This is a quirky little exhibit in the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum which is effectively just a bit of the frontage of the former Underground club in Cologne. I mentioned that it was a brick in the title of this post, although it feels more of a clump. The museum notes that the Ehrenfeld district used to be an industrial area which wasn’t particularly well-off, although looking at Streetview images, it seems to have been gentrified a fair bit now.
Underground opened in 1988 and became an important part of the local rock scene, with the graffiti on the front changing regularly. As I doubt they had a focus on craft beer I can’t imagine I would have ever gone there, but I like things that are a bit edgy and on-trend.
The building was demolished in 2017 and the site is now used for a school. But it’s rather nice to know that one little clump of that frontage is safely placed in the museum as a memory of the whole arrangement.