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A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Germany

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A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Bavaria

Bavaria - Museums and Art Galleries in Bavaria, including non-profit art centers and galleries, government entities, and private businesses.

NAME	LOCATION	TELEPHONE & WEBSITE	SUMMARY
Kunstmuseum Bayreuth	Maximilianstraße 33, 95444 Bayreuth	Telephone: +49 921764530 kunstmuseum-bayreuth.de	The Kunstmuseum Bayreuth is a museum for modern art, opened in 1999 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. The historic rooms of the baroque former town hall present exhibitions with contemporary art and classical modern art. The offer includes guided tours, educational events and lectures.
Alte Pinakothek	Barer Straße 27 Eingang Theresienstraße 80333 München	Telephone: +49 089 23805216 pinakothek.de	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 one of the most famous collections 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 covers nineteenth-century art, and the recently opened Pinakothek der Moderne exhibits modern art. All three galleries are part of the Bavarian State Picture Collection, an organization of the Free state of Bavaria.
Bavarian National Museum	Prinzregentenstraße 3, 80538 München	Telephone: +49 892112401 bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de	The Bavarian National Museum (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum) in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and one of the largest art museums in Germany. Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two main groups: the art historical collection and the folklore collection.
Bavarian State Painting Collections	cBarer Str. 29, 80799 München	Telephone: +49 89238050 www.pinakothek.de	The Bavarian State Painting Collections, based in Munich, oversees the collections of artworks held by the Free State of Bavaria. Works include paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, video art and installation art. These pieces are on display in numerous galleries and museums throughout Bavaria.
Glyptothek	Königsplatz 3, 80333 München	Telephone: +49 89286100 antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de	The Glyptothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures. The Glyptothek contains sculptures dating from the archaic age (c. 650 BC) to the Roman era (c. 550 AD). Other notable sculptures, mosaics and reliefs can also be found here. This collection is complemented by the terracotta and bronze collections in the Staatliche Antikensammlung (State Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities), which is located opposite the Glyptothek.
Goetz Collection	Oberföhringer Str. 103, 81925 München	Telephone: +49 8995939690 sammlung-goetz.de	The Goetz Collection (Sammlung Goetz) is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. It was finished 1992. The collection is owned and continually being built by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collection to the public in a series of themed exhibitions in a purpose built museum designed by the Swiss architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron. The Collection organizes two to three exhibitions along with video and film programmes on the lower level of the building.
Haus der Kunst	Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 München	Telephone: +49 8921127113 hausderkunst.de	Haus der Kunst is a non-collecting public museum and a key global center for contemporary art. It is dedicated to the exploration of the diverse histories of contemporary art based on a foundation of focused exhibitions, research, and education.
Lenbachhaus	Luisenstraße 33, 80333 München	Telephone: +49 8923332000 http://www.lenbachhaus.de/	The gallery displays masterpieces by Munich artists such as Jan Polack, Christoph Schwarz, Georges Desmarees ("Countess Holstein" 1754), Wilhelm von Kobell, Georg von Dillis, Carl Rottmann ("Cosmic stormlandscape" 1849), Carl Spitzweg ("Childhood Friends", ca. 1860), Eduard Schleich, Carl Theodor von Piloty, Franz von Stuck ("Salome" 1906), Franz von Lenbach ("Self Portrait with His Wife and Daughters" 1903), Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Wilhelm Leibl ("Veterinarian Reindl in the Arbor" ca. 1890), Wilhelm Trübner and Hans Thoma.
Munich Residenz	Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München	Telephone: +49 89290671 residenz-muenchen.de	The Residenz in central Munich is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. The Residenz is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to visitors for its architecture, room decorations, and displays from the former royal collections.
Munich Stadtmuseum	Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 München	Telephone: +49 8923322370 muenchner-stadtmuseum.de	The Munich Stadtmuseum (German: "Münchner Stadtmuseum") is the city museum of Munich. It was founded in 1888 by Ernst von Destouches and is located in the former municipal arsenal and stables, both buildings of the late Gothic period.
Museum Brandhorst	Theresienstraße 35a, 80333 München	Telephone: +49 89238052286 museum-brandhorst.de	The Brandhorst Museum was opened in Munich on May 21, 2009. It displays about 200 exhibits from collection of modern art of the heirs of the Henkel trust Udo Fritz-Hermann and Anette Brandhorst. In 2009 the Brandhorst Collection comprises more than 700 works.
