The Deutsches Museum in Munich

[Toblacher]

Can someone confirm that this present-day hall (link below) in Munich (in the Deutsches Museum) is
the same one in which the M8 was premiered? 

I think I remember reading somewhere that is was.  It was damaged during the war and rebuilt.

Comparing it to the photo of the 1910 rehearsal (which we have all seen, I'm sure), it appears that the today's
hall is lower (not as high from roof to floor), and there are support cross-beams across the width of the hall. 
The windows though appear exactly the same.  I'd like to visit this someday if it is!


http://www.deutsches-museum.de/fileadmin/Content/Presse/2008/Bilder08/bavaria1.jpg

[barry guerrero]

Interesting. I didn't think that that particular building had survived the war at all. It sure looks like the real McCoy.

[mike bosworth]

It is indeed one and the same building.  Following is a post I made to the M-List late last year:

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See the link below regarding the recent exhibit at the historic
Messehallen in Munich:

http://www.deutsches-museum.de/presse/presse-2008/messehallen

The exhibit 'Bavaria-Dampftopf, Mahlers Achte und die Mondrakete'
highlighted the use of the exhibition halls over the past 100 years:

"The changeable utilization of the Halls runs from the first
exhibit "Munich 1908" through the world premiere of Mahler's Eighth
Symphony to use as a grain warehouse in wartime or for the Eucharistic
World Congress in the 1960s"...

[Die wechselvolle Nutzung der Hallen reicht von der ersten
Ausstellung „München 1908“ über die Uraufführung von Mahlers Achter
Symphonie bis zum Haferlager in Kriegszeiten oder dem Eucharistischen
Weltkongress in den 1960er Jahren"]

I don't suppose the Deutsches-Museum would be willing to pull out the
transport exhibits for a 100th anniversary performance in September 2010?

Mike Bosworth
Hanoi