Discover museums in Munich with free and reduced admission

• Exhibition: Sell La Vie

  

  05.10.2024 - 20.07.2025

  AMUSEUM of Contemporary Art

  Location: München

• Exhibition: Colours of Japan

  

  27.03.2025 - 06.07.2025

  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library)

  Location: München

• Exhibition:

  

  20.03.2025 - 04.07.2025

  Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History)

  Location: München

Free admission for everybody

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Erinnerungsort Neuaubing (Neuaubing Place of Remembrance)

  

  The forced labour camp in Neuaubing was one of over 400 collective accommodations for forced labourers in Munich during the Nazi era. It was set up by the Reichsbahn in 1942 and was used until 1945 to...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Kunstfoyer (Art Foyer)

  

  The Kunstfoyer, with its focus on graphics and drawing, film and photography, serves as a platform for intercultural dialogue. Each exhibition sets its own impulses and offers visitors unique...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: MaximiliansForum

  

  The MaximiliansForum is the city's art space for applied arts such as jewellery, design, fashion and architecture as well as for interdisciplinary art and cultural projects. The latest concepts are...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Lothringer 13 (Hall for International Contemporary Art)

  

  Lothringer13 has established itself internationally as a platform for experimental contemporary art. As an art space of the city of Munich, the focus is on presenting young, innovative artistic...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke (Museum of Castings of Classical Works of Art)

  

  Whether Nike of Samothrace, Discus Thrower, Heracles Farnese, Laocoongroup or Apollo from the Belvedere - world-famous statues of ancient gods, heroes and humans are on display here, the originals of...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Münchner Kaiserburg im Alten Hof (Munich Imperial Castle in the Old Courtyard)

  

  Every child in Munich knows the legend of the monkey tower in the Altes Hof. What is much less well known is that the medieval history of this place - after all, the first residence of the Wittelsbach...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre - currently closed: Sammlung Goetz (Goetz collection)

  

  With more than 5,000 works by over 500 artists, the Sammlung Goetz (Goetz collection) is one of the most important international collections of contemporary art. The foundation of the collection is...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Sammlung Café Luitpold (Collection Café Luitpold)

  

  The Café Luitpold Collection is Munich's smallest museum with great experience value and tells the story of coffee house culture from 1888 to the present day. The museum tells the story of the rise of...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Paläontologisches Museum München (Palaeontological Museum Munich)

  

  Look into the eyes (cave) of a 10-million-year-old primeval elephant, admire the rare archaeopteryx bird or marvel at the largest and smallest dinosaurs in Bavaria: the Palaeontological Museum takes...

  Location: München

Free admission for people under the age of 18

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinacoteca)

  

  The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinacoteca) has world-class works: Old German painting from the end of the 14th century to the Dürer period (Albrecht Dürer, Mathias Grünewald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum)

  

  The Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum) is one of the major European museums dedicated to both the fine arts and cultural history. The core area of the diverse holdings, which range...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg (Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg)

  

  Humid tropical areas, cool tropical mountain forests or hot deserts - what will it be? In the over 4500 m² of greenhouses, visitors embark on a botanical journey around the world. Around 16,000 plant...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Glyptothek

  

  The Königsplatz presents itself like an ancient market square, enclosed by the two Greek "temple complexes" Glyptothek and Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities) and the gateway...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Jüdisches Museum München (Jewish Museum Munich)

  

  The entire diversity of Jewish history, art and culture - including the current situation of Jewish life - is the focus of the Jüdisches Museum München (Jewish Museum Munich). In its changing...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Kunsthalle München (Munich Art Gallery)

  

  The Kunsthalle München (Munich Art Gallery) is not only one of the most renowned exhibition venues in Germany, but also one of the most visited. Three major exhibitions are held each year on a wide...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Lenbachhaus

  

  The Lenbachhaus Municipal Gallery, housed within the villa of the renowned "Prince of Painting" Franz von Lenbach, stands as a beacon of artistic excellence, boasting an internationally acclaimed...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre - currently closed: Münchner Stadtmuseum (Munich City Museum)

  

  The Münchner Stadtmuseum is expected to be closed until 2031 for general refurbishment. The Filmmuseum and Stadtcafé will remain open until June 2027.The Münchner Stadtmuseum is the largest...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum Brandhorst

  

  The Museum Brandhorst is dedicated to contemporary art. Since its opening in 2009, the museum has established itself as one of the central locations for contemporary art in Germany. Behind the...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum Fünf Kontinente (Museum Five Continents)

