Keramion in Frechen celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. In all those years we still hadn’t visited this famous ceramics museum in Germany. But this summer we were in the area, so we could no longer resist the pottery sirens from Frechen.

Frechen, near Cologne, is one of the centers on the Lower Rhine where ceramics have been made since 1200. As in Raeren and the Westerwald, artisanal potters have fired “Rheinisch Steinzeug” (Rhine Stoneware) there from about 1400.

But at Keramion, the emphasis is on contemporary ceramic art. After all those historic pots, that’s exactly what we were looking for…