Frommer's Review
In 2002, one of the world's largest museums devoted to the visual arts of the 19th and 20th centuries opened in Munich, just minutes from the Alte and Neue Pinakothek. This is the country's vastest display of fine and applied arts as, for the first time, four major collections came together under one roof. This is Munich's version of the Tate Gallery in London or the Pompidou in Paris.
Wander where your interest dictates: the Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst (State Gallery of Modern Art), with paintings, sculpture, photography, and video; Die Neue Sammlung, which constitutes the national museum of applied art featuring design and craftwork; the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität (University of Architecture museum), with architectural drawings, photographs, and models; and the Staatliche Grapische Sammlung, with its outstanding collection of prints and drawings.
Whenever we visit, we spend most of our time in the modern art collection, lost in a world of our favorite artists such as Picasso, Magritte, Klee, Kandinsky, and even Francis Bacon, de Kooning, and Warhol. The museum also owns 400,000 drawings and prints from Leonardo da Vinci to Cézanne up to contemporary artists. They are presented at alternating exhibits.
The architectural galleries hold the largest specialist collection of its kind in Germany, comprising some 350,000 drawings, 100,000 photographs, and 500 models. The applied arts section features more than 50,000 items. You go from the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution up to today's computer culture, with exhibitions of Art Nouveau and Bauhaus along the way.
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