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An interactive exhibition of contemporary art and design installations in the Hofstatt passage off Sendlinger Straße, open since July 2023. More than 20 themed rooms and photo sets cover optical illusions, infinity mirrors and an upside-down room, designed for visitors to explore and photograph over about 90 minutes.

The world's largest museum of science and technology, founded in 1903 by engineer Oskar von Miller and built on an island in the Isar. About 125,000 objects across 50 fields are on show, from historic aircraft and ships to mining and energy technology, drawing around 1.5 million visitors a year.

One of the world's oldest purpose-built gallery buildings, built 1826-1836 by Leo von Klenze and opened in 1836. Part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, it houses an Old Master collection spanning the 14th to 18th century. Damaged in the Second World War, it was restored in altered form by Hans Döllgast in 1952-1957.

A museum of decorative and folk arts in Munich, founded by King Maximilian II of Bavaria in 1855 and housed since 1900 in a historicist building by Gabriel von Seidl on Prinzregentenstraße. Its galleries hold the former Wittelsbach art collection alongside sculpture, furniture, tapestries and folklore objects spanning late antiquity to the early 20th century.