The Museum Quarter is filled with museums with amazing art pieces, natural history, and Egyptian relics just north of central Munich. I’ve listed some museums to check out while you’re here along with a few further afield including the expansive Deutsches Museum, which has 100,000 items in the fields of science and technology.
(My earlier post was just on museums and sights to see in the central part of the city: What to Do in Munich’s City Center)
MONEY SAVING HINT
Museums in the Museum Quarter and few others nearby are a €1 on Sundays and because we’re there for a few months, this will probably be our Sunday thing. DOLLAR MUSEUMS
Alte Pinkothek
It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and covers the old masters from the 14th to the 18th centuries. Here, milestones of the European painting tradition join to form a survey, in unique concentration, that spans the development from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Baroque, through to the late Rococo period.
Some artist and their paintings include Rembrandt’s “Descent from the Cross,” Rubens “The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus,” and El Greco’s “Disrobing of Christ” to name a few.
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10 am – 6 pm, Tuesday 10 am- 8 pm, closed Mondays.
Admission: €7, Reduced €5 and Sundays €1, €12 Day Pass
Address: Barer Str. 27, 80333 München, Germany
Neue Pinakothek
(CLOSED UNTIL 2025) Artwork from 1800 to 1920 including Romantic paintings along with world-class impressionist ones. Some artist and their paintings include Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” Walter Crane’s “Neptune’s Horses,” Manet’s “Breakfast in the Studio” to name a few. A selection of masterpieces of 19th-century art will be shown from the summer of 2019 on the ground floor of the Alte Pinakothek (East Wing) and in the Schack Collection.
Hours: Thursday – Monday, 10 am – 6 pm; Wednesdays, 10 am – 8 pm, Closed Tuesdays.
Admission: €7, Sundays €1, €12 Day Pass
Address: Barer Str. 29, 80799 München, Germany
Pinkothek der Moderne
Paintings in this huge museum cover the 20th century. This includes early 20th century to 1960, surrealism, 1960 to the present, installations, graphic arts, drawings, architecture, and design.
Hours: Tuesday- Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm; Thursday until 8 pm, Closed Mondays.
Admission: €10, Sundays €1, €12 Day Pass
Address: Barer Str. 40, 80333 München, Germany
Museum Brandhorst
Modern paintings, sculptures, photography, multimedia works and installations including Andy Warhol.
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm; Open to 8 pm on Thursdays, Closed Mondays.
Admission: €7, Reduced €5, Sunday €1
Address: Theresienstraße 35, 80333 München, Germany
Lenbachhus
The modern and contemporary museum includes the original villa and studio of painter Franz von Lenbach and works by Kandinsky, Klee and the Blue Rider movement.
Hours: Tuesdays, 10 am – 9 pm; Wednesday-Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm, Closed Mondays.
Admission: €10 – includes audioguide
Address: Luisenstraße 33, 80333 München, Germany
ART MUSEUMS NOTE: €12 day pass covers the three Pinakotheks, plus the Brandhorst, on a single day. A €29 combo-ticket covers them all with no time restriction. Tram #27 takes you right from Karlsplatz in central Munich to the Pinakothek stop.
Museum Reich der Kristalle Mineralogische Staatssammlung München
Displays gemstones, minerals, and glow in the dark crystals.
Hours: 1 pm- 5 pm, Tuesday-Sunday, Closed Mondays
Admission: €4
Address: Theresienstraße 41, 80333 München, Germany
Ägyptisches Museum (Egyptian Museum Munich)
Overview of 5,000 years of art and culture of ancient Egypt.
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – 8 pm, Sundays 10 am – 6 pm, Closed Mondays.
Admission: €7, Reduced €5, Sundays €1, Children up to 18 years are free.
Address: Gabelsbergerstraße 35, 80333 München, Germany
Day Tripping Berlin
Glyptothek — Museum of Greek and Roman sculpture is in the area but closed for renovations.
OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM QUARTER
Deutsches Museum
The collections are a vast array of science and technology from mining to atomic physics to caves to a magnified model of a human cell. They extend from the Stone Age to the present time. Other branches of the museum include the Verkehrszentrum near the Thereisenwiese and the Flugwerft Schleißheim, north of the city center.
Among the particular highlights of the Deutsches Museum are the first motorized aircraft built by the Wright brothers, the U1 submarine, the first program-controlled computer (Conrad Zuse’s Z3), and Diesel’s original engine at the main museum.
Decorative arts include plates with portraits ladies from Ludwig I’s “gallery of Beauty,” an early example of reproduction techniques onto porcelain.
In the Physics section, you can see Galileo’s workshop with a large collection of scientific equipment.
Pharmaceutics has an exhibit on a human cell magnified 350,000 times.
Kids’ Kingdom is an area for children 3 to 8 can learn about science and technology. Exhibits include a giant guitar, a fire engine along with big Lego blocks. It is in a temporary location on the ground floor since its lower level location is being redesigned until 2021.
Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum has the first motorcar by Karl Benz in the transport museum along with many other historic automobiles, buses and trains. This museum also has a play area for kids that includes a long slide that our son enjoyed going down several times.
Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim has a Douglas DC3 along with over 60 aircraft and helicopters in a historic hangar and huge glass exhibition halls. Nearby is Lustheim Palace so in visiting here you might make a day of it and checkout it, too!
Hours: 9 am – 5 pm daily All Museums
Admission: Main Museum Adults €14 Family ticket (up to 2 adults with their own children up to 17 years) € 29 Combined ticket Deutsches Museum + Verkehrszentrum + Flugwerft Schleissheim — no time limit € 21 Free Admission for children under 6 with adult admission. Planetarium in Main Museum €2. Verkehrszentrum €6. Flugwerft Schleißheim €6. Since we are here for three months and they have play areas I got the annual pass for €52.
Addresses:
Main Museum — Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München, Germany
Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum — Am Bavariapark 5, 80339 München, Germany
Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim — Effnerstraße 18, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
NS-Dokumentationszentrum München
Museum that focuses on Munich during World War I and World War II.
Hours: Daily 10 am – 7 pm, Closed Mondays
Admission: €5 and 50 percent reduced rates
Address: Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1, 80333 München, Germany
Museum Fünf Kontinente (Museum Five Continents)
Formerly State Museum of Ethnology was founded in 1862 and is the oldest of its kind in Germany. Today it holds about 160,000 ethnographical artifacts and masterpieces of non-European origin. The members of the Wittelsbach family, the Royal Dynasty of Bavaria, were the first collectors of ethnographical objects. In 1841 King Ludwig I of Bavaria bought a large collection of artifacts from India and Oceania.
Hours: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Admission: Adults €5, Reduced €4, Sundays €1, Children up to 15 years free
Address: Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 München, Germany
Haus Der Kunst
Art Museum that has temporary and traveling exhibits.
Hours: Daily 10 am – 8 pm, Thursdays until 10 pm.
Admission: €14, €10 Reduced, Teenagers under 18 €5 and children under 12 Free.
Address: Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 München, Germany
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum)
The museum was founded by King Maxmilian II of Bavaria in 1855. It houses a huge collection of European artifacts from the late antiquity until the early 20th century with particular strengths in the medieval through early modern periods.
Hours: Tuesday- Sunday 10 – 5 pm, Closed Mondays
Admission: Adults €7, Sundays €1, under 19 years of age free.
Address: Prinzregentenstraße 3, 80538 München, Germany
