Museum Folkwang, Essen: Photos, Reviews & Location

Museum founded in 1922, with 2010 extension, housing major 19th and 20th-century art collection.

Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen, Germany

museum-folkwang.de

+49 201 8845000

Major art collection in a beautiful modern building by David Chipperfield, also showing changing exhibition. The current print exhibition was excellent. The collection galleries are very spacious (almost empty...) with an interesting, maybe slightly overworked mixed hanging.
There is a well stocked museum shop and excellent museum restaurant. Highly recommended

Prinzessin Nature 2023 Sep 24

It's a great museum with an awesome art collection.

Andrew Szeto 2023 Sep 13

Spectacular museum. Their collection is beautiful, modern, and unique. The staff here are very friendly and professional. Given that this is a free museum, we were very impressed with how well managed, organized, and clean the entire place was. We came early in the morning and there were only 2 or 3 other guests in each gallery, which made our experience that much better. Highly recommend this place if you're visiting Essen.

giulio mosca 2023 Aug 24

What a wonderful surprise!
The building itself is remarkable.
Permanent collection of the highest quality.
It's a must if you're in Essen, but it's worth a trip even if you're far away.

Ben Hills-Jones 2023 Aug 08

The only issue I have with this place is the security staff. Wow. Just wow. So intrusive. All dressed in black like some squad of inspectors waiting to pounce.

Otherwise it’s a great gallery. Apparently voted most beautiful gallery in the world.. mmm that I can’t see. But it’s a great gallery space however.

Really nice collection. Free entry.

Some beautiful Buddhas and bodhisattvas.

It’s all hung by theme which I’m not much of a fan of.

Could do with some improvements but you’re getting 4/5. Just sort your imposing security out please

T 2023 Aug 06

I was so pleased to have visited this.
Excellent and well worth the visit if your in this area. You would be sad if you missed it.
This museum has a GREAT permanent collection from the impressionists onwards - The collection is stunning, all the big names. it's set out in light galeries; beautifully laid out.

Eva L 2023 Jun 27

Easily my favourite visit in Essen. Small as art museums go, but the architecture suits the work well, it's light and airy and quiet. Collection is diverse and I liked that it wasn't split by art movement like in a lot of museums (it's curated by mood and theme). They had a super fascinating ranking of provenance in some of the collection which I would like to see picked up as a methodology in more museums, and the explanation gave a rare and valuable insight into the working of museums, which felt really special. Also, they had a Barnett Newman, which I did not know going in, and it's breathtaking.

Rather excessive number of security guards here though (like 2-3 per room??!), and one of them kept pacing across the room and back again and snorting which was a little distracting in a quiet museum 😅 Staff on the front desk and Garderobe were very kind however and generally an enjoyable visit 😊

Chia-chen Lehahn 2022 May 12

The regular exhibition is free and is alone worth visiting. The building itself is modern and has many sitting areas to chill or take a break. Most staff are friendly but some are a bit stern. I personally don’t care about how and when the buyers aquired which paintings. But that was the focus of the text in the current main exhibition of Renoir, Monet, Gauguin.