Germany Museum of Applied Arts (MAA) in Cologne

Museum of Applied Arts in Cologne
Since 1989, the Museum of Applied Arts has been housed in a building in the city center that originally housed the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and the Museum Ludwig. This museum was built between 1953 and 1957 by Cologne architect Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) in collaboration with Josef Bernard (1902–1959). For its new use, it was discreetly adapted to the new exhibition requirements by Cologne architect Walter von Lom. The museum's floor plan traces the outline of the Minorite monastery that once stood on the same site. After its inauguration, the new museum was criticized for its factory-like austerity. The large hall was considered a waste of space. In retrospect, however, the building was praised as a successful synthesis of the "given" and the newly created. The architecture was considered a "third way" that mediated between an exaggerated, grand architectural gesture of modernist character and a resigned restoration of the past. In 1967, the building was awarded the Cologne Architecture Prize. When you enter the foyer with the large exhibition hall and then take the long staircase on the left from the ground floor to the first floor, you will see the beginning of this wonderfully curved staircase to the second floor at the end of the long staircase.

You don't need more than two lenses to take good pictures in this museum.
1.) a focal length (zoom) between 24-105 mm and 2.) an ultra-wide-angle lens. I used a Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM. A tripod is not permitted.

Those arriving by car can park in various parking garages in the surrounding area.