Storytelling from Albrecht Altdorfer to Peter Paul Rubens
04.03.2026, 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr
Guided tour of the Alte Pinakothek with Collection Director Dr. Mirjam Neumeister
All Events
How pictures tell stories: Storytelling from Albrecht Altdorfer to Peter Paul Rubens
05.06.2025 - 05.07.2026
Exhibition at the Alte Pinakothek, curated by Gabriel Dette and Mirjam Neumeister
Spain and its painters – Murillo, Velázquez, El Greco
21.11.2025, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr
Guided tour of the Alte Pinakothek with Pamela Peyser-Kreis
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
From the hortus conclusus to the pleasure garden – garden culture over the centuries
26.02.2026, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Guided tour with Dr. Ilka Mestemacher
Regieren Sie doch selbst, Madame – Die Porzellansammlung der Prinzessin Henriette Louise
22.01.2026, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Guided tour of the Bavarian National Museum with Gabriele Lemos
King Ludwig I and his picture gallery
18.12.2025, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Guided tour of the Bavarian National Museum with Dr. Katharina Hantschmann
Elector Karl Albrecht – Emperor without a country
21.12.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Guided tour of the Bavarian National Museum with Dr. Katharina Hantschmann
Gregorian Chant and Art
11.12.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Führung mit durch das Bayerische Nationalmuseum mit Fr. Gregor Baumhof OSB und
Dr. Matthias Weniger
The treasure book of St. Emmeram
30.10.2025 - 01.03.2026
Special exhibition at the Bavarian National Museum
Recycling and upcycling around 1900
02.11.2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Guided tour of the Bavarian National Museum with Dr. Sigrid Epp
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
The paintings from the palace of Amenophis III of Malqata in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo: conservation and reinstallation
18.12.2025, 19:00 - 20:30 Uhr
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Martina Ullmann at the Institute of Egyptology and Coptology at LMU
Sculptures from Roman Sikyon: An example of the continued existence of an important artistic center of classical Greece in the Roman era
19.01.2026, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Dr. Natalia Kazakidi (Athens) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
Between planning and practice. Current research on the genesis of the urban space of Milet.
26.01.2026, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christof Berns as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
Reflections on form, surface and polychromy in Greek mablesculpture
12.01.2026, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Dr. Jan Stubbe Østergaard (Copenhagen) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
New research at the Gymnasium of Agrigento: From a unique ancient lecture hall and a new roof for the apodyterium
15.12.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Monika Trümper (Berlin) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
From archaeological evidence to ancient actors – reflections on depositions in an extra-urban sanctuary of the polis Akragas
01.12.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Prof. Natascha Sojc (Augsburg) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
“L’immortalità dell’idea di Roma”. Archaeology and the staging of antiquity in fascist Rome
08.12.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Prof. Ursula Quatember (Berlin) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
News on the Antikythera shipwreck – Results of the Swiss-Greek research 2021-2025
24.11.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Lorenz E. Baumer (Geneva) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
monumentum perennis memoriae. The sculptural decoration of the late antique domus in Rome
17.11.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Dr. Elisa Bazzechi (Würzburg) as part of the Archaeological Colloquium
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
Curator’s tour of the permanent exhibition Sub-Saharan Africa
15.02.2026, 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr
Tour with Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer through the permanent exhibition Sub-Saharan Africa
Kuratorinnenführung durch die Dauerausstellung Südwestasien und Nordafrika im Museum Fünf Kontinente
01.03.2026, 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr
Tour with Dr. Anahita Mittertrainer through the permanent exhibition Southwest Asia and North Africa
A collection of Anatolian carpets
11.01.2026, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Lecture by Dr. Michael Buddeberg at the Museum Fünf Kontinente as part of the Carpet Diem event series
Online conversation with a contemporary witness of the atomic bomb
With Teruko Yahata (contemporary witness) and Yōko Itami (interpreter) at the Museum Fünf Kontinente
The trail of colonialism
23.11.2025, 14:00 - 15:30 Uhr
Guided tour with Dr. Richard Hölzthrough the Museum Fünf Kontinente
Restitution and more: responsibility and cooperation in dealing with cultural heritage from the colonial era
13.11.2025, 19:00 - 20:30 Uhr
Lecture by Dr. Anna-Maria Brandstetter (Mainz) as part of the Lucian Scherman Lecture at the Museum Fünf Kontinente
The atomic bomb and its victims. Remembrance in the museums in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
12.11.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Lecture by Dr. André Hertrich (Austrian Academy of Sciences) at the Museum Fünf Kontinente
Día de Muertos
08.11.2025, 10:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Mexico” theme and family day at the Museum Five Continents
Exclusive tour of the exhibition followed by a tasting of New Zealand wines
05.11.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
An event as part of the program accompanying the special exhibition He Toi Ora. Soulful art of the Māori at the Museum Fünf Kontinente
Making social diversity visible in museums
29.10.2025 - 30.10.2025
Autumn Academy of the Bavarian Museum Academy in cooperation with the Museum Fünf Kontinente
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
Venetian portrait drawings around 1500: materiality and mediality
10.03.2026, 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr
Workshop with Esther Löffelbein at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Wiedergutmachung and Provenance Research: Accessing and Comprehending the Paper Trail
11.03.2026, 12:45 - 19:30 Uhr
Colloquium on Provenance and Collection Research XVI moderated by Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister
The Depot as a place of discovery. Reflections on research in the museum
04.02.2026, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr
Lecture by Dr. Antje Scherner as part of the lecture series “Museums at the ZI”
An academy on its own?
The symposium “Art and/or by women” 1982 The symposium “Art and/or by women” 1982
04.02.2026, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr
Reading seminar at the Central Institute for Art History with Beniamino Foschini
“Becoming Corinth! The artist and the history of art”
01.02.2026, 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Guided tour of the exhibition with Elias Neuhaus at the ZI
Local Aggression: Art Spoliation of Bavaria in the Late Nineteenth Century
04.02.2026, 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr
Workshop with Joanna Smalcerz at the ZI
Nazi-looted art: How can I research it? An introduction in three steps | Part 1
27.01.2026, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Seminar series of the JDCRP (Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project) in cooperation with the ZI, the German Lost Art Foundation and the University of Cologne
Photography in Munich II – Symposium on perspectives and networking in photography
29.01.2026, 10:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Symposium at the Central Institute for Art History
The “general expectation of better artistic conditions”. Relevance and reception of Anton Raphael Mengs
28.01.2026, 14:00 - 19:15 Uhr
Study day at the Central Institute for Art History
Slovenian Impressionists in Munich and Dachau – and What Did Kandinsky Have to Do with It?
21.01.2026, 18:15 - 20:50 Uhr
Roundtable Discussion with Keynote Speeches at the Central Institute for Art History