Introducing the NAWAREUM

Ansicht des NAWAREUMs von der Gartenseite. Die Totalaufnahme enthält den grünen Garten, die gräuliche Holzfassade des Museums, sowie den blauen Himmel.
Aerial view of the NAWAREUM with the campus of the KoNaRo - Center of Excellence for Renewable Resources.
© Herbert Stolz

Our beginnings

The NAWAREUM is part of the Technology and Support Center (TFZ), a research institution of the Free State of Bavaria. Research at the TFZ aims to drive the energy and resource transition, helping to protect the environment and climate. The TFZ, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and C.A.R.M.E.N. e.V. all work together in the Center of Excellence for Renewable Resources (KoNaRo).

The KoNaRo has been informing about renewable resources in an exhibition since 2003. For a while, the TFZ had aspired to inform the public even more broadly and intensively about topics related to the energy and resource transition. Dr. Bernhard Widmann, head of the TFZ, initiated the idea for the NAWAREUM at the end of 2011.

Dr. Bernhard Widmann, head of the TFZ, smiles at the camera inside the NAWAREUM.

Dr. Bernhard Widmann, head of the TFZ

In 2013, the Bavarian government approved the project with the following key elements: A permanent exhibition that is as interactive as possible, alternating special exhibitions, comprehensive advisory services and educational programs, as well as events and tourism offers to spark the interest of visitors and inform them in a non-judgmental manner.

Numerous experts from TFZ, C.A.R.M.E.N. e.V., and TUM Campus Straubing supported the project with contents for the exhibition, and the project team was gradually expanded with new positions.

The interactive museum is financed in equal parts by the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture, and Forestry and the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy.