Munich Travel Blog

Some people are palace people, some are castle people, some are party people, but there is also that rare breed known as the museum type.  When in Munich, as with most major cities, you should probably visit a few museums.  If you are, in fact, one of the rare breed of museum goers that can do it all...

Munich has two palaces within the city that are able to be toured.  Both are impressive in their own right and worth visiting, but of course not everyone has time to see everything so I would like to try and explain here what there is to see and how they compare. The main royal palace of the country...

Alte Pinakothek – Munich’s top art museum, this has Bavaria’s state collection of paintings dating from the 13th to the 18th century.  As far as master works per square foot, it’s pretty hard to beat.  Some of the artists to be found here are El Greco, Valazquez, Dürer, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto,...