Japan in Germany.
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Museum
History and architecture
At the heart of the museum’s holdings is the collection of Buddhist painting and sculpture, Japanese screen painting, coloured woodblock prints, Korean ceramics and lacquer art assembled by the museum’s founders Adolf and Frieda Fischer.
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Cafeteria
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Publications
Exhibition catalogues, catalogues of the collection, publications on particular themes, and museum guide
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Precious Donation
The Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, sincerely thanks the Circle of Friends of the Museum of Lacquer Art, Münster, for the donation of a contemporary Japanese lacquer object.
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Opening times
Tuesday to Sunday
11am – 5pm
Every first Thursday in the month
11am – 10pm (except October 3, 2024)
The museum is closed due to the Cologne Marathon on 6 October 2024.
Closed Mondays; open on All Saints' Day
Museum is closed on December 24th, Christmas Day (25 Dec), New Year's Eve (31 Dec) and New Year's Day (1 Jan). Museum is opend on Easter Monday, Whit Monday, German Unity Day and December 26.
Admission prices
€ 9,50 / € 5,50
KölnTag on the first Thursday of the month (except public holidays): free admission to the Museum for all Cologne residents.
How to get here
Public transport: Tram routes 1 and 7 and bus route 142, alight at ‘Universitätsstrasse’
There is a car park at the museum
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Barrier-free
The museum is barrier-free. Disabled toilet available.
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Ostasiatische Kunst Köln
Universitätsstrasse 100
D 50674 Köln
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