Museum Villa Stuck

The Museum Villa Stuck in Munich's Haidhausen district occupies the former home and studio of the painter Franz von Stuck. The neoclassical ensemble, which consists of the villa, a studio building added later, and an artist's garden, was designed by Stuck himself. While the facades are neoclassical in style, the interiors are Art Nouveau. With it, Stuck realized his vision of a modern total work of art, for which he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Munich shortly before his death. In front of the entrance stands a large Amazon sculpture, cast in 1935 from a plaster model made in 1913. The adjoining artist's garden was laid out as a sculpture garden modeled on ancient villas and was largely restored in the 2000s. It is divided into several intimate garden rooms, characterized by fountains, stelae, and a pergola.

The museum's history began in the 1960s, when the Stuck family sold the building to Hans Joachim and Amélie Ziersch, who committed to creating a museum there. After extensive renovations, the house opened in 1968 under the auspices of the Stuck-Jugendstil-Verein. In 1991, the Zierschs donated the villa to the City of Munich, which in 1992 designated it the city's third municipal museum, alongside the Stadtmuseum and the Lenbachhaus. Since then, the Museum Villa Stuck has been a foundation of the state capital. Today, you can tour the historic living and studio rooms, which are furnished with paintings, sculptures, and applied-arts objects from around 1900.

In addition to the permanent presentation of Franz von Stuck's works, the museum regularly hosts special exhibitions on the fine and applied arts of the turn of the century as well as contemporary positions. An extensive renovation between 1998 and 2005 modernized the infrastructure, including the creation of a bright entrance hall and the restoration of the studio building to its original state. The New Studio was renovated so that its levels are once again openly connected. The museum is currently undergoing its third major renovation, with exhibitions held temporarily in a renovated building on Goethestraße that received the BDA Prize Bavaria 2025.