Museum Villa Stuck — Attraction in Munich

As the name indicates, there are 2 parts to this space: the museum and the villa. The villa is the most stunning and interesting part. The house of former painter Franz Von Stuck, where he lived from 1898 till his death in 1928, and where he created a fantasy world mixing elements of different mythologies and incredibly creative and colorful patterns. The artist used the villa as a tremendously effective marketing tool to sell his art, and made his house a magnet for the pretentious Bavarian socialites, selling a less than mediocre art at exorbitant prices. The Museum per se, which is attached to the villa, tends to host quite good modern and contemporary exhibitions and is a well used space. Last time I was there they had a pretty spectacular one on Kafka. Entry is free on the first Friday of the month from 6pm until 10pm. The rest of the days of the month, the space...

Thé exhibition about WOELFLI is closed for technical reasons (für technische Gründe). ? But you still must pay the full ticket.

The whole city of Munich displays posters and advertisements on the Great exhibition on artist WOELFLI , but no information on the closing down of the entire rooms .

Only a small paper is attached on the window of the ticket office of this mansion Villa (you must open your big eyes to read it , if you can find it) saying that the expo Woelfli is closed.

Not transparent information...

I loved this place. There really is not much to see - four or five rooms furnished in an art deco art nouveau style and 11 euro to get in. But the glimpse it gives into how a well-to-do artist chose to live at the start of the twentieth century is fascinating. I enjoyed it and I can recommend it. It will not be everybody's cup of tea but IMO there are few better ways of spending an hour in Munich. There was also a wall size video installation of a woman doing some strange dancing which seemed to...