Kunstsammlung
Contemporary art museum in a former parliament building, crowned by a glass and steel dome.
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This guide to the K21 in Düsseldorf, the Kunstsammlung's contemporary art house in the old Ständehaus, follows a building that spent most of its life as a parliament. It moves from the Rhineland's provincial diet through wartime fire to the post-war state assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia, and to Johannes Rau, who first took a seat here in nineteen fifty-eight. Best heard from the edge of the Kaiserteich pond, facing the north façade.
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