Munich City Museum offers tour of the von Parish family's historic living rooms

The Munich City Museum is holding a guided tour of the historic living rooms of the von Parish family at Kemnatenstraße 50 on Monday 9 November, from 4pm to 4.30pm. The tour is titled "Historicism meets Art Nouveau".

The Von Parish Costume Library has been part of the Munich City Museum since 1970. It is housed in a villa not far from Nymphenburg Palace, built in 1900 and 1901 for the composer Friedrich Wilhelm von Schirach. The well-known Munich building firm of the Rank brothers planned and fitted out the house. The von Parish family bought it in 1916 and moved in with their large collection of costume pictures in 1936.

Because the building has changed hands only twice, the Rank brothers' interior design has survived almost entirely inside the listed villa. A renovation of the interiors carried out between 2019 and 2021 uncovered it again from beneath many layers of paint. The furnishings, heirlooms of the von Parish family from the 18th and 19th centuries in the historicist style, combine with the Art Nouveau interiors to striking effect.

On the tour, visitors can see the historic living rooms on the ground floor for themselves and learn more about the history of the house, the founding family and the collection.

Tickets cost 5 euros and are available at mstm-shop.gomus.de. Places are limited, and entry is only permitted 15 minutes before the tour begins. The tour is not step-free or otherwise accessible.