Municipal museum on St.-Jakobs-Platz devoted to Jewish history, culture and present-day life in Munich, with temporary exhibitions on migration and identity.
April 29, 2026 – February 28, 2027
Exhibition taken over from the Jüdisches Museum Hohenems: artists with family roots in North Africa and West Asia explore Jewish-Arab identities between closeness, loss and exile.
Plans for a Jewish museum in Munich existed as early as the late 1920s, but they were realized only decades later. In the 1980s, gallery owner Richard Grimm opened a tiny private museum on Maximilianstraße at his own expense. After about ten years, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Jewish Community) took over the collection and displayed it in its community center on Reichenbachstraße; from 2001, the City of Munich operated this interim solution together with the Stadtmuseum and the city archives.
With the construction of the Jewish Center on St.-Jakobs-Platz, the museum gained a building of its own. The Saarbrücken firm Wandel Hoefer Lorch designed three independent cube-shaped buildings – the main synagogue (2006), the community center and the museum – linked into an ensemble by travertine façades and sightlines. Run by the state capital, the museum opened on March 22, 2007; its founding director was Bernhard Purin.
On some 900 square meters, the basement houses the permanent exhibition “Stimmen_Orte_Zeiten”, which uses audio tracks, ritual objects, photos and a comic to tell Jewish history as part of the city’s history. The upper levels are devoted to temporary exhibitions that often deal with migration, belonging and contemporary art. The museum also helped design the Erinnerungsort Olympia-Attentat München 1972 (memorial to the 1972 Munich Olympics attack) in the Olympiapark and looks after it with guided walks.
| Adults | €6 |
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| Reduced | €3.60 |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 17 · Children and young people under 18 free. |
Free with the München-Pass. 50% discount with an admission ticket from another municipal museum (Stadtmuseum, Villa Stuck, Lenbachhaus, Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum) from the same day or the two preceding days (not for tickets that were already reduced). München Card, München City Pass and City Tour Card are accepted. The website does not say who is entitled to the reduced price.
Foyer, all exhibition levels and service areas reachable by elevator; cobblestones in front of the entrance. Accessible restroom in the basement. Wheelchair and rollator free of charge at the cloakroom. Tactile objects in the permanent exhibition, audio gallery for blind visitors, induction neck loops for tours and events. Texts of the “Yalla” exhibition and a museum page in Easy Language (Leichte Sprache).
Great for kids & families
| Kids’ admission | free up to age 17 |
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Free public children’s programs and Familienpass workshops (e.g., for ages 7 to 12, with registration) as well as bookable guided walks for families. The museum recommends its regular public guided walks for ages 14 and up. Playground next to the café’s sun terrace.
U3/U6 and all S-Bahn lines to “Marienplatz”; U1/U2/U3/U6 to “Sendlinger Tor”; bus 62 to “St.-Jakobs-Platz”.
Café “Coucou Food Market” with a sun terrace. Bookstore in the foyer with books on Judaism and the museum’s publications. Free Wi-Fi. Suitcases, travel bags and trekking backpacks may not be brought in.
The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.
| Guided tours | yes · approx. 60 min |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Guides are available free of charge and without registration during opening hours for conversations and short introductory walks. Public guided walks Sat/Sun (included in admission, registration requested). Schools and tour requests: fuehrungen.jmm@muenchen.de. The Erinnerungsort Olympia-Attentat (Kolehmainenweg 11, Olympiapark), co-designed by the museum, is freely accessible all day. |
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