Mathias Pfeil is Bavaria’s top monument conservator. A conversation about old Munich, the planned skyscrapers at the Paketposthalle and the question of why the mine in the Deutsches Museum has to be preserved.
The office of the General Curator can be reached via the back entrance. When Mathias Pfeil took office in 2014, he didn’t want to have to walk past the “Gallery of Ancestors” every day, with the portraits of all his predecessors since 1908 – “all serious faces in black and white,” as he says. He moved to the outbuilding.