Because the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum is being renovated, it will close for 18 months. Apparently, because in Munich it could easily turn into five years. Time for a journey through this wonderfully silly world.
It’s difficult to say what you’ll miss most when the closed door period begins. Is it the dark spiral staircase, frightening for those suffering from claustrophobia, from the wall of which the legs of a bricklayer protrude, who, as the attached information board reveals, plastered himself “in his overzealous expansion of this museum”? Or is it the wealth of photos, audio and film documents, of brilliant pieces of higher nonsense, that provide an illuminating look at the life and the brilliantly conceived work of the humor virtuoso and his congenial partner? Or maybe the Turmstüberl up in the south tower of the Isartor, where guests sit on original Thonet chairs from the former bohemian headquarters “Café Stefanie” and enjoy their white sausages? Yes, yes and yes – you will miss it, everything and more, when the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum closes on October 7th – supposedly for about 18 months, but in Munich it can easily turn into five or ten years.