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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

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

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

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

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

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

Uwe Timm and Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Narrating the colonial
28.10.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr

Reading and literary discussion at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

He Toi Ora. Soulful art of the Māori. On the trail of the carvings in the Museum Fünf Kontinente
17.10.2025 - 10.05.2026

Special exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

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

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

Having data, finding data. To the data infrastructure of the Photothek of the Central Institute for Art History
13.11.2025, 13:30 - 15:00 Uhr

Workshop at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

Current Research – Max Imdahl’s “Iconics” (1980). A synthesis of form analysis and iconology
19.11.2025, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr

Reading seminar at the ZI with Gerd Blum

Dolls: sex, violence, pornography
12.11.2025, 18:15 - 20:00 Uhr

Round table discussion with keynote speeches at the Central Institute for Art History

Mapping Memory and Remembrance of German presence in Massa and Mousgoum territories during the colonial period in Cameroon (1884-1916)
19.11.2025, 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr

Workshop with Azinaha Daniel at the Central Institute for Art History

Mutter(schaft) – The postpartum body as a signifier in contemporary photography
21.10.2025, 16:00 - 17:00 Uhr

Workshop with Kristin Weber at the Central Institute for Art History

Lecture Jutta-Held-Prize 2025 – 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 – 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

Unknown church silver: new research at the St. Annen Museum in 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