Top rated Museums in Munich, Germany to elevate your visit (Updated February, 2024)

Top rated Museums in Munich

Experience the best that Munich has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 39 places from Museum category.

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Sudetendeutsches Museum

Museum

👍👍 We literally spent 3.5 h in the museum and I have to say we really enjoyed it. The exhibition, the history of the Sudeten Germans since their arrival to Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia until their expulsion after WW2 and so on to these days! The museum building itself is an architectural beauty. We lov...

4.80 (162 reviews) (~1.26 km from centre)

Antiquarium

Museum

Long, colorfully painted room in a castle built in the 16th century to house antique sculptures.

4.80 (69 reviews) (~0.47 km from centre)

NS-Dokumentationszentrum München

Museum

Museum with permanent & temporary exhibits focusing on the history of Munich during WWI & WWII.

4.70 (2.9K reviews) (~1.08 km from centre)

Residenzmuseum

Museum

This former royal palace hosts a museum & gardens with original interiors & royal collections.

4.70 (2.4K reviews) (~0.45 km from centre)

Kunstfoyer VKB

Art museum

👍👍 Excellent photography exhibitions with a free entrance, one of my favorite place in Munich! Never disappoints.

4.70 (514 reviews) (~1.08 km from centre)

Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V.

Museum

👍👍 The hall of the University of Munich is a historic location where brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl distributed their famous pamphlets ('Flugblätter der Weissen Rose') to encourage their fellow students to resist the Nazis. This has been made a moving film in 'Die letzten fünf Tage'. The pol...

4.70 (52 reviews) (~1.53 km from centre)

Munich Residenz

Castle

Palace, buildings & gardens housing state-owned museums, with original interiors & artworks.

4.60 (16.5K reviews) (~0.6 km from centre)

Munich Museum of Egyptian Art

Art museum

Archeological museum dedicated to Egypt, featuring 2,000+ artifacts spanning 5,000 years of history.

4.60 (3.6K reviews) (~1.22 km from centre)

Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung

Art museum

Museum with changing themed exhibitions of classic, modern & decorative art, design & photography.

4.60 (2.7K reviews) (~0.32 km from centre)

Glyptothek

Art museum

King Ludwig I's huge collection of classical sculpture housed in a grand 19th-century building.

4.60 (1.3K reviews) (~1.25 km from centre)

Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum

Museum

Quirky museum, within a city gate, dedicated to the entertainers Karl Valentin & Liesl Karlstadt.

4.60 (750 reviews) (~0.53 km from centre)

Die Neue Sammlung

Art museum

Opened in 1925, this prominent museum displays 100,000 product- & industrial-design items.

4.60 (124 reviews) (~1.21 km from centre)

Deutsches Museum

Technology museum

Huge technology museum with original artifacts & interactive energy, transport & astronomy displays.

4.50 (34.6K reviews) (~1 km from centre)

Pinakothek der Moderne

Art museum

Vast, contemporary museum housing art, architecture, design & graphics of the 19th & 20th centuries.

4.50 (7.8K reviews) (~1.14 km from centre)

Bavarian National Museum

Art museum

Major cultural history museum with a vast collection, from 5th-century church art to antique clocks.

4.50 (2.1K reviews) (~1.34 km from centre)

Staatliche Antikensammlungen

Archaeological museum

Elegant 19th-century hall with a collection of decorative arts recovered from ancient civilizations.

4.50 (383 reviews) (~1.18 km from centre)

Sammlung Schack

Museum

Gallery with 19th-century German art featuring European landscapes, plus works by Arnold Böcklin.

4.50 (215 reviews) (~1.45 km from centre)

Munich Film Archive

Movie theater

Museum in former stables with 165 seat cinema screening silent movies & classics from its archive.

4.50 (150 reviews) (~0.31 km from centre)

Geologisches Museum München

Museum

👍👍 Little free of charge museum which is located in university building. Really liked it even if it wasn't big. One little thing though, i would have liked more information in English but it's nothing because i can understand some German.

4.50 (82 reviews) (~1.4 km from centre)

Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München

Museum

👍👍 Hier kann München mithalten mit allen großen Museen in Europa. Selbst die bedauerlicherweise auf Jahre geschlossene Neue Pinakothek kann das Vergnügen über diese Ansammlung hochkarätiger Museen mit großartiger Kunst nicht wirklich trüben: in der Pinakothek der Moderne wird aktuell eine grandiose Ma...

4.50 (75 reviews) (~1.13 km from centre)

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