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Kolumba is the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. The building itself is the star — a luminous gray brick structure that floats over the excavated ruins of the Gothic church of St. Kolumba, destroyed in WWII.
St. Kolumba church was destroyed in 1943; Gottfried Böhm built a chapel in the ruins in 1950. Zumthor won the competition for the museum in 1997; it opened in 2007 to international acclaim.