Rockmuseum Munich

The Rockmuseum Munich stood on the viewing platform of the Olympiaturm in Munich from 2004 to 2021. It called itself the highest rock museum in the world. Exhibits included photographs, tickets, musical instruments, posters and stage costumes from artists such as Jim Morrison, Freddie Mercury, Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones. A fully working 1960s jukebox with visible pick-up and playback mechanics was also on display. The museum’s founders and directors were Herbert Hauke and Arno Frank Eser. Its small exhibition space could show only about two per cent of the entire collection. Alongside the permanent display opened in 2004, the museum hosted concerts, special exhibitions and took part in crime fiction festivals. Visitors found memorabilia arranged on the tower’s viewing deck. The jukebox let them watch the record arm select and play tracks. Items from major acts shared the limited space with posters and photographs. The setting combined music history with a high-altitude city view. After seventeen years the museum closed at the end of 2021.