Museum der Stadt Grafing

About the museum

The museum's roots go back to the 1930s, when the Grafing master builder Bartholomäus Rieperdinger collected local history items. After his death, a working group for local history was founded in the early 1950s, which continued the collection and eventually handed it over to the town. In 1965 the Heimatmuseum opened in cramped rooms on the first floor of the town hall.

In 1971 the collection moved into a former workshop and farm building of the Rieperdinger property on Bahnhofstraße. The family's residential building, erected in 1871, had come to the town by inheritance in 1963 and initially served administration. After a careful renovation in which it regained its historic façade with divided-light windows and balcony, it was reopened in 2003 – on the 50th anniversary of the town's elevation to city status – as the "Museum der Stadt Grafing".

Today the permanent exhibition is spread across the main building and the rear building. In the main building, the focus is on works of art from the Romanesque to the Baroque, religious folk art, benefactors of the town, and above all the extensive collection of paintings and lithographs by the landscape and animal painter Max Joseph Wagenbauer, born in Grafing, complemented by works of the Lorenzenberger Künstlerkreis (artists' circle). The rear building is devoted to local history, furnished living spaces, and vanished crafts of the region.

Highlights

• Collection of paintings and lithographs by Max Joseph Wagenbauer
• Romanesque Madonna from the 13th century
• Fully furnished parlors, chambers, and kitchen
• Equipment of the former Grafing diamond-cutting workshop
• Working loom

Permanent exhibitions

• Kunst von der Romanik bis zur Moderne – In the main building: sacred sculptures, religious folk art, paintings and lithographs by Max Joseph Wagenbauer, and works by the Lorenzenberger Künstlerkreis after 1945.
• Grafing – Geschichte, Wohnen und Handwerk – In the rear building: local history since early times, furnished living spaces, and extinct crafts such as peat cutting, diamond cutting, weaving, and brush making.

Founded

1965

Operated by

Stadt Grafing b. München

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission, donations are welcome.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

GPS address: Bahnhofstraße 10, 85567 Grafing. There are around 850 parking spaces in the town center, including the underground parking garage at Rotter Straße 12.

Amenities & dining

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