From Congress Hall to Forum of the Future

Sample space in a prime downtown location: The Forum building on Ludwigsbrücke has a turbulent past, is currently being given a new lease of life, and is heading for a modern future in and for dialog with society. A brief overview of the building’s history and prospects:

• 1928 Laying of the foundation stone
• 1932 Completion of shell
• 1935 Opening of the hall building for congresses, scientific lectures (with experimental demonstrations), concerts, banquets and festivities.
• 1944/45 heavy damage by incendiary and demolition bombs during the Second World War
• 1945 First use from December by the U.S. military government under the name “Jubilee Hall” (sports and variety events)
• 1946 January: Reopening. The income from the rental should help finance the reconstruction of the entire museum.
• 1955 The forum is fully restored. In the following decades it is used as a venue for concerts (from classical to rock and pop), congresses, fashion shows and festivals.
• 1989 Decision to privatize and transform the building into the “Forum of Technology” (with planetarium and Imax cinema)
• 1992 November: Opening of the “Forum of Technology”
• 2001 Renaming to ”Amazeum“
• 2003 Renaming to ”Forum am Deutschen Museum“
• 2005 End of the Imax era. In the fall, opening of Munich‘s first digital cinema (from 2007 also with 3D technology)
• 2010 Cessation of cinema operations due to unprofitability, closure of the event areas
  July: Repurchase of the building by the Deutsches Museum
• 2015 December: Cabinet decision for a new concert hall in the factory district
• 2016 Preparation of an interim use
• 2017 March 4: Opening of the event space with the Munich Creative Business Week.
  End of April: Opening of the new gastronomy areas (Blitz Restaurant and Club)
• 2018 Opening of the ”TUMLab Forum“
• 2022 Opening of the “Forum of the Future”: an open experiential, creative and discussion room for knowledge transfer and technological social dialog; regular events, exhibitions, actions are planned
• 2025 OIpening of the Future Box

Event spaces and rooms in the Forum of the Future:
Level -1:
- AI Factory of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence at TUM
Level 0:
- Future Box
- Experience Center (700 square meters).
- Blitz Club
- Blitz Restaurant with beer garden
- Forum Courtyard (open air yard)
Level 1:
- Streaming Dome in the former planetarium for up to 300 people
- Former Imax cinema with up to 330 seats
- TUMLab Forum (about 150 square meters)
- TUM AI.Factory (30 office workstations)