Neue Pinakothek	Barer Str. 29, 80799 München	Telephone: +49 89 23805195 pinakothek.de	Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th century and is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world. Together with the Alte Pinakothek and the Pinakothek der Moderne it is part of Munich's "Kunstareal" (the "art area").
Pinakothek der Moderne	Barer Str. 40, 80333 München	Telephone: +49 8923805360 www.pinakothek.de	The Pinakothek der Moderne, is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's Kunstareal. Locals sometimes refer to it as the Dritte ("third") Pinakothek after the Old and New. It is one of the world's largest museums for modern and contemporary art.
Schackgalerie	Prinzregentenstraße 9, 80538 München	Telephone: +49 8923805224 https://www.pinakothek.de/	The Schackgalerie is a museum in Munich. It is one of the noted galleries in this city. The museum under supervision of the Bavarian State Picture Collection.In 1855, Adolf Friedrich von Schack settled at Munich, where he was made member of the academy of sciences. Here he began to collect a splendid gallery of pictures, containing masterpieces of Romanticism with painters such as Anselm Feuerbach, Moritz von Schwind, Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Lenbach, Carl Spitzweg, Carl Rottmann, etc., and which, though bequeathed by him to the Emperor William II, still remains at Munich.
Staatliche Antikensammlungen	Königsplatz 1, 80333 München	Telephone: +49 8959988830 antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de	Experience Greeks, Etruscans and Romans first hand in the Collections of Antiquities on Königsplatz. Works of art and everyday objects from ancient times made of quite diverse materials such as ceramic, metal and stone allow visitors to immerse themselves in the ancient world.
Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst	Gabelsbergerstraße 35, 80333 München	Telephone: +49 8928927630 http://www.smaek.de/	The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst is an archaeological museum in Munich. It contains the Bavarian state collection of Ancient Egypt 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.
Museum Five Continents	Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 München	Telephone: +49 89210136100 http://www.museum-fuenf-kontinente.de/	The collection of artefacts of everyday life, ritual objects and works of art which are preserved and continually expanded here reflect humanity’s cultural diversity. They build bridges from the past to the present day and open doors to other ways of life and viewpoints. The Museum offers access to the cultural riches of the earth’s peoples in a way which is unique with Munich’s broad range of museums.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum	Kartäusergasse 1, 90402 Nürnberg	Telephone: +49 91113310 http://www.gnm.de/	The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is the largest museum of cultural history in the German-speaking region. Dedicated to research as well as visitors, this internationally highly regarded museum displays cultural history in an interdisciplinary, generally understandable and lively way.
Kunsthalle Nürnberg	Lorenzer Str. 32, 90402 Nürnberg	Telephone: +49 9112312853 kunstkulturquartier.de	The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It organizes exhibitions by contemporary international artists in its galleries in Nuremberg. The Kunsthalle commissions new work by a majority of the artists it works with.
Neues Museum Nürnberg	Luitpoldstraße 5, 90402 Nürnberg	Telephone: +49 9112402069 www.nmn.de	On over 3,000 square meters of collection and exhibition space, the Free State of Bavaria state museum shows art and design from the 1950s to the present day.
Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg	Oskar-Laredo-Platz 1, 97080 Würzburg	Telephone: +49 931322250 kulturspeicher.de	The Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg is a municipal art museum located at Veitshöchheimer Strasse 5, Würzburg, Northern Bavaria, Germany. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged. The municipal collection exhibits regional art, primarily from Franconia and Southern Germany, ranging from Biedermeier-style portraits and landscapes of the first half of the 19th century, through German impressionism and painters of the Berlin Secession, including Robert Breyer, Philipp Franck, Walter Leistikow, Joseph Oppenheimer, and Max Slevogt, as well as members of the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School including Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm and Franz Bunke.
Würzburg Residence	Residenzplatz 97070 Würzburg	Telephone: +49 0931355170 www.residenz-wuerzburg.de	The former residence of the Würzburg prince-bishops is one of the most important baroque palaces in Europe and today it is on UNESCO's World Heritage list. The Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, assisted by his son, Domenico, painted frescoes in the building. Interiors considered masterworks of Baroque/Rococo or Neoclassical architecture and art include the grand staircase, the chapel, and the Imperial Hall.