Special exhibitions

The Münchner Stadtmuseum will shortly undergo a full refurbishment to make ist architecture and displays fit for the future. Before we close on January 8, 2024, we would like to invite everyone to join us for two months of celebrations and a chance to say a temporary goodbye to the museum!

[Translate to Englisch:] Die Musikbaustelle KOLLABS – die interdisziplinäre, prozesshafte, kollaborative Studio-Ausstellung zu Neuer und experimenteller Musik – ist zurück!

Artist duo Brunner/Ritz set Münchner Stadtmuseum aglow one last time before it is set to close for renovation. Their installation of lamps on loan from Munich residents creates a light composition in our windows every evening.

"Jardin d’essai" is a series of photos taken by Maude Grübel in Algiers between 2009 and 2014. The title is a reference to a botanical garden created in the Hamma district in 1832, during French colonization. The Franco-German photographer first visited the Algerian capital in the company of a friend who was returning to his homeland after several years of absence and who sensed that he no longer belonged.

"Munich Displaced" is a pioneering exhibition focusing on displaced persons (DPs) and casts a spotlight on their different experiences during the immediate post-war period in Munich. This heterogeneous group of people had either fled to the German Reich or had been deported during World War II and had ended up in Munich in 1945.

Puppets and dolls ("Puppe" in German) figure in our lives in a myriad of ways be it in children’s bedrooms, fairgrounds or on the stage and indeed enjoy an enduring appeal. They intrigue us both as figurative replicas of human beings and as embodiments of our innermost wishes, fears, and desires. They hold up a mirror to society and all its role models past and present.

“Here Comes the Night”, an exploration of Munich’s cultural history, takes a nocturnal journey through the city and its club culture from the post-war period to the present day. It explores urban planning and economic issues and focuses on the clubbing hotspots and leading lights of Munich’s after-hours scene and nightlife both then and now.