The Sudeten German Museum is the central museum of the German-speaking population in the historical lands of Bohemia, Moravia and Sudeten Silesia – what is today’s Czech Republic. For centuries, the coexistence of German, Czechs and Jews shaped the culture of this region in the heart of Europe.
The museum was built right next door to the Sudeten German Haus, near the Gasteig cultural centre in downtown Munich. The sponsor is the Sudeten German Foundation. Under the patronage of the Free State of Bavaria, the foundation stone was laid on 16 September 2016 and the museum opened on 12 October 2020.
From 2016 to 2020, a team of academics, designers and media planners worked on the permanent exhibition. Through the authentic objects on display and the use of modern media technology, the exhibition tells the history of the region, its art and its culture.
With its light-coloured sandstone façade, the extraordinary new museum building, designed by the architecture firm pmp architekten, makes a bold statement from a site high on the banks of the River Isar.
The collection of the Sudeten German Museum is diverse. In both its material and thematic range, it reflects the history, traditions, and culture of the Sudeten Germans. A particular focus of the collection is on objects that were carried along during escape and expulsion.
Art (painting, drawings, sculpture)
Bohemian glass
Christmas cribs
Costume jewellery
Expulsion
Feather art
Graphic works
Handicrafts
Household goods
Insignia
Lace
Paintings
Photo albums
Sculpture
Popular piety
Porcelain
Postcards
Posters
Stamps
Textiles
Tools
Faustka, Bruno (postcards)
Friedrich, Otto (stamps)
Gockel, Roswitha (stained glass)
Günzler, Fritz (spa beakers)
Harasko (religious items)
Hausding, Maria (aragonite)
Korsch, Trude (paperweight)
Kulich (graphic works of Prague)
Pasold (inlays)
Pesch (rifle association medals)
Vohl-Selbmann, Margit
(spa beakers)
Fritsch, Waldemar
Grunwald, Max
Gruss, Franz
Heppner, Franz
Hoffmann-Aigner, Richard
Knoll, Gerhard
Kunz-Friebelung, Margarete
Lifka, Hans
Lohwasser, Kurt
Losert, Heribert
Mallener, Theodor
Mayer-Freiwaldau
Niesner, Wolfgang
Reinisch, Werner
Schönecker, Toni
Siegmüller, Hugo
Tschöpa, Jaroslav
Zindel, Gustav