A new museum exhibiting the Catholic archdiocese of Cologne's art collection is to show modern art mixed with medieval treasures from today onwards*.
A 14th-century altar with a shrine for relics is exhibited alongside paintings by US pop artist Andy Warhol.
The 4,500-square-metre Kolumba Museum was built on the foundations of a Cologne church, St Columba, which was flattened by Second World War bombing and never rebuilt.
Yesterday was the official opening, with a really
controversy speech by Cardinal Meissner.
St. Kolumba church before the bombings of WWII
The museum as it is today
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