Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Munich, Germany

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Number of sights 28 sights
Distance 8.9 km
Ascend 139 m
Descend 150 m

Experience Munich in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in MunichIndividual Sights in Munich

Sight 1: Paläontologisches Museum

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The Palaeontological Museum in Germany, is a German national natural history museum located in the city of Munich, Bavaria. It is associated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. It has a large collection of fossils of animals and plants such as Mesozoic reptiles, early elephants and saber-toothed cats. The paleontological and geological institute which houses the museum is formally called the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, which itself is one of several institutions which make up the Bavarian Natural History Collections.

Wikipedia: Palaeontological Museum, Munich (EN)

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Lenbachhaus

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The Lenbachhaus is a building housing the Städtische Galerie art museum in Munich's Kunstareal.

Wikipedia: Lenbachhaus (EN), Website

387 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Museum für Abgüsse klassischer Bildwerke

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The Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke is located in the central Maxvorstadt district in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated, with a number of other cultural institutions, within the Münchner Haus der Kulturinstitute in Katharina-von-Bora-Straße, near the Königsplatz.

Wikipedia: Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke (EN), Website, Wheelchair Website

35 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung

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The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich (München), Germany, is a large collection of drawings, prints and engravings. It contains 400,000 sheets starting from the 15th century from various artists around the world. Along with Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, it is the most important collection of its kind in Germany. It is owned by the government of Bavaria and located within the Kunstareal, a museum quarter in the city centre of Munich.

Wikipedia: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (EN), Website

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Neptunbrunnen

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Neptunbrunnen is a fountain located in the Alter Botanischer Garten of Munich, Germany. It was sculpted in 1937 at the behest of the National Socialist government by Josef Wackerle. A muscular statue of neptune stands in the middle of the fountain, holding a trident on his shoulder, above a fish-tailed horse rising from the water.

Wikipedia: Neptunbrunnen (Munich) (EN)

705 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: Palais Seinsheim

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The Palais Seinsheim is a city palace in the style of the late Rococo in Munich's 7.

Wikipedia: Palais Seinsheim (DE)

265 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Friedrich von Schiller

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The Schiller Monument in Munich is located on Maximiliansplatz and honors the German poet Friedrich Schiller. It is a bronze figure on a granite base with limestone steps.

Wikipedia: Schillerdenkmal (München) (DE)

418 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Börse München

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The Börse München is a stock exchange based in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1830, it currently lists over 6300 securities.

Wikipedia: Börse München (EN), Website

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie

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The State Collection of Anthropology and Paleoanatomy in Munich is a research institution of the Bavarian State Natural History Collections, which is dedicated to the prehistory and early history of humans in Bavaria, including the animal world and the environment, by means of permanent physical relics, especially skeletons.

Wikipedia: Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie (DE), Website

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations

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The Amerikahaus is a cultural institution on Karolinenplatz in Munich's Kunstareal, which opened in 1948 as the Amerika-Haus.

Wikipedia: Amerika-Haus (München) (DE), Website

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Karolinenplatz

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The obelisk on Karolinenplatz is a memorial in Munich. It was built in 1833 by King Ludwig I by the architect Leo von Klenze for the 30,000 Bavarian soldiers who had fallen in the Napoleonic Russian campaign of 1812.

Wikipedia: Obelisk am Karolinenplatz (DE)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Prinz-Georg-Palais

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The Prinz-Georg-Palais at Karolinenplatz 5 is a detached building that is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

Wikipedia: Prinz-Georg-Palais (München) (DE)

391 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst

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The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst is an archaeological museum in Munich. It contains the Bavarian state collection of ancient Egyptian art and displays exhibits from both the predynastic and dynastic periods. The associated small Middle East section displays objects from the areas of Assyrian and Babylonian culture. For decades, the Egyptian museum was located in the Munich Residenz, but it was moved to the Kunstareal in June 2013.

Wikipedia: Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst (EN), Website

119 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Present Continuous

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Present Continuous is a monumental sculpture by the Dutch sculptor Henk Visch, which was erected in May 2011 between the entrance of the new building of the University of Television and Film and the entrance of the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich on a green strip along Gabelsbergerstraße.

Wikipedia: Present Continuous (Skulptur) (DE)

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Alte Pinakothek

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Alte Pinakothek Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Alte Pinakothek is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pinakothek refers to the time period covered by the collection—from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. The Neue Pinakothek, re-built in 1981, covers nineteenth-century art, and Pinakothek der Moderne, opened in 2002, exhibits modern art. All three galleries are part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, an organization of the Free state of Bavaria.

