Exhibitions

Faith with Humour

A Prayer Book from Northern France

11 December 2025 – 17 May 2026

Book decoration on every single page: with this precious manuscript from the period around 1300, the Museum Schnütgen has succeeded in acquiring a special new work. It is a magnificent example of French Gothic manuscript illumination.

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Art Tells Its Own Story

New Ways to Discover the Collection

In the completely redesigned presentation of the collection, the precious medieval works of art tell their own stories. For the first time, different perspectives on art can be experienced directly in the collection: fifteen chapters, from A as in ‘Alexander Schnütgen’ to S as in ‘Sculpture in the Late Middle Ages’, illuminate the respective context of the art with reference to past epochs, iconography, materials or techniques.

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Light in Dark Times

Medieval Stained Glass from the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv

April 3 2025 – April 12 2026

The Museum Schnütgen is exhibiting a precious selection of stained glass from the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv (Kiev), which will be on display outside Ukraine for the first time.

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Digitised Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

A co-operation with the Erzbischöfliche Dom- und Diözesanbibliothek Köln (Archiepiscopal and Cathedral Library) has made it possible to make Museum Schnütgen's manuscripts and early printed books successively available online.

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