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The Deutsches Museum
A Science and Technology Museum located on an island in the River Isar, in Munich. The highly popular family’s destination is considered the largest museum of its kind in the world with more than 25,000 exhibits of more than 50 fields of science and technology. From the early astronomy instruments to the latest Aerospace Technology, and from a wooden fishing boat to the latest aircraft technology. The museum has hands on interactive demonstrations, experiments, and media stations, with special exhibits for children ages three to eight. The Deutsches Museum's flight exhibition center, Flugwerft Schleissheim, is in the Schleissheim Special Landing Field, 18 km north from Munich. The Flight Exhibition Center is home to exhibitions related to airplanes history including 1940 flying wing glider, Vietnam war fighter planes, Russian planes, and many more. Also part of the museum is Verkehrsmuseum, at Theresienhohe, Munich, home to the land transport collection of the Museum.

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The Alte Pinakothek
An art museum in the Kunstareal area in Munich, one of the oldest galleries and most important in the world. The museum is home to a large and impressive collection of old masters' paintings from the 13th-18th centuries period, including Early Italian, Old German, Old Dutch and Flemish paintings. The museum collection includes paintings by the German Albrecht Durer, Lochner, and Holbein, by the Dutch and Flamish Rembrandt van Rijn, Rubens, Brueghel, and van Dyck, by the Italian Giotto, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, and by the Spanish El Greco, de la Cruz, Velázquez, among many others.

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The Neue Pinakothek
An art museum in the Kunstareal area in Munich, one of the most important 19th century art museums in the world. From the Enlightenment period to early modernity, from classicism to art nouveau, the museum is home to an impressive collection of paintings and sculptures from the 18th century through to the early 20th century. The collection includes paintings by the masters such as Goya, Gainsborough, Delacroix, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Degas, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec, among many others, and sculptures by artists such as Rodin, Picasso, Thorvaldsen, Canova, and more.

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The Pinakothek der Moderne
A modern art museum in the Kunstareal area of Munich considered one of the world's largest modern and contemporary art museums, and one of the most popular of its kind in Europe. Various art movements of the 20th century are represented in the museum including Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, New Objectivity, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimal Art. In addition to the art categories collections enjoy the Theo Worml and surrealism collection, Woty and Theodor Werner collection of Paul Klee and the Cubists, Martha and Mark Kruss collection of Expressionism, and more. The museum main collection includes Modernism Art since the 1900s, including works by Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, Oskar Kokoschka, Salvador Dalí, and many others. The German Expressionism is represented by works of the Die Brucke, and the Der Blaue Reiter groups. International Contemporary Art is represented by works of Andy Warhol, Henry Moore, David Hockney and many others. Also in the museum various Video, Photos and New Media art works, the Collection of applied modernist art including industrial design and graphic design works. Enjoy a collection of works including drawing masterpieces by Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, David Hockney and others.

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The Glyptothek
A museum in the Kunstareal area of Munich within an impressive Neoclassical building. The museum was founded by King Ludwig I to be the home of his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures from 650 BC to the Roman 550 AD, Mosaics, and other artifacts.

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BMW Welt and BMW Museum
A combined exhibition, special car orders delivery, adventure museum, and event venue in the district of Am Riesenfeld, next to the Olympic Park in Munich. Both the BMW Welt and the museum are one of the most visited tourist attractions in Bavaria. In the BMW Welt a showroom of the current model lineup of BMW cars and motorcycles, and the other BMW Group brands, Mini and Rolls-Royce. The BMW Museum is an automotive museum of BMW history located near the BMW Welt and the Olympic Park in Munich. In the museum displays of 120 cars, motorcycles and other items, and the "Time Horizon(s)" exhibition of BMW's technology developments throughout the company's history including engines, turbines, aircraft, motorcycles, vehicles, and conceptual studies.

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Munich’s Toy Museum
The Spielzeugmuseum is located within the clock tower of Munich old town hall, and it is home to unique vintage toys from all over the world. The museum collection includes Dolls, Teddy Bears, animals, vehicles, carousels, toy trains, vintage Barbies, and many more items.

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