Museum Island Hombroich, Art museum and sculpture garden in Neuss, Germany
Museum Island Hombroich spreads across 25 hectares (62 acres) of open meadowland with eleven exhibition pavilions made from light concrete, designed by the sculptor Erwin Heerich. These buildings stand scattered between trees and water features, each pavilion holding a different collection of artworks and objects without fixed routes or prescribed paths connecting them.
The site was purchased in 1982 by Karl Heinrich Müller, who bought the Rosa Haus villa and began bringing together art and nature on this land. The first public opening took place in 1987, after the early pavilions were completed and the landscape was shaped for visitors.
The name Hombroich comes from a historic farmstead that has shaped this landscape for centuries. Visitors walk between pavilions where ancient Buddha sculptures might sit near a modern painting, each piece given space to speak without labels or explanations.
The site is open daily from 10 AM to 7 PM between April and September, and from 10 AM to 5 PM during winter months. Comfortable shoes help when walking across meadows and paths that can become muddy after rain.
The exhibition connects two thousand years of art history without explanations or wall texts, so a Khmer relief might hang beside a Rembrandt painting. This approach gives each visitor freedom to discover their own connections between works and interpret what they see themselves.
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