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Exhibition tour “Proud ostrich and angry tiger”
14.04.2026, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Guided tour of the Alte Pinakothek with Jochen Meister

Dandies and thinkers – men’s fashion in the 19th century
11.03.2026, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Evening tour of the Alte Pinakothek

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

Ephemeris. Dolomites / Wadden Sea
26.03.2026, 17:30 - 18:30 Uhr

Guided tour with the artist Georg Tappeiner through the exhibition in the Bavarian National Museum

Dolomites | Wadden Sea – Photographs by Georg Tappeiner
26.03.2026 - 24.04.2026

Special exhibition at the Bavarian National Museum

Die Prunkgewänder der Lauinger Fürstengruft – Höfische Mode der Spätrenaissance
12.03.2026, 18:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Guided tour of the Bavarian National Museum with Dr. Thomas Schindler

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

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

Sunday guided tour through the special exhibition He Toi Ora. Soulful art of the Māori
19.04.2026, 11:30 - 12:30 Uhr

One-hour tour of the Museum Five Continents

The Buddha wears Prada
18.03.2026, 14:00 - 17:00 Uhr

Textile workshop with Sarnt Utamachote on the occasion of the International Weeks against Racism at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

And where are you really from? Provenances, histories and perspectives on objects in the permanent exhibition Southwest Asia and North Africa
22.03.2026, 11:00 - 13:00 Uhr

Workshop with curator Dr. Anahita Mittertrainer at the Museum Fünf Kontinente as part of the International Weeks against Racism

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

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

Materializing Sacred Language: Picturing and Performing Hebrew in Late Medieval Art
15.04.2026, 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr

Workshop by Reed O’Mara at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

Provenance Research Day 2026: Provenance research at the ZI – The holdings of the library and Photothek
08.04.2026, 15:00 - 16:00 Uhr

Guided tour with Lena Schneider and Cosima Dollansky at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

“Powerful chest, bold neck, magnificent masculinity!” Nude photography of the male body since 1930
15.04.2026, 18:15 - 20:00 Uhr

Lecture by Änne Söll at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

The Paleontology of Print. Lithographic Limestone and the Nature of Reproducibility
18.03.2026, 18:30 - 19:15 Uhr

Lecture by Susan Dackerman as part of the workshop “Resources of Printmaking – Printmaking as Resource”

Forgeries and Networks (ForNet): The Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes and forgery networks in the 20th century
18.03.2026, 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr

Workshop with Dr. Rebecca Welkens at the Central Institute for Art History

Beaux-Arts Worldbuilding: Andrew Carnegie’s Empire of Architecture
11.03.2026, 11:45 - 12:45 Uhr

Workshop with David Sadighian at the Central Institute for Art History

undressed | undressed: The nude in art historical research
16.04.2026 - 02.10.2026

Exhibition at the Central Institute for Art History

Resources of Printmaking – Printmaking as Resource. Shifting Perspectives on Early Modern Print
18.03.2026 - 20.03.2026

Workshop at the Central Institute for Art History

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