The Folklore Museum was opened in 1924 in the Monatsschlössl in Hellbrunn. One hundred years later, we invite you to join us on a journey back to the beginnings of our museum. Who created the exhibition only six years after the end of the First World War, and with what ideas and considerations?

Looking back at the museum’s founding highlights the many changes that have taken place over the past 100 years. Not only in folklore studies do we approach themes, terms, and objects differently today than the museum’s founders once did. The exhibition aims to make this visible—specifically through encounters with collection objects that were among the very first items in the Folklore Museum in 1924.