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Opening hours
Tuesday and Thursday:
2–6 p.m. (November–February: 2–5 p.m.)
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays:
11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
We also offer guided tours via the Internet.
For this you need a computer or a cell phone with Internet
and the ZOOM program.
A museum educator will then guide you through the museum.
You see him on the screen.
He tells you the story of Levi and his jeans.
You can also ask him questions.
So you can visit the museum from home.
Write to us at
levi-strauss-museum@buttenheim.de
or
buchungsanfrage@agil-bamberg.de
Entrance fees
Adults: €5
Pupils, students, people with disabilities: €2.50
Groups of 20 or more: €4
Family rate (2 adults, 2 children aged 6 and over): €10
Groups please register.
How to reach us
Geburtshaus Levi Strauss Museum
Marktstraße 31-33
96155 Buttenheim
Phone number: 0 95 45 – 44 26 02 (museum)
or: 0 95 45 – 4 40 99 36 (administration)
Museumsshop
Phone number: 0 95 45 – 339
Telefax: 0 95 45 – 18 78
E-Mail: levi-strauss-museum@buttenheim.de
Unfortunately, our house is not barrier-free.
Museum-Shop
The museum store is located in the entrance area.
You can buy clothes and books there
There are also other nice things and souvenirs.
History of the museum
At the Levi Strauss Museum in Buttenheim, everything revolves around the famous jeans.
Levi was born here in 1829. Nobody knew that for a long time.
Only a letter from America changed that.
The house where Levi was born is very old and was almost destroyed.
The house almost had to be demolished. But they wanted to keep it.
It was repaired and a museum was set up.
Come in!
Levi and his family lived on the ground floor.
There we show the story of his parents, grandparents and siblings.
And you will learn about the life of the Jews in Buttenheim.
We will show you pictures, photos and a short movie.
On the upper floor you will learn about jeans,
about the material from which jeans are made and why they are blue.
And you can see jeans that are almost 100 years old.
There are also other exhibits on the top floor,
for example a guitar.
We have also set up a small movie theater.
There you can watch short films about jeans.
The museum has its own room for exhibitions.
Sometimes events are also held there.
There are also headphones in the museum.
You can use them to listen to the story of Levi and his jeans.
For young and old!
We offer guided tours for children.
School classes are also welcome.
Together with a teacher
visit the museum and do handicrafts.
Things can also be touched.
This is how you get to know the life of Levi
and his jeans.
Well done!
Some people like the museum very much.
The museum has even been awarded 3 prizes.
Schmuckziegel
des Fränkische-
Schweiz-Vereins
The museum has a lot of friends
The Friends of the Museum have founded their own association.
The association provides help and support.
It also organizes events.
Many other people and companies also help the museum.
Link to supporters, sponsors and partners
The life of Levi Strauss
| 1829 | Levi is born |
| 1846 | Levi’s father dies |
| 1848 | Levi goes to America with his mother and siblings |
| 1848 – 1853 | Levi lives in New York |
| 1853 | Levi moves to San Francisco and opens a store There he sells fabrics, clothes, toothbrushes, buttons |
| 1872 | Levi meets Jacob Davis |
| 1873 | Levi invents jeans with Jacob Davis |
| 1902 | Levi dies in San Francisco |
History of the jeans trousers
| 1873 | Levi and Jacob Davis invent the jeans trousers |
| 1886 | Levi invents the picture in which 2 horses trying to tear a pair of jeans |
| 1890 | Levi gives his jeans numbers (e.g. 501) |
| 1901 | Jeans trousers have 2 pockets at the back |
| 1922 | Jeans trousers get belt loops |
| 1934 | The first jeans specifically for women are made |
| 1936 | Jeans trousers are given a red flag |
| 1954 | The jeans trousers get a zipper closure |
| 1960 | The word “jeans” is introduced |
| 1981 | The jeans number 501 for women is created |
| 1996 | Levi’s remakes jeans based on old models |
| 2006 | The jeans trousers get connections for a small Ipod, a portable music player |
| 2015 | Levi’s jeans are produced in a particularly environmentally friendly way |
| 2017 | There are now denim jackets with a connection for a cell phone |