Museum Penzberg, Art museum and architectural heritage monument in Penzberg, Germany.
Museum Penzberg occupies a renovated worker's residential building from 1873, with exhibition spaces arranged across multiple floors. The structure features dark clinker brick facades that distinguish its architectural presence.
The museum was founded in 1994 as the Stadtmuseum Penzberg, showing art and local history. From 2002 it focused on Heinrich Campendonk, and a 2014–2016 extension costing just over three million euros opened on 4 June 2016, when it was renamed Museum Penzberg – Sammlung Campendonk. Its building is a listed former miners' works house from the late 19th century.
The museum holds the world's largest collection of works by Heinrich Campendonk, who belonged to the Blauer Reiter circle and worked in Penzberg. A collector bought 87 oil paintings, watercolours, ink brush drawings and woodcuts for the museum in 2010; a further 200 works arrived for the 2016 reopening. A second focus is Gerhard Fietz of the group ZEN 49.
The museum is centrally located in Penzberg and easily accessible on foot or by public transport. Visitors should allow time to explore the multiple floors and exhibition areas at a comfortable pace.
One fully furnished apartment from the 1920s remains intact within the museum, showing how working-class residents actually lived. This preserved interior reveals genuine details of domestic life from that era.
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