After 3 days of uber-Bavarian excitement, Marthese decided she needed to spend the day in. I could relate, but the bargain hunter in me was tickled by the prospect of all the art museums costing 1 euro on Sundays. So off I went.

1. Alte Pinakothek – 14th – 19th century European art from everyone. More Leaonardos, Raphaels, Botticellis – if I hadn’t just been to the Louvre I would’ve been losing my mind! The interesting stuff happened when the art styles changed with the reformation; Protestant art adopting a more realistic style that put an emphasis on personal readings of the bible and a mistrust of Church leaders (Durer’s suspicious looking apostles was a fascinating piece) while Catholic art went to town with more baroque action and angel frenzy. Sadly a major wing was closed for renovations so I couldn’t check out a fair few rooms, no Rembrandt for me.

2. Neue Pinakothek – Picking up where the last museum left off, paintings from 1800 to 1920. The museum was excellently laid out, and by the end of it I started to feel the art fatigue kick in – there was SO MUCH! This was a good companion museum to the D’Orsay, covering a similar era, and with lots of similar artists featured (Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet, lots more). Obviously there was a strong collection of German art but the amount of other European artists on display was surprising.

3. Pinakothek der Moderne – I had no idea a place like this was in Munich. Picks up from the last museum, focusing on the 20th century, the Pinakothek der Moderne is a massive white building with large branching wings and huge spaces for all kinds of art to be displayed. After the Pompidou experience last week, this basically spun me into art overdose. More Dali, Picasso, Ernst and a bunch of peeps I’d never heard of, each wing of the museum was dedicated to different arts like photography, paintings, architecture, and the most unique being the “design” wing that ranged from cars to furniture to old computers (an Apple II beside an original IBM laptop beside 4 differently coloured Playstation 2’s). A really great art museum that I’d have loved to spend more time in, certainly worth a visit if you have time in Munich.

Worn out but pleased I got my 3 euros worth, I headed home in the lovely Spring weather. Am pretty sweet on Munich right now.

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