Museum sights in Munich
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SiemensForum
Southeast of the Pinakotheks is the SiemensForum. It's a fun, hands-on kind of place, with five floors of promotional exhibits on electronics and microelectronics, ranging from the telegraph to the PC.
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Antikensammlungen
Complementing the Glyptothek, the Antikensammlungen is an engaging showcase of exquisite Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities. The collection of Greek vases, each artistically decorated with gods and heroes, wars and weddings, is particularly outstanding. Other galleries present gold and silver jewellery and ornaments; figurines made from terracotta and more precious bronze; and super-fragile drinking vessels made from ancient glass.
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Filmmuseum
The Filmmuseum keeps things dynamic with well-curated screenings of tributes, retrospectives, foreign films, both old and new. Directors, actors and film historians often swing by for pre-show presentations.
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Museum Mensch und Natur
Kids will have plenty of ooh and aah moments in the Museum of Humankind & Nature, in the Schloss Nymphenburg north wing. Anything but old school, it puts a premium on interactive displays, models, audiovisual presentations and attractive animal dioramas. Sadly it's all in German but few language skills are needed to appreciate the visuals.
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Spielzeugmuseum
Spielzeugmuseum, in the south tower of Altes Rathaus (1474), has a huge collection of toys, Barbie dolls and teddy bears.
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Deutsches Theatermuseum
Trains the spotlight on theatre in German-speaking countries with sets, props, costumes, masks and programmes in changing themed exhibits.
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Foto Museum
This photography museum focuses on the early years of the medium, beginning around 1840.
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Jüdisches Museum München
Many decades in the planning, the Jüdisches Museum München is a major undertaking that attempts to come to terms with one of the most sinister chapters in the city's history. Contained within a modernist glass cube, the exhibits aim to show in a balanced, sensitive fashion the Jewish place in Munich's cultural landscape over the ages, from medieval times through to the horrors of the Third Reich and today's slow regeneration. Next door stands the quite forbidding, stone-clad new synagogue, built to finally replace the Romanesque synagogue that was razed by the Nazis in 1938.
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