Deutsches Museum The largest museum of technology and natural sciences in the world, with over 13 acres of exhibitions containing invaluable original machines and equipment, models and reconstructions, from classical mechanics to telecommunications, from a full-size reconstructed coal mine to space travel technology.
Webpage of the museum Address: Auf der Isarinsel (Ludwigsbrücke) Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 17 91 fax= URL: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/e_index.htm
Residenz-Museum Built as of 1385, the main city residence of the Wittelsbach dynasty is breathtaking in its size and diversity.
Address: Residenz, (entrance) Max-Josef-Platz 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 06 71 fax=
Residence Treasure Chamber Crowns, gems, examples of the goldsmith's art and precious stones spanning ten centuries.
Address: Entrance Max-Josef-Platz 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 06 71 fax=
Glyptothek Collection of Greek and Roman sculpture.
Address: Königsplatz 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 28 61 00 fax=
Munich Municipal Museum An eye-opening gallery, photo-gadget collection and an exotic assemblage of musical instruments are among some of the whimsical permanent displays, complemented by unconventional temporary exhibits.
Address: Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 1 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 233-223 70
Valentin Musäum Museum and bar with folk music in the Isartor (Isar Gate). A permanent exhibition about the two Munich comedians Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt. Very strange and humorous.
Address: Im Isartor, Tel: +49 (0)89 - 22 32 66 fax=
BMW Museum The exhibition ZEITMOTOR (Time Machine) surveys motorized transport past and present, and even includes a look ahead to the year 2030. 100 exhibits, video films, slide shows and a 70mm film form the core of the exhibition.
Address: Petuelring 130 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 38 22-33 07 fax=
SiemensForum The Siemens Museum contains exhibitions of electrical engineering, electronics and microelectronics from their beginnings up to the present day. The museum's motto is: "Understanding and experiencing technology". Visitors can operate many of the exhibits themselves. WEBPAGE Address: Prannerstraße 10 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 34-26 60 fax= URL: http://w2.siemens.de/siemensforum/d_home.htm
Municipal Gallery Ornate Florentine-style villa housing the Lenbach art collection; Munich painters from the Gothic era to the present, including Kobell, Spitzweg, Leibl, Corinth, etc.; the internationally acclaimed "Blue Rider" collection; Kandinsky, Klee, Marc, Macke, Münter; modern art.
Address: Luisenstraße 33 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 233-0320 and 233-32000
Alte Pinakothek After a long period of urgent renovation work the Alte Pinakothek is now open again. This largest new museum building in Bavaria since the end of the war houses now four museums under one roof: the State Gallery of Modern Art, the New Collection with the areas industrial design, graphic design and applied art, the Architecture Museum and the State Graphic Collection. Here you can admire paintings from old german masters and much more - represented in an extraordinary impressing architecture.
Address: Barer Straße 29 Tel: +49 (0)89 23 80 50 fax=+49 (0)89 23 80 51 18
Neue Pinakothek (New Art Gallery) European paintings and sculptures from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Address: Barer Straße 29 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 38 05-195 fax=
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst International paintings and sculptures from the 20th century.
Address: Prinzregentenstraße 1 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 27 10 fax=
Forum der Technik (Technology Forum) Germany's first IMAX cinema, in which films are shown on a screen 52 feet high and 72 feet wide; a unique cinematic experience. Since Fall 1993, the Forum now also includes the most modern planetarium in the world.
Address: Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1 (admission via Ludwigsbrücke) Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 11 25-0 fax=
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Being closed for renovation the Kunsthalle reopened june 1st 2001 with an exhibition about "Realism in the 1920's" showing not only the various aspects of Realism in Europe, but also developments over the same timeperiod in America (for detailed exhibition information see the hypo-webpage). With 1185 square metres purely for exhibits, the new building is just one third as large again as the old Exhibition Hall. Entry is from Theatinerstraße at the entrance to Perusahof.
The building was designed by Herzog and de Meuron, renowned Swiss architects whose work on the Modern Tate Gallery in London. A generously proportioned stairway leads past the Salvator Passage with its hanging gardens, into the second floor and the lounge of the Exhibition Hall. The reception area, including entrance, foyer and cloakroom, as well as a café and shop, are open to the public.
Opening times: 10 am - 8 pm daily
Entrance fees: Regular: DM 14,- (7,15 Euro)
Groups of 10 or more persons, pensioners: DM 12,- (6,15 Euro)
Schoolchildren, students, unemployed: DM 8,- (4 Euro)
Remark: On every Monday, not falling on a Bank Holiday, all entrance fees will be reduced by half. Address: Theatinerstraße 8 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 22 44 12 fax=+49 (0)89 - 29 16 09 81 URL: http://www.hypo-kunsthalle.de
Museum of Mankind and Nature One of Munich's newest museums is a must for inquisitive minds. Interactive exhibitions intrigue and delight you while you learn about the wonders of natural science. Covering such diversified topics as the workings of the mind to the earth's creation, permanent and special exhibits are friendly, fun and challenging for all ages.
Address: Schloss Nymphenburg (nord wing) Tel: +49 (0)89 - 17 64 94 fax=
Altes Residenztheater (Old Residence Theater) Enchanting rococo theater named after its architect, Francois Cuvilliés.
Address: Residenzstrasse 1 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 90 67-1 fax=
State Collection of Egyptian Art Ancient Egyptian works of art from prehistoric times through the classical periods up to the greco-roman era.
Address: Residenz, entrance Hofgartenstrasse Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 85 46 fax=
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum) European art, crafts and folklore from the Middle Ages to the 20th century
Address: Prinzregentenstraße 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 16 81 fax=
Deutsches Museum The largest museum of technology and natural sciences in the world, with over 13 acres of exhibitions containing invaluable original machines and equipment, models and reconstructions, from classical mechanics to telecommunications, from a full-size reconstructed coal mine to space travel technology.
