Exhibitions in Munich

Alpine Museum · Free

A foyer exhibition marking Friederike Kaiser's 25 years leading the Alpine Museum, tracing how she shaped it through exhibitions, events and research on mountain culture.

Pinakothek der Moderne

Architekturmuseum show on global food production, from high-tech greenhouses to industrial farming, and the environmental strain it puts on the planet.

Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum

Dutch photographer Martin Roemers' global portrait series pairs people with their vehicles, exploring how mobility shapes identity and lifestyle across cultures.

Museum Five Continents

Over 100 objects trace Krishna from religious tradition and classical sculpture and painting to modern pop culture, including five large-format Pichwai wall hangings.

Jewish Museum Munich

Seven contemporary Jewish artists with roots in Arab-influenced regions explore identity, memory and belonging, tracing shared culture alongside histories of exclusion and violence.

Museum Five Continents · Past

80 Māori carvings from the museum's Oceania collection, mostly acquired in London between 1825 and 1914, explored with Māori co-curator David Jones.

Kunstfoyer · Free · Past

A retrospective of Lisette Model (1901–1983), whose uncompromising street photography from high society to the city's margins shaped documentary photography.

Alte Pinakothek · Past

A collection exhibition on narrative technique in Early German, Netherlandish and Flemish painting of the 16th–17th centuries.

Museum Brandhorst

Works from the collection are paired to create dialogues and tensions between artists.

Deutsches Museum

Interactive special exhibition on how human and planetary health are intertwined, exploring air, water, biosphere and landscape through everyday objects and possible solutions.

Kunsthalle München

A journey through three millennia of hair in art and culture, with some 200 works from antiquity to today — paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry and haute couture exploring hair as identity, status and rebellion.

Alte Pinakothek

19th-century bronze animal sculpture, from pioneering Animaliers Barye and Mêne to later masters August Gaul and Fritz Behn.

Alpine Museum

Explores how rising temperatures are reshaping the Alps — biodiversity, natural hazards and tourism — through the perspectives of scientists and mountain-sport practitioners.

Alte Pinakothek

Masterpieces from the closed Neue Pinakothek on display at the Alte Pinakothek, spanning Romanticism to early Modernism: Friedrich, Manet, Monet, Cézanne and van Gogh.

Haus der Kunst

A walk-in chronicle on the southeast staircase documenting over 300 exhibitions Haus der Kunst has staged since the 1990s, charting its evolution as a contemporary art center.

Museum Man and Nature

An interactive exhibition on the circular economy, showing how waste becomes a resource through repair, reuse and redesign, including a virtual sneaker-design station.

Museum Brandhorst

A survey drawing on six decades of the Brandhorst Collection, from the 1960s to today.

Lenbachhaus

Inspired by Etel Adnan's last book, 83 works by over 40 international artists probe how visual art can reach beyond the limits of language.

Lenbachhaus

Over 240 works trace the Blue Rider's pioneering visual languages and transnational networks, highlighting the movement's women artists alongside Kandinsky and Franz Marc.

Pinakothek der Moderne

Design Museum survey of robots from the 1970s to today, from toy figures to functional machines in the home, industry, emergency services and research.

Lenbachhaus

19th- and 20th-century landscape works from the Lenbachhaus collection and partner institutions examine how art captures nature amid climate change and environmental transformation.