Jewish Museum Munich

The Jewish Museum is a museum of the city of Munich and is supported by the Munich Department of Culture. It is part of the Jewish center at Munich Sankt - Jakobs-Platz and was opened on 22 March 2007.

History

Preliminary views on the establishment has been made about 1928. After the Holocaust, supported the long-time chairman of the Jewish community, Hans Lamm, the establishment of such a museum, but this could not be realized.

In the 1980s, the gallery owner Richard Grimm opened in the Maximilian street to 28 square meters with a private Jewish Museum.

After ten years, the Jewish community took up the collection and put showrooms in the community center in Reichenbachstraße 27 available. This " interim museum " was to 2001 led by Richard Grimm, then operated as a municipal institution in cooperation with the Munich City Museum and the city archive.

To build with the plans of the Jewish community, the new main synagogue and the community center at St. -Jakobs -Platz, there came also for the planning and construction of the Jewish Museum of the City of Munich, which designed by the Saarbrücken architects Wandel, Hoefer and Lorch and was funded by the City of Munich with 13.5 million euros. The museum combines a staircase without a curvature or any change of direction three floors. This so-called Jacob's ladder - because of the enormous lack of space in the medieval town used to be the preferred construction of most of the old Munich town houses - ending in a skylight that lets in daylight.

Since 2008, may be served in the museum an Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.

Exhibition

The 900 square meters of exhibition space spread over three floors. In the basement is the permanent exhibition "Voices - Places-Times " housed on Jewish history and present of Munich. In the first and second floor Exhibitions change with different topics. The offer is complemented by a study room and a specialized library. The ground floor is home to a Jewish bookstore and cafeteria.

As a founding director of the Munich City Council appointed the cultural scientist Bernhard Purin, who had previously headed the Jewish Museum of Franconia in Fürth and Schnaittach. In its first year, the Jewish Museum in Munich attracted 100,000 visitors.