Webpage of the museum Address: Auf der Isarinsel (Ludwigsbrücke) Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 17 91 fax= URL: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/e_index.htm
Residenz-Museum Built as of 1385, the main city residence of the Wittelsbach dynasty is breathtaking in its size and diversity.
Address: Residenz, (entrance) Max-Josef-Platz 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 06 71 fax=
Residence Treasure Chamber Crowns, gems, examples of the goldsmith's art and precious stones spanning ten centuries.
Address: Entrance Max-Josef-Platz 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 06 71 fax=
Glyptothek Collection of Greek and Roman sculpture.
Address: Königsplatz 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 28 61 00 fax=
Munich Municipal Museum An eye-opening gallery, photo-gadget collection and an exotic assemblage of musical instruments are among some of the whimsical permanent displays, complemented by unconventional temporary exhibits.
Address: Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 1 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 233-223 70
Valentin Musäum Museum and bar with folk music in the Isartor (Isar Gate). A permanent exhibition about the two Munich comedians Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt. Very strange and humorous.
Address: Im Isartor, Tel: +49 (0)89 - 22 32 66 fax=
BMW Museum The exhibition ZEITMOTOR (Time Machine) surveys motorized transport past and present, and even includes a look ahead to the year 2030. 100 exhibits, video films, slide shows and a 70mm film form the core of the exhibition.
Address: Petuelring 130 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 38 22-33 07 fax=
SiemensForum The Siemens Museum contains exhibitions of electrical engineering, electronics and microelectronics from their beginnings up to the present day. The museum's motto is: "Understanding and experiencing technology". Visitors can operate many of the exhibits themselves. WEBPAGE Address: Prannerstraße 10 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 34-26 60 fax= URL: http://w2.siemens.de/siemensforum/d_home.htm
Municipal Gallery Ornate Florentine-style villa housing the Lenbach art collection; Munich painters from the Gothic era to the present, including Kobell, Spitzweg, Leibl, Corinth, etc.; the internationally acclaimed "Blue Rider" collection; Kandinsky, Klee, Marc, Macke, Münter; modern art.
Address: Luisenstraße 33 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 233-0320 and 233-32000
Alte Pinakothek After a long period of urgent renovation work the Alte Pinakothek is now open again. This largest new museum building in Bavaria since the end of the war houses now four museums under one roof: the State Gallery of Modern Art, the New Collection with the areas industrial design, graphic design and applied art, the Architecture Museum and the State Graphic Collection. Here you can admire paintings from old german masters and much more - represented in an extraordinary impressing architecture.
Address: Barer Straße 29 Tel: +49 (0)89 23 80 50 fax=+49 (0)89 23 80 51 18
Neue Pinakothek (New Art Gallery) European paintings and sculptures from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Address: Barer Straße 29 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 38 05-195 fax=
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst International paintings and sculptures from the 20th century.
Address: Prinzregentenstraße 1 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 27 10 fax=
Forum der Technik (Technology Forum) Germany's first IMAX cinema, in which films are shown on a screen 52 feet high and 72 feet wide; a unique cinematic experience. Since Fall 1993, the Forum now also includes the most modern planetarium in the world.
Address: Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1 (admission via Ludwigsbrücke) Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 11 25-0 fax=
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Being closed for renovation the Kunsthalle reopened june 1st 2001 with an exhibition about "Realism in the 1920's" showing not only the various aspects of Realism in Europe, but also developments over the same timeperiod in America (for detailed exhibition information see the hypo-webpage). With 1185 square metres purely for exhibits, the new building is just one third as large again as the old Exhibition Hall. Entry is from Theatinerstraße at the entrance to Perusahof.
The building was designed by Herzog and de Meuron, renowned Swiss architects whose work on the Modern Tate Gallery in London. A generously proportioned stairway leads past the Salvator Passage with its hanging gardens, into the second floor and the lounge of the Exhibition Hall. The reception area, including entrance, foyer and cloakroom, as well as a café and shop, are open to the public.
Opening times: 10 am - 8 pm daily
Entrance fees: Regular: DM 14,- (7,15 Euro)
Groups of 10 or more persons, pensioners: DM 12,- (6,15 Euro)
Schoolchildren, students, unemployed: DM 8,- (4 Euro)
Remark: On every Monday, not falling on a Bank Holiday, all entrance fees will be reduced by half. Address: Theatinerstraße 8 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 22 44 12 fax=+49 (0)89 - 29 16 09 81 URL: http://www.hypo-kunsthalle.de
Museum of Mankind and Nature One of Munich's newest museums is a must for inquisitive minds. Interactive exhibitions intrigue and delight you while you learn about the wonders of natural science. Covering such diversified topics as the workings of the mind to the earth's creation, permanent and special exhibits are friendly, fun and challenging for all ages.
Address: Schloss Nymphenburg (nord wing) Tel: +49 (0)89 - 17 64 94 fax=
Altes Residenztheater (Old Residence Theater) Enchanting rococo theater named after its architect, Francois Cuvilliés.
Address: Residenzstrasse 1 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 90 67-1 fax=
State Collection of Egyptian Art Ancient Egyptian works of art from prehistoric times through the classical periods up to the greco-roman era.
Address: Residenz, entrance Hofgartenstrasse Tel: +49 (0)89 - 29 85 46 fax=
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum) European art, crafts and folklore from the Middle Ages to the 20th century
Address: Prinzregentenstraße 3 Tel: +49 (0)89 - 2 16 81 fax=
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