Munich Stadtmuseum

The Munich City Museum in St. - Jakobs-Platz is supported by Kulturrefererat City of Munich and is located in the former armory of the city of Munich, the stables and in three other phases. It was founded by the former city archivist Ernst von Destouches on July 29, 1888. The management of the museum is located in the Ignaz -Günther - house, a late medieval house dating from the 15th century, in which a ladder to heaven is that leads to the second floor.

Morris dancers of Erasmus Grasser

As the most important exhibits the resulting 1480 morris dancers of Erasmus Grasser, who had been created for the ballroom of the Old Town Hall apply. The morris dancers are considered standard examples of bourgeois art of the late Gothic period.

Permanent exhibition Typical Munich!

Nestled in the cultural and historical context is presented everything in a tour over three floors, which is typical for the city and its inhabitants. From alleged clavicle Duke Henry the Lion to the Allianz Arena, the exhibition explores the cultural history of Munich from its founding legend to the present. A special attraction are the famous morris dancers of Erasmus Grasser (1450-1518) and a copy of Sandtnerschen city model from 1570. On a total of 2400 m² shows Typically Munich! approximately 400 objects, starting with the old Munich stations as UK or Schwabinger Bohème through to the 1972 Olympic Games and the present. You can see the most important works that has the Munich City Museum collected since its inception in 1888. The exhibition presents three questions: What is typical Munich, since when and most importantly why?

Typically Munich! exclusively shows works from its own collections and provides a comprehensive insight into the quality and diverse collection areas of the Munich City Museum: graphics, posters and paintings, furniture, sculpture, crafts, fashion, folklore, photography, film, music and showmanship. With respect to a best-of selection, the stocks for the exhibition have been scientifically re-edited, supervised restorers and placed in the city 's historic context.

In the center of Typically Munich! is the phenomenon of a municipal emancipation, in the city from its courtly dominated throughout history goodbye, a search for a modern self-conscious and has earned the reputation of " secret capital" of the Federal Republic. The permanent exhibition shows how this process actually, basically since the 700 - year celebration from 1858 to today is effective only since the 19th century.

For the structural realization of the company's Munich armory was thoroughly renovated and equipped with modern museum technology. It is an exemplary act of preservationists, the building worthy of its historical significance and appropriate inserts by in the new ensemble at St. - Jakobs-Platz with the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Museum.

National Socialism in Munich - Codes of memory

The existing since 2003 permanent exhibition National Socialism in Munich - Codes of memory shows genesis, severity and consequences of National Socialism in Munich 1918-1945 The emphasis is on the features that town to the site of the Nazi headquarters and " Capital of the Movement " and. "Capital of German Art " could be. This includes information on the players and the persecuted, about acceptance and resistance in Munich.

As part of the exhibition, a blue neon sign with the lettering was installed "store Uhlfelder " in the Oberanger facing windows of the museum building, which recalls that the building is partly in place of the former department store Uhlfelder that plundered during Kristallnacht and its Jewish owner was expropriated by the Nazis.

Film Museum and Municipal Cinema

The Munich Film Museum was founded in 1963 as a department of the Munich City Museum, making it Germany's first municipal theater. In almost daily game mode ( no performances on Mondays ) represents the Filmmuseum in his cinema before exceptional works from every era of international film history. His archive includes important classic films that were reconstructed consuming spent years in part. This includes silent film classics such as The Joyless Street, Metropolis, The Golem: How He Came Into the World and The Loves of Pharaoh, as well as the unfinished film fragments from the estate of Orson Welles. Often, directors, actors and other film professionals at the Film Museum as guests, who discuss after the show with the audience about their works.

