500 × 500 Metres 5,000 Years Art × Culture × Knowledge = Experience3
4 Editorial 500 × 500 metres 16 Museums and Exhibition Institutions An ensemble unique in the world: 31 museums, institutions 130 Cultural Institutions and institutes of higher learning, as well as more than 142 Universities 40 galleries. One of the most important locations for culture 146 Galleries in Europe. 148 Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung 150 Words of Welcome 154 Förderkreis Kunstareal 159 Imprint 160 Map of the Kunstareal München 5,000 years Only a few steps from the high culture of Egypt to antiquity and contemporary art. A cultural foray between the worlds. Art × Culture × Knowledge = Experience3 Room to think, open spaces, room to live: a pulsing Extract connection in the heart of Munich. A place to participate, Where do enjoy and discover. I find what? Overview info Page 160 4 Editorial 5 What if there were a place where all conti- consisting of enthusiasm, courage, and nents, cultures, and eras flowed together curiosity, which at the same time allows for into a single new world. An area in which argument and friction, because only thus we could move freely with our thoughts, can something new arise in art, culture, longings, and senses. That helps us to con- and science. A living space that brings sciously comprehend the world we live in, us human beings into contact with one with all its contradictions. That bears the another, in all our diversity, that makes our entire history of humankind within it: past, encounters themselves works of art, plac- present, future, where we come from, who ing everything in a relationship with one we are, and where we are going, what another.
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