In addition to the various donations, the museums bearing the Ludwig name also hold extensive numbers of works on permanent loan from the Ludwig Collection. As a result of a world-wide cooperation with various institutions, there is a constant exchange of loans with varying time limits. In addition to the Ludwig Museums, the following institutions hold permanent loans from the Ludwig Collection:

	State Art Collections, Kassel (Ancient Art)
	Schnütgen-Museum, Cologne (Medieval Art)
	Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz (Ancient Art)
	Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Cologne (Pre-Columbian Art and Art from Non-European Cultures)
	Couven-Museum, Aachen (Art from the Baroque Period)
	Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg (Applied Arts and Contemporary Art)
	Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne (Ancient Chinese Art)
	German Porcelain Museum, Hohenberg (Modern Chinese Ceramics)
	Hetjens Ceramics Museum, Düsseldorf (Islamic Art)
	Museum of Art, Basel (Contemporary Art)
	Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig (Contemporary Art)
	Municipal Museum, Cologne (Contemporary Art)
	Grafic Museum Foundation Schreiner Bad Steben (Contemporary Art)