Event tip End of June in Munich: Kunstareal Festival

Munich: June 27-29 Kunstareal Festival 2025

Event tip MUNICH: Free exploration of 5,000 years of cultural history through museums and institutions in Munich's Kunstareal – between Königsplatz and the Pinakotheken

June 27-29, 2025, with free admission to all museums, academic, and cultural institutions (DEUTSCH)

Munich. At the end of June, the Kunstareal Festival will be celebrated in Munich under the motto "Freedom" with a free exploration of 5,000 years of cultural history through museums and institutions. From June 27 to 29, culture will be celebrated in Munich's Kunstareal, in the Maxvorstadt district between Königsplatz and the Pinakotheken. Many museums, galleries, the Central Institute for Art History, universities, and cultural institutions have prepared programs. The climax of the festival will be celebrated on the weekend of June 28 and 29, 2025. Admission to all museums and institutions, as well as participation in all program items, is free of charge. The entire program can be found on the Kunstareal website at https://kunstareal.de/." The event program: kunstareal.de/kunstareal-fest/2025/veranstaltungen

Kunstareal-Fest - Munich - Logo - Provided by: Organizer Munich:  kunstareal.de/kunstareal-fest/2025

 

Kunstareal Festival in Munich:

Friday, June 27:

Young People's Night in and around the Museum Brandhorst;

All group activities offered by the Museum Education Center can be booked free of charge.

Saturday, June 28

World premiere of "Cardboard Sessions" (choreography: Moritz Ostruschnjak) – the DANCE Festival visits the Pinakothek der Moderne.

Saturday, June 28 / Sunday, June 29

University stage with short concerts from the University of Music and Theater.

June 27-29, 2025

On all three days: FLUX opening and kick-off weekend "Hello, my name is Kunstbau."

On all three evenings: "Titanism – The Writing on the Wall" – a multimedia installation by Mariko Takahashi and Stefan Winter on the facade of the State Museum of Egyptian Art.

Kunstareal Festival 2025

Motto: Freedom
When?

• Fri. 27 to Sun. 29 June 2025
• Free admission

Program:

• Guided tours,
• Workshops,
• Talks, concerts,
• Participatory activities
• Food and beverages on site
• ...

#kunstarealfest2025,#freedom

Munich: International Museum Day - MAY 19, 2024

47th International Museum Day on May 19, 2024

 

Between the Stone Age and street art, you can experience a lot on International Museum Day in Munich - here are just a few highlights!

And in the art area around the Alte Pinakothek in Munich you can stroll from museum to museum - and take a look here and there until 6 p.m  - (GERMAN, FRENCH)

Munich. On International Museum Day 2024, museums across Germany will mostly be open with free admission. Many Munich museums offer special tours, extras for children and lectures or even hold parties. Today you can take a “look behind the scenes” in museums. Munich museums are offering numerous guided tours on Whit Sunday, May 19th, with free admission or a cheap Sunday rate. Here is a small selection from the large number of Munich museums - more information on site at the tourist information center in the town hall on Marienplatz...

 

Art area with Alter Pinakothek, Pinakother der Moderne and more - photo collage: Helga Waess (archive)

The Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA)

The MUCA now has a permanent place in the Munich museum world. It is the first exhibition hall in Germany to give space to street art and urban art. With around 1,200 works in stock, it will make many exhibitions possible. The current special exhibition "Damien Hirst - The Weight of Things" shows Hirst's art world, which now spans 40 years, through installations, sculptures and paintings.

On today's museum Sunday: entry 9 euros

Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA), Hotterstraße 12, 80331 Munich

 

State Museum of Egyptian Art

Sunday in the Egyptian Museum in the art area offers, among other things, children's workshops: "The Secret of Hieroglyphs" (10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.) and the little ones can also get to know the "Ancient Egyptian World of the Gods" by making gods' masks (1 - 2:30 p.m.). .

Here visitors can find out more about the royal city of Naga in Sudan (lecture from 3 p.m.).

The Egyptian Museum also offers, among other things, digital tours and hieroglyphics courses.

State Museum of Egyptian Art, Gabelsbergerstraße 35, 80333 Munich

Bavarian National Museum – art and cultural history of Europe

But what would a museum Sunday be without European art from the early Middle Ages to Art Nouveau.

The Bavarian National Museum was founded in 1855 by King Maximilian II. Here you can find sculptures, paintings, goldsmiths' art and ivory carvings, as well as porcelain, costumes, historical furniture and weapons from all times. The collection shows the everyday culture of our ancestors. A unique highlight is the world-famous nativity collection, which includes precious figures from nativity makers in Naples, Sicily and nativity carvers from the Alpine region.

 Bavarian National Museum, Prinzregentenstr. 3, 80538 Munich

German Hunting and Fishing Museum

In the city center between Marienplatz and Isartor is the German Hunting and Fishing Museum, which illustrates the history of hunting and fishing (in freshwater) up to modern times. Starting from the Stone Age, we find taxidermy, all kinds of weapons and tools.

German Hunting and Fishing Museum, in the rooms of the former Augustinian Church in the pedestrian zone - Neuhauser Straße 2, 80333 Munich

 

Kunsthalle München (left), Theatinerstraße towards Odeonsplatz - Photo: Helga Waess

 

 

Kunsthalle Munich in the Fünf Höfe

The fashion designers Viktor & Rolf have written design history with their designs. Her fashion statements were staged by Madonna, Tilda Swinton and Lady Gaga. Distinctive icons of designer clothing, design sketches and examples of photo art by Andreas Gursky and Herb Ritts are currently on display (until October 6, 2024).
 

Kunsthalle Munich, Theatinerstraße 8, 80333 Munich

In the museum area around the Alte Pinakothek you can stroll from museum to museum

 

The Alte Pinakothek – European painting from the 14th to the 18th century

shows precious, unique works of art by Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, Leonardo Da Vinci and many other treasures.

Alte Pinakothek, Barer Str. 27, 80333 Munich

 

Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus and art building

In the Lenbachhaus you can take a look behind the scenes today and are guided through the museum free of charge until 1 p.m. (approx. 30 minutes - free of charge)

Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, Luisenstraße 33, 80333 Munich

 

... and so on