Collection of Photography

Opened in 1963 The Collection of Photography (then Fotomuseum in Munich City Museum ) is one of a collection collection of over 500,000 photographs of the leading photographic collections in Europe. The focus of the stocks is in the period to 1980, but is still growing through positions of contemporary photography. Through the purchase of the collection of the photographer Josef Breitenbach came in 1977 over 600 originals by internationally renowned photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Robert Adamson & David Octavius ​​Hill, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Roger Fenton, André Kertész and Lisette Model to the Collection of Photography that form the core of today's image collections. An important supplement The collection was in 1984 by the purchase of about 1,000 objects Uwe Scheid comprehensive collection on the history of photography in the 19th century. 1985 came the foundation Franz Hanfstaengl to the museum. Since 1991, numerous archives and estates have found their way into the collection, including more than 1,100 vintage prints extensive estate of Herbert List and extensive archives, among others, by Thomas Hoepker, Stefan Moses, Floris M. Neusüss, Norbert Przybilla, Regina Relang, Hans Schreiner and his Institute of journalism, Frank Eugene Smith, Vladimir Vinski well as the archives for the Quick magazine. A big attraction represents the preserved in its original state in the permanent exhibition Typical Munich! presented Kaiserpanorama - one in Europe around 1900 extremely popular mass medium - that allowed 25 people at a time to look three-dimensional cycles of domestic and foreign travel and cityscapes.

A specialized library with over 10,000 volumes and 600 rare photo books are available for scientific research. The reputation of the Collection of Photography (formerly Photo Museum ) founded in the 70s numerous monographic and thematic exhibitions. In the last 15 years here have been retrospectives of Nobuyoshi Araki, Felice Beato, Bernd and Hilla Becher, the brothers Bisson, Joachim Brohm, Samuel Bourne, John Deakin, Hugo Erfurth, Frank Eugene, Theodor Hilsdorf, Peter Keetman, Philipp Kester, William Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Herbert List, Will McBride, Stefan Moses, Irving Penn, Pierre et Gilles, Alexander Rodchenko, Toni Schneiders, Giorgio Sommer, Dimitri Soulas, Paul beach and Juergen Teller shown. In the foyer on the first floor of the museum, the Forum presents a selection of contemporary photographs.

Collection Puppet Theater / showmanship

The collection of puppets and showmanship of the Munich City Museum, the ( Ludwig Krafft ) dates back its origin to the year 1939, is engaged in all areas of puppet theater since the 18th century. The internationally oriented collection of about 13,000 figures, puppets, marionettes, rod and shadow puppets with complete stage estates, theater decorations and text books. The focus is on the detection of folk and artistic puppetry before 1945 in Germany. Next, the fundus of the music box were - Mechanical Theatre Munich students (1955 to date) almost completely collected, and the character sets of the puppet studios in Schwabing (since 1949 ). In addition, the former workshop of the Munich sculptor and puppet maker Walter Oberholzer is completely assembled and can be visited. Oberholzer had also worked for the Munich Marionette Theatre. In addition, the (1959 ) is on view achievable fundus of the principals of the Munich Marionette Theatre before 1933 Artist Paul Brann in permanent exhibition. There are also rich supplies from other European countries as well as from Asia and Africa. A special feature is the stock of mechanically - moving figures and machines. Since 1980, the museum expanded its interests to the field of showmanship with a view to the interest of the German Fairs and festivals from the 19th century to the present. Here also the divisions vaudeville and circus are taken into account. The Museum Department has thus become the central point of contact for questions about popular amusements. In addition to the permanent collection, which mainly illustrates the development of puppetry and the showmanship in Germany, the researchers are interested in the specialized library, the archive and the video collection. In cooperation with the Munich club Society for the Promotion of puppetry the entire spectrum of the puppet theater is maintained by performances of contemporary stages.

Music collection

In addition to treasures of instrument making from different cultures an excellent cross-section for the diversity of musical activity is offered. The collection of music includes 6,000 objects, including about 1,500 instruments from Africa, Asia, the Ancient Americas and Europe, as well as the special field of mechanical music instruments with a large star - Orchestrion. During a guided tour there is the possibility, under the guidance of the gamelan from Java and Bali to play themselves. Evening concerts and Sunday matinees transform the exhibition space into a concert hall.