The Munich Art District

Duration: 4 hours
Transport: walking
Services: experienced local architect or art historian as guide, organisation and reservation of café break
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch
Group size: max. 25 persons
Price: 480 Euros + 19% VAT
Not included: consumption at café

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Welcome to the Munich Art District! With its 16 museums and exhibition halls, more than 40 galleries and cultural institutions as well as six universities, all located in the immediate vicinity, this district is unrivaled in Germany. We introduce the architectural highlights explain the urban context and the historical background of this unusually varied and important area.
The tour starts at the Lenbachhaus. It continues with the NS-Documentation Centre, the new building of the Egyptian Museum and HFF and the famous three Pinakotheken. The tour ends at the Museum Brandhorst, which sets new accents to the Art District with its striking colour façade.

Start of the tour at the Museum Lenbachhaus

Lenbachhaus
Renovation and extension by Sir Norman Foster and Partners, London, 2013. (visit the foyer)

The “Königsplatz” with its three Hellenic temples was designed by Leo von Klenze and Georg Friedrich Ziebland in 1862.

NS- Documentation Centre
designed by Georg Scheel Wetzel Architects (Berlin) and opened in 2015.

Egyptian Museum and the University of Television and Movie (HFF) by Peter Böhm Architects 2011, Cologne (visit the foyer)

Coffee break on the roof terrace, Vorhoelzer Forum.

Old Pinakothek
built in 1836 by Leo von Klenze, partly reconstructed after the World War II by Hans Döllgast in 1957 (visit the foyer)

Modern Pinakothek
The elegant Museum for modern art, including four different galleries, was designed in 2002 by Stephan Braunfels, Munich (visit the foyer)

Museum Brandhorst
A sensational museum by sauerbruch hutton architects 2008, Berlin. The façade has a unique apperance with its different layers and polychromatic glazed ceramic bars. (visit the foyer)

End of the tour at the “Museum Brandhorst”

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