Museums

Five Continents Museum (Museum Fünf Kontinente) has a collection of some 100,000 photographic documents, 100,000 books and 75 specialist journals and its own facilities for conservation, photography and exhibition technology with permanent exhibitions of the Art and Culture of the Asian, Americas, Africa, the Islamic World, Oceania and Japan.  

The museum (Ägyptisches Museum) offers an exhibition, that presents a clear understanding of the 5000 years of art and culture that make up Egypt’s fascinating history.

The museum is solely dedicated to ancient sculpture. Greek and Roman marble statues of the highest quality are presented in an ideal setting for these works of art. Together with the State Collections of Antiques on the south side of the Königsplatz, the Glyptothek possesses one of the most important collections of Greek and Roman … Read more » “Munich Glyptothek”

The residence (Münchner Residenz) is the former royal palace of the Bavarian monarchs of the House of Wittelsbach. The Residence is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to the public for its architecture, room decorations, and displays from the former royal collections  

The (Neue) Pinakothek is dedicated to modern and contemporary art, including key works from the neoclassicist and Romantic periods, art nouveau and Impressionism, the Nazarene brotherhood and major pioneers of modernism.  

The museum (Sammlung Schack) presents paintings from the nineteenth century and the (German) Romantic period in particular.   

The museum (Sammlung Goetz) is a collection of contemporary art in today’s artistic forms of representation. In addition to drawings, graphics, paintings, photographs and room-based installations, one of the collection’s main focuses is ‘time-based media’ such as video, film and multiple projections.