This city is the OG of Art Museums. Indeed, Munich was among the first to open its impressive curated collections to the public. Collecting – compulsive and conspicuous, of painting, sculpture, books – became trendy among Central European and Italian princes during the Renaissance times. The Habsburg collections of applied art objects and curiosities started by Ferdinand I in Vienna and by Rudolph II in 16th century Prague and since moved to Vienna, are the most important of all. Joining the ranks of Europe’s more significant ones are the Kunstkammer – Chamber of Art – collections of the Saxon Electors in Dresden and of those of Bavaria and Palatinate in Munich. The path from an esoteric princely hobby to a mainstream public museum took centuries, but – here too the city of Ludwig I was decades ahead of its cultural superiors – Munich‘s major museums, purpose-built around these core collections, opened their doors in the early 1800’s, only a couple of decades behind the first non-university museums in other European capitals. The Bavarian capital became one of the early epicenters of 19th century European visual art, in production, not just in the accumulation of the works of art. When half a century later Kandinsky chose this city as his residence over Paris and Vienna, it was certainly for a reason. Done

I stayed 5 days and a couple day trips and it was the perfect amount of time. I didn’t feel like I missed anything I really wanted to experience and I still want more so will return in the future

I’m in love with Germany!

Be sure to spend some time at the English Gardens beer garden

Yikes, that’s hard! Hafbrauhaus and watching the surfers