SiemensForum München

The Siemens Forum in Munich at Old Town Square in Munich ( Oskar-von -Miller-Ring 20 ) is the corporate museum of Siemens AG and the center for permanent exhibitions, lectures and seminars, as well as the seat of the Siemens Archives. It is since the fall of 1999 in a designed by New York architect Richard Meier building. The exhibition area has been closed since the end of 2011 and is expected by 2015.

Building

The building has a gross floor area of ​​43,000 m², the offer still 600 jobs besides the public part. Of the 9 floors are 6 over the earth. Noteworthy is the six-story rotunda.

History

1916 founded the first company Siemens in Berlin Museum in Germany. The Siemens Archives has existed since 1906. With the division of the company headquarters in Berlin and Munich after the Second World War the museum on 31 May 1954, moved to Munich in the Prannerstraße 10. 1997, however, another Siemens Forum was also re-established in Berlin. 1999 the company moved from the Prannerstraße in the new building at the Oskar-von -Miller-Ring.

Since March 2011, the building is closed to the public. The exhibition is scheduled to open late 2015 again in the renovated headquarters on Wittelsbacherplatz.

Siemens Museum

The permanent exhibition presented the development of electrical engineering and electronics by selected products of the company using multimedia agent, which in addition to technical, economic and social aspects are considered. Here also the history of the company itself was traced. Focuses on the areas of information and communications, energy, transport, industry and environment and health. There were also special exhibitions on various topics.