Special exhibitions

“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. With the Atomic Café, in a sense a fata morgana, a treat to be rediscovered in all its glory at Münchner Stadtmuseum, and a host of memorabilia from venues like Ultraworld, Ultraschall, Flughafen Riem, Kunstpark Ost, Registratur – to name just a few – the exhibition offers an experience akin to a modern-day pilgrimage.

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.

The Münchner Stadtmuseum is delighted to present its first exhibition of work by artist duo Mitra Wakil and Fabian Hesse, who pioneer projects combining modern technology and the visual arts. They mine information from databases to create digital visualizations and then use a 3D printer to transform them into real objects. The exhibition showcases both the finished works – anthropomorphic silver sculptures made from bioplastics – and the color renderings used in creating them