Municipal museum of Concrete Art and design in Ingolstadt's old town; the move to the converted foundry hall is planned for 2027.
Special exhibition
On view since spring 2026, the show offers insights into the planning of the future museum, from its new visual identity to the sequence of rooms, complemented by films featuring those involved.
Special exhibition
The exhibition on the third floor makes the mostly invisible work of art conservation tangible; at hands-on stations, visitors can try out methods and explore ethical questions.
Special exhibition
A large wall on the second floor displays a selection of vividly colored square paintings by a young artist who discovered Concrete Art as a child at the museum.
The Museum für Konkrete Kunst (Museum of Concrete Art) opened in Ingolstadt in 1992. Its core was the collection of Swiss poet Eugen Gomringer, a key figure of Concrete Poetry, which the city acquired. The museum is devoted to an art movement that rejects representation and works with color, form, line, and surface according to clear, often mathematical rules.
The museum is housed in a historic barracks building on Tränktorstraße, whose conversion for museum use won an award. However, the low-ceilinged rooms and the limited exhibition space of around 800 square meters soon constrained the growing collection.
In 2007 the Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst und Design (Foundation for Concrete Art and Design) was established, which looks after numerous artists' estates; these were joined by loans from private collectors and a large design collection with objects from between 1920 and 1970. This gave rise to the idea of showing art and design together.
For this purpose, the city is converting the listed 19th-century foundry hall on the former site of the royal cannon foundry into the Museum für Konkrete Kunst und Design, based on plans by the Vienna firm querkraft; most of the exhibition space is being created beneath the hall. The move is planned for 2027; until then, the old building remains open.
| Adults | €5.50 |
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| Reduced | €3.50School students, university students, and apprentices aged 22 and over, people with a severe disability (degree of disability 50–90), retirees, job seekers, social welfare recipients, holders of the Bavarian Ehrenamtskarte (volunteer card), people doing Federal Volunteer Service |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 18 · Children and teens up to and including age 18 free |
| Seniors | €3.50Reduced for retirees |
| Visitors with disabilities | €3.50companion free · Degree of disability 50–90 reduced; free with a degree of disability of 100 or with markers G, aG, Gl, H, Bl, or TBl, as is the companion if noted on the ID |
| Students & apprentices | €3.50School students, university students, and apprentices up to and including age 21 free, reduced from age 22 |
| Groups | –Customized group programs on request; school classes and kindergarten groups including accompanying adults free |
| Guided tour | €5per person, plus admission |
| Combined ticket for five Ingolstadt museums | €12reduced €8; valid for twelve months, one visit per museum |
Free admission also for members of the friends' association, the Deutscher Museumsbund, and ICOM.
All three floors accessible by elevator, accessible restroom in the entrance area. The walk from the Rathausplatz stop (about 350 m) is partly narrow and uneven. Accessible parking nearby. Tactile station and audio descriptions via QR code in the exhibition "Becoming MKKD"; tours in German Sign Language and Easy Language on request; museum app with texts to read and listen to, plus German Sign Language videos.
Great for kids & families
| Kids’ admission | free up to age 18 |
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Creative workshops for families in the series “Sonntags?Kunst!”; tours for kindergarten groups and school classes. Children and teens up to age 18 free.
Rathausplatz · 350 m
Bus to the Rathausplatz stop, then about 350 m on foot; about 10 minutes from the Hauptbahnhof (main station).
Parking available
No parking of its own; nearby, among others, the Tiefgarage Theater West (P1), Mauthstraße 20.
By car via the A9, exit Ingolstadt-Süd.
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The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Photography | Photography for private purposes allowed without flash; tripods only with written permission. |
| Good to know | Group tours via a booking form from the City of Ingolstadt; programs for school classes and daycare centers. Museum app with exhibition texts. |
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