Children's events limited in time

From singing magic bird and the talking drum

Magic Flute, enchanting violins, magic drums and other wonderful instruments tell exciting tales and stories: For example, as the Fairy Queen Matuya away the violin. The narrator Annette Hartmann and the musician Monika Haupt one leading into the fantastic world of instruments. Here, some instruments are not only heard, but also tried himself.

For families with children from 6 years

Location: Collection music
Admission: € 4, concessions € 2, children under 18 free.
Sign In E-mail: musik.stadtmuseum (at) muenchen.de
or by calling 089-233-22367.

As a theater ... with the shadow

Here, almost everything revolves around the play of light and shadow. We can play with characters or your own body shadow theater. For this we do not need much: a white wall and a bright light. Inspired by the shadow puppets in the museum, we transform ourselves into a shadow figure. Is it funny, brave or sad? Choose Your Adventure we can experience with it?

For families with children from 8 to 12 years

Admission: € 4, concessions € 2, children under 18 free.
Registration fee: 3 € / Material money 1,50 €
Registration Tel 089-23805-296.

Fashion and more - materials, colors, shapes

The two-day workshop fashion forays to the special exhibition "Gretchen's like sophisticated - Women of the 1930s" as done by other exhibitions of the Munich City Museum. The lady of the 1930s was inspired by the glamor of the Paris fashion world, which contradicted the then prevailing in Germany image of women. discover the participants, such as cuts, colors and patterns are changing over time. In the workshop own fashion designs are designed.

For children and teenagers ages 10
Unfortunately, the participation in a single date is not possible;

Meeting point is at 10.00 am in the foyer

Registration fee: with holiday pass 2 € without Ferienpass € 6;
Material: according to consumption 5-8 € per person
for a short break please bring your own snacks and drinks;

Registration until March 29, 2016 under www.mpz.bayern.de

History of the Film Museum

How big this house is actually, you can see really only from the air: The huge area consists of two spacious courtyards, which are framed by four very different parts. The oldest building, the historic armory in the year 1500, although oriented towards the St.-Jakobs-Platz there, but also touches on the cattle market with the architect Gustav Gsaenger late 1950s built Collection tract and Sebastian square with the replica of the medieval stables building from 1977. Not only because of its size, thanks to its vast collections, the city Museum is the largest municipal museum in Germany. The value of its holdings can not even express in about numbers. A historical museum, the house was formed officially but only in 1888 at the initiative of the city archivist Ernst von Destouches, and with the Maillingerstraße Collection it received a stock of more than 100,000 graphic works that had no other issue as "Munich". Through a lottery the way of sizable purchase price was financed. This was gradually, along with a staged suite entitled "Civil living culture", a kind of amiable folk museum. But apart from that the graphic stocks issued in constant change, nothing spectacular happened. The war then destroyed the stables and the roofs of the armory and in the newly added in 1927, building structure, which the Stadtbaurat Hans Grässel had designed.

After the Second World War, the house quickly developed into a diverse interested in cultural history exhibition hall. Photo and film were, at that time an absolute novelty in German museums collected and presented. Already existing urban collections, like the music instruments and the puppet theater, were brought together under one roof. More and more, the Munich City Museum has focused on areas that have been neglected elsewhere or not even considered worthy of museum. Since the early 1950s, the Munich Art Nouveau came into the house, absolute masterpieces like the "whiplash" of Hermann Obrist or the earliest furniture from August Endell. Posters, graphics and image opportunity satire, showmanship, everyday things, fashion and much more supplemented the traditional stocks.

With the joy of ephemeral apparently worthless became a document for important messages, a critical survey of images and objects, and that too: From this curiosity about significant but unnoticed objects a popular exhibition style, which soon found many imitators developed in the 1970s in an entertaining, sometimes "sentimental" manner. And it was the golden period of scandals: The subtitle "National noise" an exhibition on the Oktoberfest (1985) attracted some minds as well as some critical passages about the now set nuclear power plant Ohu in the catalog of the exhibition "The Isar, a curriculum vitae" (1983). Even against the sixth commandment has been violated frequently, which "The Nude" (1985) marked a record not achieved so far with more than 100,000 visitors at the exhibition. And when "The Twenties in Munich" (1979) and finally the time of the "Third Reich" ( "Munich. Capital of the Movement" from 1993) were treated in major exhibitions, it took nerves of steel to withstand the boiling over reactions , But then the funding for an ever-changing and always elaborate staged exhibition program was scarce and the lack of an attractive permanent exhibition made itself increasingly painfully apparent.

The new, around the year 2000 initiated development in the St.-Jakobs-Platz last ride came to a long-time cherished remodeling plans for the museum. The result is the permanent exhibition "Typically Munich!" Which, fed solely from the collections of the house, is making the first attempt, the history of Munich, but also the essence of this city and its inhabitants to pack in glass cases to provide on base and to hang on the wall. In addition to old acquaintances, as the ten originals of morris dancers from the carver Erasmus Grasser, there are many surprises and so far virtually unknown to see.

Since 1977 also another building belongs on the court for the catchment area of ​​the Munich City Museum, namely the former home and studio of the Munich Rococo sculptor Ignaz Günther. It was built around the mid-18th century by merging two medieval houses on the Upper and Lower Anger, at their original appearance today, the small courtyard with a fountain, the steep, "Stairway to Heaven" called stairs, a room with a beamed ceiling and the " remember dormers mentioned Ohrwaschl ". Now the house is home to the management of the Munich City Museum and the Jewish Museum.

Besides its constantly changing exhibitions, the Munich City Museum also offers a number of regular events ever since. There is, of course, first the film museum, which shows changes daily in his movie showtimes, partly from its own stocks, for the most part but in cooperation with the major film archives and film libraries in the world. Here films are exemplary restored, the main focus is the German silent film of the 1920s. Special care enjoys the film work Karl Valentins, one of the pioneers of this medium in Munich.

A particularly loyal core audience have the events that take place in the collection of musical instruments, both in the evening and on Sunday morning. First-class performers, rarely performed music and performances really long extinct instruments have made it into the city with the world's highest density concert to be constantly sold out. not just for children are the regular puppet theater performances, which usually take place in the hall of the Munich City Museum. Again, the program makers pay attention to present a spoiled public international productions that might otherwise pass over Munich.

Even after the next renovation phase, which focuses on the Gsaengertrakt and the opening of which is for cattle market and Rosental out of St.-Jakobs-Platz will remain the address of the Munich City Museum. It is the best imaginable location for the memory of this city.