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Mirror images
19.09.2025, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Themed tour through the Alte Pinakothek with Carolina Glardon

The life of others? Marginalized groups and the excluded in religious painting from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque period
05.09.2025, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Themed tour through the Alte Pinakothek with Veronika Schroeder

The development of painting from the late Middle Ages to the High Renaissance. A stylistic journey through the Alte Pinakothek
12.09.2025, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Guided tour of the Alte Pinakothek with Silke Immenga

It’s party time – festive companies celebrating
15.08.2025, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Gabriele Kunkel through the Alte Pinakothek

Overview Tour – Five Friends. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly
19.07.2025, 16:30 - 17:30 Uhr

Exhibition tour with Lee Muller through the Museum Brandhorst

Five Friends – Postwar. Between awakening and repression
05.07.2025, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Lee Muller through the Museum Brandhorst

Amore Amore Amore: Lovers in Old Master Paintings
20.06.2025, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Themed tour through the Alte Pinakothek with Gabriele Kunkel

Paul Signac “The Seine at Samois (study)” – 30 minutes, one work
20.06.2025, 14:00 - 14:30 Uhr

Explanation of the work with Angelika Burger in the Alte Pinakothek

BRSO – Atlas Eclipticalis
17.06.2025, 19:00 - 20:30 Uhr

Concert at Museum Brandhorst

Max Beckmann’s pictorial world – 30 minutes, one work
15.06.2025, 12:30 - 13:00 Uhr

Explanation of the work with Angelika Burger in the Pinakothek der Moderne

Masterpieces of bronze art
23.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Guided tour of the Bavarian Museum by Dr. Jens L. Burk

Luxury and representation in gold and silk
12.10.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Guided tour of the Bavarian National Museum by Dr. Andrea Mayerhofer-Llanes

Decoration as language – mythology and symbols on porcelain
09.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Guided tour of the Bavarian National Museum by Gabriele Lemos

Uniform furniture
25.09.2025, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Dr. Thomas Schindler through the Bavarian National Museum

Little princes and princesses. Children’s clothing from the Baroque period
11.09.2025, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Dr. Johannes Pietsch through the Bavarian National Museum

Thinking in drawers… or the art of keeping order.
28.08.2025, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Dr. Sigrid Epp through the Bavarian National Museum

Do you recognize it? Figure types in Riemenschneider, Leinberger and the Ulm School
24.08.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Dr. Sigrid Epp through the Bavarian National Museum

Hafner tableware and research into large numbers – a sociological method in museum practice
21.08.2025, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Dr. Thomas Schindler through the Bavarian National Museum

Thirst for knowledge and enlightenment – The Physics Cabinet of the University of Würzburg
05.06.2025 - 11.01.2026

Studio Exhibition at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Thirst for knowledge and enlightenment – guided tour of the studio exhibition
17.08.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Themed tour with Raphael Beuing through the studio exhibition of the Bavarian National Museum

Locus Ludi. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity
16.06.2025, 18:00 - 19:45 Uhr

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Véronique Dasen (Fribourg) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium

Place and myth. Investigations into material forms of expression of places as scenes of mythical events
26.05.2025, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr

Lecture by Dr. Will Kennedy (Athens) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium

Embodiment and Agency in Roman Spaces: Kinesthesia, Proprioception, and Mirror Neurons (English)
12.05.2025, 18:00 - 19:45 Uhr

Lecture by Prof. Dr. John Clarke (Austin, Texas) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium

News on the history of Meninx: first results of the 2023 and 2024 excavations
05.05.2025, 18:00 - 19:45 Uhr

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Ritter (Munich) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium

Japanische Tuschmalerei
19.10.2025, 10:00 - 14:00 Uhr

Seminar at the Museum Fünf Kontinente with Christine Mayr

Curator’s tour through the special exhibition He Toi Ora. Soulful art of the Māori
26.10.2025, 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

A tour of the special exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente with Dr. Hilke Thode-Arora

Resurrecting Nagasaki: Religion, Art, and Memory after the Atomic Bombing
14.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr

