Where Munich keeps its masterpieces.
Five great collections, a few minutes apart, and more masterpieces than most capitals can offer. I show you the ones worth your afternoon — and tell you why they matter.
Museums and collections
Pinakothek der Moderne: the art collection.
Four museums under one roof, joined by one of the most spectacular rotundas in Germany. The collection tells the twentieth century in originals: Kirchner's street scenes, Beckmann's triptychs, Picasso's transformations — then Warhol, Baselitz and the present day.
from 130 € · 90 minutes · in English
Die Neue Sammlung: the world's oldest design museum.
Founded in 1907, it holds everything from Bauhaus furniture to Apple computers and a basement full of legendary cars and motorcycles. A tour about why the things around us look the way they do.
from 130 € · 90 minutes · in English
Museum Brandhorst: the present in colour.
Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly in a building that is itself a work of art: 36,000 ceramic rods in 23 colours. Inside, one of Europe's finest collections of art since 1960.
from 130 € · 90 minutes · in English
Lenbachhaus: the Blue Rider at home.
The largest collection of Blue Rider paintings anywhere in the world — Kandinsky, Marc, Münter, Jawlensky. The moment when European painting stopped depicting the world and started inventing it, told where it happened.
from 130 € · 90 minutes · in English
Kunsthalle München: always something new.
No permanent collection, but two major exhibitions a year — often the only showing in Germany, and always worth planning a visit around. If you are in Munich for a few days, this is usually the most surprising thing on offer.
from 130 € · 90 minutes · in English
Tours with a theme
Walks with a clear focus, developed by me and bookable privately.
Through other eyes. Gender, desire and identity in art.
Warhol, Twombly and others, read through the lives their work grew out of. A tour about desire, codes and what could and could not be said.
Themed tour · from 150 € · 90 minutes · in English
Flawless: ideals of beauty.
What a society considers beautiful, and who decides. From the classical body to the retouched surfaces of contemporary art.
Themed tour · from 150 € · 90 minutes · in English
The painting of Van Gogh.
While the Neue Pinakothek is closed for renovation, its nineteenth-century masterpieces hang in the Alte Pinakothek. A close look at Van Gogh's painting, placed within his whole body of work, alongside Gauguin and Monet.
Themed tour · from 150 € · 90 minutes · in English
Kandinsky the poet.
Kandinsky wrote as well as painted. A tour that reads his poems against his pictures — and ends with a short writing exercise of your own.
Themed tour · from 150 € · 120 minutes · in English
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