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Museum Insel Hombroich

1997

Hombroich is a unique architectural and cultural landscape—part museum, part artists’ colony—where built form and nature exist in quiet equilibrium. Conceived as an “open experiment,” the site brings together minimalist pavilions, repurposed military structures, and contemporary interventions, creating a meditative terrain for art, thought, and living.

Anchored by Museum Insel Hombroich, where works are installed in daylight-filled, geometry-driven structures by Erwin Heerich, the site expands across Raketenstation Hombroich—a former NATO missile base transformed into ateliers, exhibition halls, and residential spaces by architects such as Álvaro Siza, Raimund Abraham, and Tadao Ando.

Alongside these spaces, partner institutions like the Langen Foundation, housed in a glass and concrete building by Tadao Ando, and the Thomas Schütte Foundation’s sculpture hall, contribute to a landscape of quiet monumentalism. Architecture at Hombroich is never simply a container—it is part of the dialogue between art, site, and time.

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