Museum Penzberg

About the museum

The city of Penzberg founded its city museum in 1994 in a listed company house that the mining company had built toward the end of the 19th century as housing for mining families. At first the focus was mainly on the history of the mining town.

Since 2002, the museum has concentrated on the Rhenish Expressionist Heinrich Campendonk, who belonged to the circle around the Blue Rider and lived for a long time in nearby Seeshaupt. In 2010, 87 works from a private collection were added, and for the reopening in 2016, around 200 further works from all creative phases – including the world's largest holdings of his reverse glass paintings.

Between 2014 and 2016, an extension with a dark, shimmering clinker brick façade was built to plans by the architect Thomas Grubert, its form recalling the Penzberg miners' houses. Since the opening in June 2016, the museum has borne the name Museum Penzberg – Sammlung Campendonk.

In addition to Campendonk's paintings, watercolors, woodcuts, and reverse glass paintings, the museum shows in the old building a furnished miner's apartment from around 1920 and a memorial room for the Penzberg Murder Night (Penzberger Mordnacht) of April 1945. Changing exhibitions place Campendonk in relation to other artists. The museum belongs to the network MuSeenLandschaft Expressionismus.

Highlights

• World's largest collection of works by Heinrich Campendonk
• Reverse glass paintings from all creative phases
• Furnished miner's apartment from around 1920
• Memorial room for the Penzberg Murder Night of 1945
• Clinker brick building by Thomas Grubert (2016)

Permanent exhibitions

• Sammlung Heinrich Campendonk – Paintings, watercolors, woodcuts, and reverse glass paintings by the Expressionist from all phases of his life; a selection of around 30 works is shown at a time.
• Penzberger Mordnacht – Memorial room for the 16 people murdered in Penzberg at the end of April 1945, with silhouettes, text panels, and a media station.
• Bergarbeiterwohnung – An apartment of a mining family from around 1920, furnished in the historic company house, complemented by media stations on everyday life in the mining town.

Founded

1994

Operated by

Stadt Penzberg

Director

Anne Götzelmann (kommissarisch)

Admission & discounts

€7 for locals from Penzberg, with the DB Werdenfels-Ticket, and for members of the Freundeskreis Campendonk (friends' circle); free admission with the Bavarian volunteer card (Ehrenamtskarte). €1.50 off with the combination ticket of the MuSeenLandschaft Expressionismus.

Accessibility

• Partially wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The new building is fully accessible with an elevator; in the old building the first floor and second floor are accessible (low thresholds on the second floor), while the attic can only be reached by stairs.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Kids’ birthday parties

Offerings for families and children, including children's birthday parties and holiday programs; family ticket and free admission up to age 6.

Getting there & parking

By car from Munich via the A 95, exit 8 Penzberg/Iffeldorf, then follow the signs toward the town center; from Bad Tölz via the B 472 and St 2063. Former address: Karlstraße 61.

Amenities & dining

• Museum shop
• Lockers

Lockers in the basement of the new building; bags, backpacks, and large cameras are not allowed in the exhibition rooms.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.

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