A vibrant culture of memory for a diverse urban society

Slider image "Zero Hour" showing a black-and-white photo with a historical city view of Munich. The buildings have been badly damaged; some are ruins or are the remains of demolished parts of buildings.
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Slider image "Commemoration Sites" showing a picture of the documentary Oktoberfest-Attack at the main entrance to the Theresienwiese.
Commemoration sites
Slider image "City is Migration". The picture shows a colour photograph of a group of people sitting on picnic blankets in a park. A woman from the group, wearing a pink summer dress, has stood up and is laughing at the camera.
City is migration
Slider image "Commemoration Sign" showing Munich's Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter standing next to a memorial sign.
Memorial signs
Slider image "Memorials" showing the memorial “Für Euch” by Elke Härtel at the Olympia shopping center.
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Black-and-white photo showing an historical view of the city under a slightly cloudy sky. The buildings have been badly damaged; some are ruins or are the remains of demolished parts of buildings. On the left, behind a building façade that has disappeared, the towers of Munich’s Frauenkirche can be seen. In the right half of the picture, there is a building that has been completely destroyed. In this gap, the tower of Munich’s New Town Hall rises up between partly ruined foundation walls. There is rubble in the foreground. Several small groups of people, largely adults, are on the move or crowd around improvised sales stands under tarpaulins and umbrellas. Most people are wearing long as are their socks. The photograph shows Rosental in Munich after the end of World War II.
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Mobile slider image "Commemoration Site". View of the memorial and information site for the “Oktoberfest Bomb Attack Documentation”
Commemoration sites
Mobile Slider image "City is Migration". Colour photograph of a group of people sitting on picnic blankets in a park. A woman from the group, wearing a pink summer dress, has stood up and is laughing at the camera.
City is migration
Munich's Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter is standing next to a narrow stele with a picture of a man and a short text on it. The memorial sign is commemorating the Munich Jew Erich Emanuel Steinitz.
Memorial signs
Image showing the memorial "Für Euch" by artist Elke Härtel in at the Olympia Shopping Center.
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Public History Munich

We relate our city’s history together with others. As part of Munich’s ‘Kulturreferat’ (Department of Arts and Culture), we research into, promote and communicate the diversity of the city’s culture of remembrance.

In cooperation with dedicated local residents, institutions and partners, we fuse historical retrospection with contemporary issues. We seek to strengthen social cohesion through academically-based cultural initiatives.

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City is migration

Grafischer Scherenschnitt einer Stadt in mehreren Ebenen. Stilisierte menschliche Silhouetten, ein Fluss, ein Straßennetz.
Our city and its history have been shaped by migration. Our focus is on researching Munich’s history of migration since 1945.

1945–2025 ‘Zero Hour?’

Schwarzweißfoto einer historischen Stadtansicht, leicht bewölkter Himmel. Die Gebäude sind stark beschädigt, teils sind es Ruinen oder Überreste abgerissener Gebäudeteile. Links hinter einer zerstörten Gebäudefassade ragen die Türme der Münchner Frauenkirche hoch. In der rechten Bildhälfte ist ein Gebäude vollkommen zerstört. In dieser Lücke ragt zwischen halbzerstörten Grundmauern der Turm des Neuen Münchner Rathauses empor. Im Vordergrund Geröll. Mehrere Grüppchen von überwiegend erwachsenen Menschen sind in Bewegung oder drängen sich um improvisierte Verkaufsstände unter Planen und Schirmen. Die meisten tragen lange Kleidung oder lange Strümpfe. Die Fotografie zeigt das Rosental in München nach Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs.
Liberation from Nazi rule was not an abrupt act or ‘zero hour’, but required years of effort.

Jewish History

Schwarz Weiss Foro von einer jüdischen Menschengruppe in München
Public History Munich contributes to filling in the countless gaps in the Jewish history of the City of Munich through research, promotion and education.
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