Cologne's Museum of East Asian Art is one of the city's strongest specialist museums, with collections spanning Chinese, Japanese, and Korean painting, ceramics, lacquer, sculpture, and applied arts. It offers a calm counterpoint to the cathedral-and-Roman rhythm of central Cologne.
The building near the Aachener Weiher gives the collection room to breathe. Come when you want slower looking: scrolls, porcelain, Buddhist figures, and changing exhibitions that reward attention more than speed.