Wikipedia: Alte Pinakothek (EN), Website

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: The design museum

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The design museumAndy Armstrong from London, United Kingdom / CC BY-SA 2.0

Die Neue Sammlung is one of the leading design museums in the world, with the largest collection of industrial and product design.

Wikipedia: Die Neue Sammlung (EN), Website

44 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Pinakothek der Moderne

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The Pinakothek der Moderne is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's Kunstareal.

Wikipedia: Pinakothek der Moderne (EN), Website

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Buscando la Luz

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Buscando la Luz II is a monumental sculpture by Eduardo Chillida. It is the second in a series of four works of art of the same name: Buscando la Luz I (1997) and Buscando la Luz III (2000) are located in the sculpture park of the Chillida Leku Museum in Spain, Buscando la Luz IV (2001) on the grounds of the University of Qatar in Doha.

Wikipedia: Buscando la Luz (DE)

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Museum Mineralogia München

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The Museum Reich der Kristalle is the publicly accessible part of the Mineralogischen Staatssammlung of Munich, Germany. It features explanations of mineralogical and crystallographic terms using models. It also showcases minerals local to Bavaria. The museum has a few small displays as well as a showroom which hosts special exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Museum Reich der Kristalle (EN), Website

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Museum Brandhorst

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The Brandhorst Museum was opened in Munich on 21 May 2009. It displays about 200 exhibits from the modern art collection of the heirs of the Henkel trust Udo and Anette Brandhorst. In 2009 the Brandhorst Collection comprises more than 700 works.

Wikipedia: Museum Brandhorst (EN), Website

567 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 21: Haslauer-Block

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The Haslauer Block is a listed classicist business, office and residential building on Ludwigstraße with house numbers 6–10 in Munich. The block is located between Von-der-Tann-Straße, which passes to the south, and Schönfeldstraße.

Wikipedia: Haslauer-Block (DE)

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 22: Palais Seyssel d’Aix

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The Palais Seyssel d'Aix is a small castle at Kaulbachstraße 13 in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich. It is listed as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments and has been the headquarters of the Institut français in Munich since 1954.

Wikipedia: Palais Seyssel d’Aix (DE)

64 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: Historisches Kolleg

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The Kaulbach Villa in Munich was built as a representative residence of the painter Friedrich August von Kaulbach in the Neo-Renaissance style. The building designed by Gabriel von Seidl at Kaulbachstraße 15 in the Maxvorstadt district is listed as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments and is now the seat of the Historisches Kolleg.

Wikipedia: Kaulbach-Villa (München) (DE)

423 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 24: St. Ludwig

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The Catholic Parish and University Church St. Louis, called Ludwigskirche, in Munich is a monumental church in Neo-Romanesque style with the second-largest altar fresco of the world. The building, with its round arches called the Rundbogenstil, strongly influenced other church architecture, train stations and synagogues in both Germany and the United States.

Wikipedia: Ludwigskirche, Munich (EN)

342 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: DenkStätte Weiße Rose

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The White Rose Memorial at the atrium of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich is a central place of remembrance for the history of the student resistance of the White Rose. It was opened in 1997 in cooperation with the White Rose Foundation e.V. and the university. Since then, people there have been informing themselves about the White Rose resistance group; currently over 40,000 a year, of which almost 40 percent come from abroad.

Wikipedia: DenkStätte Weiße Rose (DE), Website

255 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 26: Römischer Brunnen

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The two bowl fountains on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz and Professor-Huber-Platz in Maxvorstadt in the Bavarian capital of Munich were built by King Ludwig I from 1840 to 1844 by the architect Friedrich von Gärtner in the classicist style, based on the model of the fountains on St. Peter's Square in Rome. The iron and granite facilities are listed as historical monuments.

Wikipedia: Schalenbrunnen (München) (DE)

873 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 27: Monopteros

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The Englischer Garten is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford, for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. Thompson's successors, Reinhard von Werneck (1757–1842) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823), advisers on the project from its beginning, both extended and improved the park.

Wikipedia: Englischer Garten (EN)

1500 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 28: Maximiliansanlagen

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The Maximiliansanlagen are parks and gardens in the Munich districts of Bogenhausen and Haidhausen between the Ludwigsbrücke and the Max-Joseph-Brücke. The central point is the 38-metre-high Angel of Peace. The eastern boundary of the complexes is largely formed by Maria-Theresia-Straße.

Wikipedia: Maximiliansanlagen (DE)

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