hopePlate 322 · Cologne, Germany

Kolumba Museum

A museum grown over a ruined church, with a goat of light in the masonry.

2007 · Peter Zumthor · Europe

The chamber score

Ein deutsches Requiem, I

Johannes Brahms · 1868

Comfort in German, for the living.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Zumthor's Kolumba, a masterpiece of building on ruins.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Kolumba Museum through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Kolumba Museum was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.