Rheinisches Malermuseum

The basis of the collection presented in the museum comes from the inheritance of a Bonn master painter. The detailed depiction of a painter's workshop around 1900, including the tools, paint mills, brushes, paints and other equipment in use at the time, forms the center of the small exhibition. Various techniques of the painter's craft are demonstrated by means of different designs for murals, ceilings and facade designs.

The history of the Bonn Guild of Painters and Decorators comprises another section of the exhibition. On the basis of flags, documents and invoices of the formerly independent guilds of Bonn, Bad Godesberg and the Rhein-Sieg district, the visitor gets an impression of the self-confidence of the painters' and decorators' trade in the Rhineland at that time. The original silver guild cup - a work from 1896 - is the showpiece of this exhibition area.

The museum is located at Berliner Platz 35-39, in the old painters' hall on the second floor of a former vocational school. Today, the separate building houses the gymnasium of the now closed Pestalozzi School, a former open all-day special school. Athletes from the Bonn Boxing Club train there. As an eye-catcher, the painted exterior façade from the Wilhelminian period is an advertisement for the museum that is visible from afar.

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