The major shows
Large-scale exhibitions of international contemporary artists in soaring halls.
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If the programme doesn't tempt you, take the outside: walk the building, read its history panels, watch the wave surfers behind it and enter the English Garden — an excellent free hour.
Where the artificial Eisbach stream shoots from under the bridge it forms a permanent standing wave, for decades now a serious surf spot with its own queue. Watching from the bridge is free and fun in every season — they surf even in snow.
Use it as the English Garden's gate: show, then wave, then a walk to the Monopteros and the Japanese teahouse in the park. Or reverse it: garden first, museum in the evening on its long hours.
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The "House of Art" is a vast exhibition hall at the edge of the English Garden, and its history is a lesson in itself: the Nazi regime built it in 1937 as a temple for approved "German art", opening it alongside a counter-show defaming modern art as "degenerate". After the war the tables turned completely — the building itself became a stage for everything the regime tried to erase. Today it ranks among Europe's leading contemporary art venues: no permanent collection, but major rotating exhibitions of international artists — so check what is on before going; the visit is worth what the current show is worth. Its position makes it easy: at the English Garden's entrance, with the famous Eisbach river wave directly behind — surfers riding a standing wave in mid-city, Munich's oddest and most photographed sight.
Large-scale exhibitions of international contemporary artists in soaring halls.
Monumental Nazi architecture whose purpose was completely inverted — history legible in stone.
Urban surfers on a permanent river wave — directly behind the building.
Prinzregentenstrasse 1, 80538 Munich