Münchner Stadtmuseum — Attraction in Munich

The Muenchner Stadtmuseum (Munich Municipal Museum) is located at St. Jakobs-platz in the Old Town. Opening hours are 10am to 6pm (Tues - Sun) but closed on Monday. Entry is €7 per person and includes an audio guide which is useful for better understanding items on display throughout the museum.

We visited during a recent trip to Munich and spent two hours exploring the four floors of permanent and temporary exhibitions spread out over four floors of the museum.

The first two floors includes the 'Typical Munich' exhibition which includes a blend of city artefacts, artwork and randoms pieces of local history. Most notable to us where the Mariensäule column monument putti statues.

There is an interesting photography gallery on the second floor with historical shots of the city. Perhaps most impressive was the in-depth puppetry and fairground amusement exhibitions which filled the third floor. Lots on display here that was very interesting to see. The forth floor musical instruments exhibition was quite impressive as well.

Overall, we enjoyed out time at Muenchner Stadtmuseum, finding this to be a museum worth spending a couple hours exploring if you want to learn more about the city and...

Audio guides are available in English, but very little of the signage is in multiple languages. The museum's collection is eclectic - history, music, puppet and carnival, and multiculturalism narratives, as well as the connected socialism museum, all tell very different stories. The collection and museum experience itself was average - a nice thing to do on a rainy or very hot day, and affordable at 4 euro, but definitely not the best city museum I've been to in Europe, and I left without a solid sense of the city's historical narrative, definitely made worse by the lack of multilingual signage. This would have been at best a 3/5 review if it weren't for the museum staff (who deserve a 5/5, so I split the difference). Speaking on average 4 or 5 languages, this staff was the friendliest, most eager to share stories, and most helpful of any of the museums I've been in in Europe. If you're up for a conversation and are keen to learn obscure facts about French horns or 18th century jewellery or whatever else the staff know, it's worth it to have a chat with them! If you do, you'll likely get a big hug before...

Very good collection of historical monuments/relics/paintings describing Munich city's history and evolution and divided in 3 floors beginning with the old history and passing by migration influence and ending by the Nationalsozial party influence. with the 4 euro ticket you can enter also to the black and white exhibition to typical Munich and a cinema with documentaries from 70's till 2000's and what is important that there is a NAZI special exhibition where you can see how this Party evolved and took power till the end in Munich. There's also a free exhibition presenting the Europe free radio which broadcasted during the cold war by the CIA to influence the eastern European countries. a shop and a cafe are available with wardrobe room. till the end of January 2023 you can with a 7 euro ticket also enter two sprecial exhibition one for stories from Olympic games in Munich 1972 and the other for the late and new...