Romano-Germanic Museum

Römisch-Germanisches Museum (Interim im Belgischen Haus)

Evidence of Cologne’s origins as a Roman colony, with Roman glassware, tombstones and jewelry. While the main museum is under renovation, its exhibits are on display at the Belgian House.

Cologne began in AD 50 as the Roman colony of Colonia Agrippina, and the Romano-Germanic Museum holds a large collection of artifacts from that era, famed worldwide for its Roman glass. Its main building beside the cathedral on Roncalliplatz, where a 3rd-century Dionysus mosaic floor is preserved on site, is undergoing a full renovation and is closed for now. During the renovation, about 1,000 selected pieces are on temporary display at the Belgian House (Cäcilienstraße 46) in the city center, including funerary monuments weighing several tons and fine Roman gold rings. The temporary exhibition is modest in size, and an hour is enough for visitors interested in ancient Roman history. Remains of the Roman city wall and the governor’s palace can be seen on the south side of the cathedral and beneath the City Hall, around the MiQua Jewish Museum construction site. Check the official website for opening hours and the reopening date of the main museum.

Romano-Germanic Museum

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