Special exhibitions

From the end of the 19th century, goldsmithing became an increasingly important craft in Munich, so much so that many goldsmiths and jewelry artists can still be found living and working in the city today. This is in no small part due to the internationally renowned class of jewelry and hollowware offered by the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

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.

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.