Munich Insider Tip: "Sweet Brown Snail" by Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy in front of the Wirtshaus am Bavariapark and the Verkehrszentrum - Railway Museum ...
Beer garden at Bavariapark and snail sculpture by Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy on Theresienhöhe in Munich (behind the Bavaria)
"Sweet Brown Snail" - AN INSIDER TIP for Munich visitors and vacationers in Bavaria (Deutsche Version)
Munich. AN INSIDER TIP for Munich visitors and vacationers in Bavaria - there's always space here and, compared to the city center and its squares, it's "quite" busy. Our photo was taken this afternoon at 5 p.m.: Behind the Bavaria, above the Oktoberfest meadow (Oktoberfestwiese), lies the Old Fairgrounds of the Bavarian capital. Here, in addition to a beautiful beer garden (Biergarten) with a playground, you'll also find a 4.50-meter-high snail sculpture. The "Sweet Brown Snail" stands on the 23,000-square-meter square between the Congress Hall and the Verkehrszentrum and fits perfectly into its spacious surroundings. As an art-in-architecture project, the well-known American artists Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy created this object in 2003, which ironically reflects the mobility illustrated in the transport center through the portable snail shell.
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| Alter Messeplatz in Munich - Snail sculpture: "Sweet Brown Snail" by Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy, Munich Theresienhöhe, Photo: A. Waess - 18. August 2025 |
In a neutral gray, the snail's body with its brick-colored, red snail shell stands out from the light limestone from the Altmühl Valley (Altmühltal), which occupies the entire space between the Congress Hall and the Transport Center.
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| Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum on the Theresienhöhe, photo: Helga Waess - 18. August 2025 |
And humanity's longing for speed, which resonates in the exhibition objects of the traffic center on Theresienhöhe, is also turned into its opposite by the slowness inherent in animals.
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| "Sweet Brown Snail" by Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy, Munich Theresienhöhe, Photo: Helga Waess Pressefoto-Archiv |
