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By: Katja Kraft
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Inviting: View from Rindermarkt to the future main entrance to the new Munich City Museum.
© Visualizations: Jonas Bloch (Auer Weber)
The Munich City Museum will be completely renovated by 2031.
Now the architects Auer Weber have presented the first images of the new Munich City Museum.
Get excited!
Munich is adorned with a wonderful string of pearls, but this one pearl – the Munich City Museum – could shine a little more.
That's why this is being addressed now.
As reported, the house will close until 2031 - and then reopen as a museum that all citizens and tourists can look forward to.
No more one-way exhibitions in the current winding building, where you have to walk back through the entire show to get to the exit.
No more barriers for people in wheelchairs, with walking frames or strollers.
And: no more searching for the entrance.
To return to the pearl necklace: If you want to take a walk from Odeonsplatz today, you can move from place to place, from pearl to pearl.
From Max-Joseph-Platz continue to Marienhof and Marienplatz, Rindermarkt and St.-Jakobs-Platz.
The Munich City Museum between the latter two is easy to miss.
A sign indicates that the "entrance is around the corner" - but what treasures are hidden behind it, what exhibitions are worth seeing and how much love for Munich, only those who have been here know.
Flooded with light: view from the Sebastiansplatz entrance into the foyer of the new Munich City Museum, at the end of which there is a new event hall.
© Visualizations: Jonas Bloch(Auer Weber)
Just as the Marienhof and Max-Joseph-Platz are being beautified, the inner courtyard of the city museum will also be a public space where people can meet in all seasons.
Looking out the window into the barren inner courtyard at the house's press conference: Uh, public place where people like to meet?
As if Moritz Auer from Auer Weber Architects could read minds, he shows the first slide of his Power Point presentation - and you feel very warm despite the freezing cold.
What today is an uninviting gray courtyard becomes in the architects' visualization: flooded with light, appealing, a place where you actually enjoy spending time.
The completely renovated Munich City Museum is to become a new meeting place
“We are planning a glass-roofed foyer with openings to the Rindermarkt on one side and to Sebastians- and St.-Jakobs-Platz on the other,” he explains.
The house opens up to the city; everyone can walk through it barrier-free, like through a passage.
Or better yet: take a break in the foyer, arrange to meet up, and make yourself comfortable with others on the loosely arranged movable furniture.
Ticketless and beyond museum opening hours.
“This is important to us,” emphasizes director Frauke von der Haar.
“The necessary general renovation gives us the opportunity to completely rethink our museum.
“To create a house that becomes a real meeting place for all parts of the population.” And one that solves the current conservation and museum didactic problems that current architecture is causing her and her team.
The highlight is a cube that is installed in the middle of the room.
Around 18 by 18 meters in size, accessible from all levels.
Enveloped by LED walls that can be used individually, becoming a work of art in themselves.
“Welcome to Munich”: The current gray inner courtyard of the Munich City Museum will become a public, covered space.
Inside is a huge cube in which exhibitions are shown.
© Visualizations: Jonas Bloch(Auer Weber)
But before that happens, there is still a lot of work ahead of them.
The approximately three million collection and exhibition items stored in the museum must be dismantled, packaged and transported to the new interim location at ARRI on Türkenstrasse and stored.
The employees and the restoration studios also move to Maxvorstadt.
“A big logistical challenge,” says Frauke von der Haar.
Which they face full of energy.
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Because the museum operations should continue at the same time.
To do this, they team up with various institutions.
From October 25th, for example, they will be showing the exhibition “Art Nouveau made in Munich” in the Kunsthalle.
It is also part of the preparations for the future permanent exhibition in the company.
From March 2025 until mid-2027, a new city historical show will be on display in the armory, which will then have already undergone significant structural changes.
Popular established formats also continue.
The Cuckoo Theater Festival or the international puppet theater festival, for example.
For the first time in two new locations, in HochX and HP8.
Packing boxes: Instruments from the Munich City Museum's large music collection, ready for the move.
© Gunther Adler
The digital space is also used.
For example, the music collection is to be digitized in the coming years.
Half of it is equipped with instruments from non-European countries.
Digital indexing is intended to facilitate global research into the origins - keyword: return of looted art.
“We want to proactively confront our collection history,” emphasizes von der Haar.
The city is investing 271 million euros in the house.
The exhibition area will grow to 7,000 square meters, and 2,500 square meters alone will be available for special exhibitions in the future.
You can already see it shining: Munich's new pearl.