AT A GLANCE
Why go?
Tucked in the small village of Oberdießen, part of the Unterdießen community south of Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria, the Malura Museum is the intimate, hand-built home of the painter Oswald Malura (1906–2003). What began in the late 1970s when a 71-year-old artist bought a crumbling old farmhouse and, through years of his own labour, transformed it into a cultural centre, finally opened as a museum in 1993 after a full renovation.↗↗↗
Today three floors trace the arc of Malura's long, restless life, from his early academic paintings to his colourful years in India and his post-war abstraction. Yet this is more than a one-man collection: it is a living meeting place, hosting rotating shows by other artists, readings, concerts and workshops, with a café serving coffee and homemade cake. The whole place embodies Malura's lifelong dream of art as a bridge between nations, generations and walks of life.↗↗
From an Old Farmhouse to a Cultural Home
The story of the building is inseparable from the man who made it. In the late 1970s Oswald Malura acquired an old peasant farmhouse in Oberdießen and, already in his seventies, rebuilt it single-handedly into a centre for art and encounter. A comprehensive renovation turned that personal project into the Malura Museum in 1993, a working institution rather than a polished showcase — which is part of its charm.
