Alte Pinakothek

WOW !!! what an amazing museum ... 1 one room they have 9 Rembrandts ... HOLY cow .. not even in Amsterdam do they have that !!! 3 Raphaels in another room ... and the Highlight of the Museum is the Peter Paul Rubens ... an entire gallery of them ... about 40 of them .... I have been stunned !!! Oh and did I mention a Da Vinci painting also !!!!

Took us about 2 hours to go thru the entire museum ... and we didn't rush it ...

Just breathtaking ...

One tip ... instead of climbing the endless amount of stairs as you enter .... go to your right to the lift to the shop .. you will thank me later !

This is a huge museum. I bought the combo package which got us into the Alte Pinakothek plus the Pinakothek Moderne(& one more that we didn't get to). In the morning we had the place mostly to ourselves. But as we finished, more people arrived. It was nice to see so many Rubens, plus more.

Amazing, must see, do not miss it! Amazing collection, great presentation. Van Dyck & Rubens galore!

The Alte Pinakothek  is one of the oldest art galleries in the world, and was completed in 1836. I was interested to discover that "Alte" means "Old" in German, and the Museum name refers to the time period covered by the collection from the 14th -18th century. The process to visit the museum was easy, as tickets can be purchased on line and public transportation readily available. I want to acknowledge "Franz" , who greeted us at the door, as the friendliest museum employee we have encountered in Europe! The building layout is pretty straightforward with elevator access as well. Bathrooms are clean and free and lockers available with a Euro coin deposit ( returned when items retrieved). There is a cafe on sight, serving dessert and coffee ( even though the sign also lists sandwiches, the employee told us they don't have them- with no further explanation). Audio Guides cost 5 Euros. All exhibits have explanations in English. There were a tremendous amount of museum personnel in exhibit rooms, regularly cautioning people not to get too close to the artwork. They have some FAMOUS paintings at this museum, including: Self-Portrait with Fur-trimmed Robe, by Albrecht Dürer, The Rape of Daughter of Leucippus by Peter Paul Rubens, a self portrait by Rembrandt, and
Beggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon by Bartolome Estebanand Murillo. The museum also has one of the Van Gogh Sunflower paintings " One Vase with Twelve Sunflowers". These are just a few examples. This museum is a great place to spend a few hours in Munich and a chance to see Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish and Germany old master paintings.

This is a wonderful museum if your focus is German and Finnish and Dutch.
In that world it is here.g

I loved this museum. I was bummed I wasn't able to see the entire collection due to the renovations, but so happy for what was available.
I loved it, and was deeply moved. Gorgeous stairway, windows especially at the right time of day.
I can't wait to go back once it's the renovations have been completed.

Alte Pinakotehek is one of the many art museums in Munich. The others are Neue and Der Moderne Pinakotek, Sammlung Schack, and Brandhorst.

Alte, like the name implies, means "old". It mainly consists of paintings from 13th to 18th centuries. Since it is a German Art museums, there are plenty of German, Italian, Flemish, and Dutch paintings featured.

This place isn't too big, but it will take a day to take in everything. I liked how the Pinakoteheken are divided into 3 periods. Each museum will probably take a day to see it all. I like this better than The Chicago or NY Met, since they are gigantic art museums, and you need multiple days to see everything. Instead, the Alte should take no more than 1 day (or 2 slow days) to get through.

During Sundays, it's only 1 Euro to get in. On other days, it's 12 Euros. You get an audio guide. At first, it was confusing how to use the Audio guide, since not every piece has the audio guide.

Under specific pieces, you will see an Speaker Icon and a number. Those are the ones you type in to listen to the audio guide.

There are other numbers below the art pieces, but they're not for the audio guide. If they don't have the speaker icon next to it, they're just numbers.

To get here via U-bahn, you should get out of the Odeonplatz or Universität station and walk. I think Universität is a bit closer. Anyways, it's not close to a U-bahn station.

Sunday's are considered sacred in Germany and many places are closed, museums are one of the things open and they are cheap! It cost one euro to go to Old Pinacotheca, the lines get long considering the cost is so low. There are a lot of surrounding museums to visit after just across the way. The inside of the museum is beautiful, a lot of German, Finnish and Dutch works. I did feel like my every move was being watched while inside, that would be my only complaint. There are lockers located at the entrance and I probably should have placed my jacket there because I was constantly being told to hold it close to me in a ball.

I saw the most incredible painting I have ever seen here, it was a piece of work by Peter Paul Rubens and it moved me in ways art has never done before. The moment I saw this painting I was in awe. I starred at this painting for 30 minutes, went and saw more work then circled back to spend more time admiring it. The detail, color, and emotion of the painting just blew me away. I loved all the collections they had of Rubens work, so many large scale paintings to admire. There is a copy of the Mona Lisa inside that was very cool to see. Pieces by Da Vinci and Rembrandt as well.

I would highly recommend visiting if you have time for some historic museums!

Went on Sunday. Very hot day.€1 Admission..
What spectacular collection..
The museum was very crowded due to the being the last day of the caravaggio..exhibit ..
I wish we had more time to visit more art museums

This museum is currently under reconstruction, but still well worth a visit.

What i liked
-The worldclass paintings: A leonardo da vinci, some rembrandts and several rubens.
- Looking at the leonardo without the crowds you would see in st petersburg, italy or the louvre.
- museum is very walkable from centre of town
- entrance to museum is very affordable