Exhibitions

Our historical permanent exhibition Munich and National Socialism documents the origins, the impact, and the consequences of National Socialism up to the present day. Temporary exhibitions and interventions offer current and international perspectives and focus on certain aspects. Our formats can be artistic or participatory.

Current exhibitions

Intervention

Memory is ...

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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Installation

overexposed/underexposed

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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Exhibition

Munich and National Socialism

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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Upcoming exhibitions

Permanent art installations

Installation

Burned Books

Photo series by Annette Kelm

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Online exhibitions

Stories
online

Tell Their Stories

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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Stories
online

TO BE SEEN. queer lives 1900–1950

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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Stories
online

The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

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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