  

  The Museum Fünf Continents (Museum Five Continents) tells of the cultural wealth of mankind, to be found in things of everyday life as well as in ritual objects or works of art. Founded in 1862 as the...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum Mensch und Natur (Museum Man and Nature)

  

  Press buttons, solve riddles, marvel at interactive exhibits and dioramas and playfully recognise connections - in short: natural history as an experience. Under this motto, the Museum Mensch und...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre - currently closed: Museum Villa Stuck (Museum Villa Stuck)

  

  The Munich "painter prince" Franz von Stuck (1863-1928) built a villa according to his own ideas around the turn of the century and thus created one of the most important artists' houses in Europe...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Pinakothek der Moderne (Pinacotheca of the Modern)

  

  Four important museums work together under one roof in the Pinakothek der Moderne (Modern Art Collection): the Sammlung Moderne Kunst der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Modern Art Collection of...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Residenzmuseum in der Residenz München (Residenzmuseum in the Munich Residence)

  

  With its approximately 130 rooms, the Munich Residenz is one of the most important spatial art museums in the world. It developed from a small moated castle built in 1385 and was the residence and...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Sammlung Schack (Schack collection)

  

  With its extensive complex of works by Moritz von Schwind, Anselm Feuerbach and Arnold Böcklin, the Sammlung Schack (Schack collection) is one of the most important collections of 19th century German...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatliche Antikensammlungen (State collections of antiquities)

  

  Greeks, Etruscans and Romans can be experienced vividly in the antique collections on Königsplatz. They have found their home on the south side of the square, in the exhibition building designed by...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatliche Münzsammlung München (State Coin Collection Munich)

  

  An overview of the history of money of all epochs and countries is not possible with coins alone, and so the State Numismatic Collection also presents medals, early paper money, precious gems and...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst - SMÄK (State Museum of Egyptian Art)

  

  The portal of the completely underground Egyptian Museum looks like the entrance to an ancient Egyptian royal tomb - and surprises visitors after they pass through with rooms illuminated by daylight....

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Sudetendeutsches Museum (Sudeten German Museum)

  

  The Sudeten German Museum (Sudeten German Museum) is the first central national museum of the Sudeten Germans. Under the guiding concept of "Homeland", it tells the story of the Germans in Bohemia,...

  Location: München

1 Euro on sundays

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinacoteca)

  

  The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinacoteca) has world-class works: Old German painting from the end of the 14th century to the Dürer period (Albrecht Dürer, Mathias Grünewald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum)

  

  The Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum) is one of the major European museums dedicated to both the fine arts and cultural history. The core area of the diverse holdings, which range...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Glyptothek

  

  The Königsplatz presents itself like an ancient market square, enclosed by the two Greek "temple complexes" Glyptothek and Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities) and the gateway...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum Brandhorst

  

  The Museum Brandhorst is dedicated to contemporary art. Since its opening in 2009, the museum has established itself as one of the central locations for contemporary art in Germany. Behind the...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Museum Fünf Kontinente (Museum Five Continents)

  

  The Museum Fünf Continents (Museum Five Continents) tells of the cultural wealth of mankind, to be found in things of everyday life as well as in ritual objects or works of art. Founded in 1862 as the...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Pinakothek der Moderne (Pinacotheca of the Modern)

  

  Four important museums work together under one roof in the Pinakothek der Moderne (Modern Art Collection): the Sammlung Moderne Kunst der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Modern Art Collection of...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Sammlung Schack (Schack collection)

  

  With its extensive complex of works by Moritz von Schwind, Anselm Feuerbach and Arnold Böcklin, the Sammlung Schack (Schack collection) is one of the most important collections of 19th century German...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatliche Antikensammlungen (State collections of antiquities)

  

  Greeks, Etruscans and Romans can be experienced vividly in the antique collections on Königsplatz. They have found their home on the south side of the square, in the exhibition building designed by...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatliche Münzsammlung München (State Coin Collection Munich)

  

  An overview of the history of money of all epochs and countries is not possible with coins alone, and so the State Numismatic Collection also presents medals, early paper money, precious gems and...

  Location: München

• Museum / Exhibition Centre: Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst - SMÄK (State Museum of Egyptian Art)

  

  The portal of the completely underground Egyptian Museum looks like the entrance to an ancient Egyptian royal tomb - and surprises visitors after they pass through with rooms illuminated by daylight....

  Location: München