Special exhibitions

The exhibition illuminates a time of extremes and contrasts, an age full of hope and misery, light and shadows, which also awakes associations with the present. In the dialogue between painting and photography, the exhibition presents highlights of a culture, which was full of artistic innovations and which, at the same time, multiplied itself in the forerunners of the cultural decline during the Nazi regime.

This exhibition, conceived as a tour of the cultural and social history of footwear, sets out by looking at shoes as a practical means of helping people get from A to B. This section focuses on the people who wear the shoes, and explores the meanings attached to the original function of the footwear – primarily to protect the feet and provide support while standing and walking.

To mark the 150th birthday of Kurt Eisner, Bavaria’s first State Premier, the Münchner Stadtmuseum has mounted an exhibition that examines his journalistic and political career. His personality divides opinion as much today as it did during his lifetime. While some dismiss him as an idealist and utopian, others celebrate him as progressive and a man of action.