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District Office Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
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Press release

dated 06.05.2026, No. 61

International Museum Day on May 17, 2026

Actions in the Tölzer Land - www.toelzer-land.de/museumstag-2026

District of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen. On International Museum Day on Sunday, May 17, 2026, numerous museums in the district will open their doors. A visit is worthwhile, the topics are varied.

Bad Tölz town museum

Free admission, open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Special: guided tours on request for groups of friends

On International Museum Day, all visitors have free admission to the Bad Tölz City Museum. In addition, curator-guided tours are offered for friends. Everyone is welcome - the main thing is that they come as a group of friends. Even training groups from the dog school can come to the museum on International Museum Day with their two-legged and four-legged friends for a special tour.

Competition: The most original registration will win a free guided tour. Interested parties should register via the online form www.bad-toelz.de/stadtmuseumfuehrungen and creatively describe why their group deserves a special guided tour (registration deadline: May 10, 2026).

  • Maximum 15 people per group.
  • The total number of guided tours is limited.
  • Admission remains free; the regular tour fee is 45 euros (not applicable for the winning group)

 

BADEHAUS memorial site

Public guided tour on International Museum Day
Sunday, May 17, 2026, 2 to 3:30 pm
Erinnerungsort BADEHAUS, Kolpingplatz 1, 82515 Wolfratshausen-Waldram
Cost: 6 euros admission; plus 6 euros admission per person for the public guided tour

The tour provides an insight into the history of the site and allows you to talk to members of our dedicated tour team. Afterwards, there is the opportunity to round off the visit with coffee and cake in our Sunday museum café.

You can also visit the current special exhibition "Football, boxing, gymnastics - sport in Föhrenwald and Waldram", which provides a multifaceted insight into sport in the Jewish displaced persons camp in Föhrenwald and in the later displaced persons settlement in Waldram.

In addition, audio guides are available for adults and young people, providing an in-depth and age-appropriate tour of the exhibition.

 

Museum Wolfratshausen 

Extended opening hours from 12 noon to 5 p.m.,
Admission free
There are good connections via the X-bus line and S-Bahn, information on the Wolfratshausen Museum website.

 

Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See

Free admission, including free workshop and guided tours

1 to 5 p.m.: Open studio workshop in the BlauRaum: The studio is open to anyone who wants to get creative before or after the museum tour. It is supervised by experienced art educators.

2.30 pm: Public guided tour: Find out more about the museum, Franz Marc and the Blue Rider, the collection and current special exhibitions. Every Sunday, experienced art historians guide you through the museum with different focuses. The group size is limited to a maximum of 20 participants.

April 26 - July 29: Exhibition: Fantasy & Form. Adolf Erbslöh's path to modernity: Bright colors, clear lines: Discover Adolf Erbslöh and his unmistakable visual language with around 40 rarely shown paintings

 

Glentleiten Open-Air Museum

Free admission for all visitors

2 pm: Reading "A village like any other" by Sepp Dürr, read by Christian Huber
Description: Sepp Dürr's posthumously published memoirs of his upbringing in Germering are well worth reading. In the book, he unfolds the history of the rural world after the Second World War. Sepp Dürr writes about a village like many in Bavaria and how many fared. He tells of this time of the day before yesterday, when Germering was already in the midst of being changed from the ground up, but the old district was still far from knowing that it was no longer a farming village. Sepp Dürr, who was born in Munich in 1953 and died in Germering in 2023, was a long-standing leader of the Green Party in the Bavarian state parliament. As a committed politician, he shaped Bavarian politics for over two decades, from 1998 to 2018, and was particularly committed to a modern definition of home.

 

Offers in the Don Bosco monastery Benediktbeuern

Exhibitions:

 

Guided tours of the monastery at 1 pm and 2.30 pm:
Venue: Meeting point at the monastery gate

The monastery tour shows:

  • Gothic cloister with current art exhibition
  • Baroque chapter house
  • Monastery wine cellar with exhibition on the monastery
  • Gothic Hall | Monastery Café
  • Old Library | Dining Room
  • Basilica of St. Benedict, gallery area
  • Arcade courtyard construction site with information on restoration after the storm

The proceeds from the guided tours go towards youth work at the monastery, prices:
Adults: €4.50 / young people aged 16 to 18, severely disabled: €3
Groups of 8 or more: €4 per person; groups of up to 8 people a flat rate of €32
Children's and youth groups, school classes: €25 / group

Due to the restoration work following the storm in August 2023, not all areas of the complex are yet accessible, and the tour is currently only partially barrier-free. Further information: http://www.kloster-benediktbeuern.de/Kloster/Fuehrungen2

Historic Fraunhofer glassworks and museum 

Open from 9 am - 4 pm The famous optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) achieved his groundbreaking successes in Benediktbeuern: he developed the streak-free flint glass and discovered the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum, which were named after him. After secularization, the manufacturer Joseph von Utzschneider acquired the monastery buildings in 1805 and set up a glassworks for the production of utility glass and optical glass as well as an optical institute. Joseph von Fraunhofer worked here from 1807 to 1819. Today, his former workplace is home to a museum. The exhibition in the historic glassworks includes two large melting furnaces with agitators, tools for glass and metal processing, optical instruments and informative display boards.

Good to know: Museum tour by public transport

The MVV Museum Tour invites you to make exciting discoveries beyond the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen. For all those who want to discover culture and history conveniently by public transport, the free MVV Museum Tour folding map serves as a practical travel guide, describing the museums and how to get there by public transport. There are two museums on the route in the Tölzer Land region: the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See is easily accessible from Kochel train station by taking bus no. 328 to the Franz Marc Museum stop. The BADEHAUS memorial site in Wolfratshausen is not far from the Waldram stop (e.g. express bus X970 or other bus lines). Other museums that can be reached by MVV are the Wolfratshausen Museum, the Geretsried City Museum, the Tölz City Museum and the Glentleiten Open-Air Museum. Information and timetables can be found at www.mvv-muenchen.de/museumstour or at the local tourist information offices

Tip at the end

Walchensee Power Plant Visitor Center: Opening hours during the season (this year until November 8, 2026) Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. Free admission.

Marlis Peischer
Press Officer / Head of the Press Office
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen District Office