View Charlottenplatz, Stuttgart by StadtPalais – Museum für StuttgartStadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart
The StadtPalais – Museum for Stuttgart is a museum devoted to Stuttgart’s history opened in April 2018 in the Wilhelmspalais.
Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition of Stuttgart’s civic history explores the period from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day through many different lenses.
Visitors can learn more about Stuttgart and its inhabitants in a space of 900 m².
Stuttgart’s civic history // Permanent exhibition
City model
In the huge model of the city, modern Stuttgart can be enjoyed as a multi-media experience.
Stuttgarter Stadtgeschichten View by StadtPalais – Museum für StuttgartStadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart
Exhibits
The permanent exhibition “Stuttgarter Stadtgeschichten” (Stories from Stuttgart’s history) narrates the city’s history with the help of authentic exhibits.
From the social and technical progress of the rapidly growing royal capital to a city with a pollution problem. From the inventive spirits and the industrial city during the so-called “Gründerzeit”, the period when many enterprises were founded, to social commitment for the poor and sick and for working-class children given the chance to enjoy the fresh summer air in country resorts. The hard-won freedom of the press, the courageous gay rights movement, the Baader-Meinhof deaths, the Nazi period and the mystery surrounding the city’s foundation.
Football in Stuttgart
Officially named “Der Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e.V.” the sports club was founded in Bad Cannstatt and is the largest club in Baden-Württemberg.
Weissenhof Chair Prototype MR 20
Inspired by a legless chair by Mart Stam, in 1926 Mies van der Rohe designed the first free-swinging springy chairs using cold-bent steel pipes. Shown for the first time at the Weissenhof exhibition, it came to be known as the Weissenhof Chair. MR stands for Mies van der Rohe.
Alicia Amatriain's Ballet Slippers
In 1962 Stuttgart's Ballet directed by John Cranko won world fame with dancers Haydée, Cragun, Madsen, and Keil. One of its famous ballet school's prominent students is Alicia Amatriain. These slippers belonged to her.
Waldorf Toys
Waldorf education prefers simple toys that encourage vitality, creativity, and the imagination. In the 1920s Waldorf teachers from Stuttgart helped develop toys and materials for sale to the public.
Stuttgart 21
Sit it out? An altered city limits sign (the diagonal bar means you are leaving the city limits) became an emblem for opponents to the planned train station modification. Advocates of the new station peeled off the ubiquitous stickers and stuck them to this little stool.
Provenance Research
Since June 2016, the StadtPalais Museum – Museum for Stuttgart has been investigating the origins of the museum objects dating from the Nazi era with funding from the German Centre for Lost Cultural Property (DZK). The aim of the research is to find objects that were misappropriated from their former owners as a result of persecution by the Nazi state. Persecution-related dispossession is constituted when the objects were stolen, confiscated or sold under duress.
Chanukka torch
While the research focuses on Jewish property, it also covers the property of any persons, associations and institutions persecuted during the Nazi period.
Chanukka torch for the Jewish Feast of Lights.
Special exhibitions
In its various special exhibitions, the StadtPalais addresses topics relevant to Stuttgart.
The exhibitions take place both inside the StadtPalais and in the museum garden. From ballet to particulate matter, Wilhelm II, the Fantastic Four or an Escape exhibition about Stuttgart’s history – the choice of special exhibition themes could not be more varied.
Events
In addition to the permanent and special exhibitions, the StadtPalais offers an impressively diverse programme of side events.
Supporting program
From panel discussions to exhibition openings, concerts and digital live events – the StadtPalais has a lot to offer for people of all ages. The urban context is particularly well represented in the StadtPalais.
Guided tours
Visitors to the StadtPalais – Museum for Stuttgart can join different themed tours of the “Stuttgarter Stadtgeschichten” exhibition, the various special exhibitions as well as the Wilhelmspalais.
Museum restaurant
In the StadtPalais, “drinnen & draußen” looks after the culinary well-being of its guests – also well beyond the museum’s opening hours.
drinnen & draußen
As its name suggests, guests are served regional dishes both indoors and out until late in the evening. Thrilling events take place regularly at the weekends.
Enjoy the exceptional atmosphere of the StadtPalais “inside and out”, day and night.
The StadtPalais is located in the center of the city, in the immediate vicinity of the (2) ifa Gallery and the (3) Hotel Silber. We are right in the middle of Stuttgart's museum landscape - between the (4) Württemberg State Museum, (5) Museum Hegel-Haus, (6) Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, (7) Linden-Museum, (8) Württembergischer Kunstverein, (9) Staatsgalerie and the (10) Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg.