Lecture by Dr. Chad R. Diehl at the Museum Fünf Kontinente as part of the lecture program for the special exhibition Vom Inferno zum Friedenssymbol. 80 Jahre Hiroshima und Nagasaki in cooperation with the Japan-Zentrum der LMU München

Transylvanian Rugs: Landmarks and Controversial Issues
05.10.2025, 16:00 - 17:30 Uhr

Lecture and book presentation by Stefano Ionescu as part of Carpet Diem at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

Seeing (and seeing) anew? The view of women in selected works in the permanent exhibition Southwest Asia and North Africa
31.08.2025, 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

A tour with curator Dr. Anahita Mittertrainer through the permanent exhibition Southwest Asia and North Africa at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

In the eye of the leopard. An ecological look at colonial looted art from West Africa
25.09.2025, 19:00 - 20:30 Uhr

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stephanie Zehnle (Passau) as part of the Lucian Scherman Lecture at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

From inferno to peace symbol. Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years on
04.08.2025 - 11.01.2026

Special exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in cooperation with the LMU Japan Center

Curator’s tour through the temporary exhibition Merci Maman
13.07.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

A visit to the special exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente with Jonathan Fischer

Curator’s tour through the permanent exhibition “Myanmar”
22.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

A visit to the permanent exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente with Anne Hartig

Curator’s tour through the temporary exhibition Merci Maman
15.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

A visit to the special exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente with Stefan Eisenhofer

Resonance space ecology: transformation of the art field?
05.06.2025, 18:15 - 20:00 Uhr

Conversation with Juliane Rebentisch (Hamburg) and Maria Muhle (Munich) at the Central Institute for Art History

Place and myth. Investigations into material forms of expression of places as scenes of mythical events
26.05.2025, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr

Lecture by Dr. Will Kennedy (Athens) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium

Merci Maman. Street photography in Mali
16.05.2025 - 16.11.2025

Special exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

Lecture Jutta-Held-Prize 2025 – Julia Gelshorn: Between Popular Front and Popular Art. Art history as a social project with Madeleine Rousseau
29.10.2025, 18:15 - 20:00 Uhr

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Julia Gelshorn at the Central Institute for Art History

James Loeb Lecture 2025 – Johannes Myssok: The new antiquity(ies) of the 18th century
26.11.2025, 18:15 - 19:15 Uhr

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Johannes Myssok at the Central Institute for Art History

Workshop – Unknown church silver: New research in the St. Annen Museum Lübeck
24.10.2025, 15:00 - 17:30 Uhr

Workshop at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

Artists, works and history(ies): On the exhibition “Im Visier! Lovis Corinth and the ‘Degenerate Art’ campaign” at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
22.10.2025, 18:15 - 19:30 Uhr

Lecture at the opening of the exhibition “Becoming Corinth! The artist and art history” at the Central Institute for Art History.

Colloquium – Provenienz- und Sammlungsforschung XV „R. in M.“ Researching Jacques & Emma Rosenthal‘s lost art collection
06.10.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Colloquium at the Central Institute for Art History

Representing Blackness in the Art of the Spanish Empire: a Comparative Study of Works in the Imperial Court and Port Cities
24.09.2025, 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr

Workshop with Kana Fukumoto at the Central Institute for Art History

Introductory Seminar: How to Research Nazi-Looted Art | Part I | Sources from the Nazi Era (1933-1945)
09.10.2025, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr

Online introductory seminar at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in cooperation with the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project and the Technische Universität Berlin

Introductory Seminar: How to Research Nazi-Looted Art | Part II | Sources from the postwar period (after 1945)
16.10.2025, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr

Online introductory seminar at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in cooperation with the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project and the Technische Universität Berlin

Introductory Seminar: How to Research Nazi-Looted Art | Part III | Other important digital sources (art dealer archives, key databases, etc.)
23.10.2025, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr

Online introductory seminar at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in cooperation with the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project and the Technische Universität Berlin

Open Monument Day 2025
14.09.2025, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Two guided tours at the Central Institute for Art History on the occasion of Open Monument Day 2025