Exhibitions

May 8, 2025 to May 10, 2026

A hat, a puppet, a tablet tube, a beer mug. What memories are associated with these things, what stories do they tell? Our permanent exhibition features more than 20 objects, expanding its narrative with new stories. 

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May 8 to October 19, 2025

In the video installation Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi investigate eight locations in different parts of Munich that are imbued with the experience of terrorist violence. 

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How did the Nazis come to power and why did democracy fail? The permanent exhibition examines the origins and rise of National Socialism in Munich, the city’s special role in the Nazi regime and the city’s difficulties in dealing with this history

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Oct. 30, 2025 to July 12, 2026 

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Photo series by Annette Kelm

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Media artwork by Benjamin and Emanuel Heisenberg

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In Tell Their Stories relatives tell the stories of the victims of the right-wing extremist attack at Munich's Olympia shopping center on July 22, 2016.

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Scroll through the long history of far-right violence in Germany and worldwide—with a special focus on Munich.  

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Our scrollytelling provides a look inside the stories of LGBTQI+ in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. Here you can scroll through their stories!

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The web app tells the story of Nazi forced labor in Europe and the impact this historical experience has had right up to the present day.

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Scroll through the impressive eye-witness testimonies from the so-called Ringelblum Archive: these tell the story of the lives and deaths of people in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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