MUCA - Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art
Former electricity substation and WWII air-raid bunker turned street art museum with over twelve hundred works.
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This guide to MUCA in Munich opens with collector Christian Utz trading an Andy Warhol print for an early stenciled work by the street artist Banksy, a swap that pushed him from pop-art collecting toward urban art nobody yet took seriously. It follows Utz and his wife Stephanie into a former electricity substation they turned into a museum in 2016, next door to a Second World War air raid shelter that later served as a bunker hotel and nightclub. Take in the more than twelve hundred works on the walls, from Banksy to Shepard Fairey, before you move on.
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