Museum Five Continents vs Bombing of Schweinfurt Usage & Stats
Explore the Museum Five Continents and set off on a tour of all seven departments.
This app gives you intriguing insights into many of the selected objects. You can use it for our Highlight Tour or in the individual departments.
App Overview
Audio guide for 27 highlights at the Museum Five Continents
- Highlight Tour: Around the World in 80 Minutes
- Collection Tour
- Unguided tour of the museum
Object biographies, detailed views, zoomable images of the objects
General information and service information on visiting the museum
The app content is available in German and English.
The Museum Five Continents was founded in 1862 as the first ethnological museum in Germany. The collection of artefacts of everyday life, ritual objects and works of art which are preserved and continually expanded here reflect humanity’s cultural diversity. They build bridges from the past to the present day and open doors to other ways of life and viewpoints. The museum offers access to the cultural riches of the earth’s peoples in a way which is unique with Munich’s broad range of museums.
Based on our collections, we display the commonalities and differences of civilisations from countries in Africa, the Americas, of Asia, Australia, Oceania and Europe. We invite children and adults to become acquainted with a variety of civilizations and the people who shaped them. We encourage visitors to consider what may seem to be "strange" modes of thought, to reflect on points of view and to take away inspirations and new ideas for their own lives.
The Museum Fünf Kontinente provides opportunities for encounters, experiences and reflection …
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Historic Audio Walk in Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt, 1943: At the height of WWII, this center of ball bearing production so important to the German war effort becomes a focal point in world history. The Allies hope to immobilize the German armed forces by destroying the arms industry headquartered here from the air. The Nazi regime counters by erecting numerous bunker facilities and an impressive cordon of anti-aircraft weaponry around the city. Along with soldiers and prisoners of war, high school boys and girls from all over northern Bavaria are mobilized for the defense of Schweinfurt. The air raid on October 14th, 1943 goes down in history as “Black Thursday”, the greatest defeat ever suffered by US air power. But how did Schweinfurt’s residents experience these events, perhaps the most dramatic in the city’s history? We invite you to set off on a search for clues to answers for this question, based on the actual destinies of real individuals. The app takes you to the original sites where these things occurred. Streets and buildings, along with less conspicuous relics, continue to tell the story of these tragic events. Photos, vivid reports and archive material that has previously been largely ignored beckon you to discover this city’s history anew. The free smartphone app is aimed at an audience of all educational levels and age groups that has an interest in history. The app can be activated via the city’s official websites, at the Tourism Office and by scanning the QR codes posted at the designated sites.
The audio tour itself lasts approximately one hour. All in all, you should plan roughly two-and-a-half hours from start to finish.
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Museum Five Continents VS. 
Bombing of SchweinfurtDecember 19, 2024