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Our web-based app offers tours through our exhibition and information on 118 places in Munich and the surrounding area.

About the app

Whether you’re at the Documentation Center, somewhere out and about in Munich, or at home, our web-based app offers tours of our exhibition Munich and National Socialism and information about 118 places in Munich and the surrounding area as well as all our other offers that you can use at home.

Simply select your location and discover our exhibition on a variety of tours aimed at different target groups or find out about Munich’s Nazi past in the city.

Explore our app

© NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Foto: Connolly Weber Photography

Our tours through the permanent exhibition

The key facts in 40 minutes

12 Stations, 40min | Available in German & English

The 40-minute tour guides you to the most important points in the exhibition, narrated in easy-to-understand language by young people and the voices of contemporary witnesses.

Munich and National Socialism

32 stations, 150min | Available in German, English, French, Italian, Spanisch, Polish

The tour provides an overview of the history of National Socialism in Munich from different perspectives. You will hear the voices of contemporary witnesses and see photos and film footage from the archives.

Unmasking Nazi Propaganda

13 stations, 65min | Available in German & English

Images were important propaganda instruments for the Nazis. On the tour we uncover the stories behind the images and learn to view photographs critically.

What does this have to do with me?

17 stations, 75min | Available in German & English

In this tour young people over the age of 14 will learn what one should know about National Socialism and think about what history has to do with everyone of us.

Ernst tells how he survived

15 stations, 65min | Available in German & English

In this tour for families with children over 10 Amelie and Benedikt will introduce you to the story of Ernst Grube who lived in Munich under the Nazis and was persecuted as a Jewish child.

International Sign Language

32 stations | Available in DGS & ISL

This tour will give an overview about the exhibition and the history of National Socialism in International Sign Language.

Use your own device

You can also run the media guide on your own Smartphone or Tablet: Log into our free WiFi NSDOKU-visitors and scan the QR code at the information desk. Please bring your own headphones.

Our app guides you to 118 places in Munich and environs that have a direct connection with the city’s Nazi history. The starting point for our app is the all-pervasive impact that National Socialism had in Munich. Using texts, historical visual and source material, biographies, and audio and video sequences, it provides a variety of background information about the events, functions, and people associated with particular buildings and locations and how these places have changed in the course of history.

You either explore the places one by one or you

discover places by topic

Rise of the NSDAP
Places of Resistance
Deprivation of Rights and Persecution
Penetration of Society
Administration and Crimes
Economy and Industry
Forced Labour and the Camp System
Self-Staging of National Socialism

discover places in one city district

City Center
Maxvorstadt
Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt
Lehel

Sponsorer

Our app was created using fabulAPP – Baukasten für digitales Storytelling im Museum provided by the Association of Non-State Museums in Bavaria and funded by the Bayerische Sparkassenstiftung. The tours through the Munich Documentation Center were produced with the kind support by Bayern 2.