The Archaeological State Collection in Grünwald Castle is taking part in the 45th International Museum Day on Sunday, May 15th with a varied, free program of guided tours and hands-on activities. Elke Bujok, for example, reports on the life of the nuns from Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich behind the monastery walls in a guided tour through the exhibition in the castle. Because where the National Theater and Spatenhaus are located today, there was a well-known Franciscan convent until secularization in 1802 – with two associated nunneries from the 13th century, the Püttrich and Ridler convents. The tour starts at 10 a.m. and the tour lasts about 60 minutes.
The effects of the Grünwald Conference, at which the two dukes Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X met in the castle in 1522, are still noticeable today. The resistance to Lutheran reform efforts and the adherence to the “true faith” had far-reaching consequences for Bavaria and Europe. In short: Bavaria became the pioneer of the Counter-Reformation and, alongside Spain and Austria, a center of the Catholic world. In the exhibition in the castle courtyard and on the church forecourt near St. Peter and Paul, life-size figures provide information about the historic event. It is led by Roland Götz from the archive and library of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Start: 11.30 a.m.
Grünwald Castle, branch museum of the Archaeological State Collection, towers high above the Isar. A guided tour illuminates individual components as well as the entire system. Harald Schulze from the Archaeological State Collection goes into the special exhibition “500 Years of the Grünwald Conference” in the inner courtyard, before the common path leads to the permanent exhibition inside the building. The tour of the castle starts at 12 noon. You can find out more about other program items at www.archaeologie-bayern.de.