Alte Pinakothek tickets: €9, €1 on Sundays, and one €12 ticket for four museums

💡 The Short Version: The Alte Pinakothek is €9 (€6 reduced), and €1 on Sundays for any visitor, as is each of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst and Sammlung Schack. A €12 day ticket covers all four, sold only at a museum ticket office. All of them are closed on Mondays (the Schack on Tuesdays too). The Alte Pinakothek stays open to 20:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the other two big museums on Thursday. The Neue Pinakothek is closed until 2029, and a selection of its 19th-century works hangs in the Alte Pinakothek and the Schack. Under 18s are free. Or buy a pass: the Munich City Passad includes all four museums and is from €39.90 (GetYourGuide), but the €12 ticket is cheaper for art alone.

Tickets and prices

Prices are the adult rate from the Bavarian State Painting Collections, which runs all four museums, and are for the permanent collections.

The entrance front of the Alte Pinakothek. Photo: AuHaidhausen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

• The Sunday €1 is per museum. It has no residence, age or ID condition, so it applies to tourists. Special exhibitions that charge extra are not included, and the €1 is for Sundays only: the same ticket costs €9 on Easter Monday.
• Free: children and young people under 18, pupils over 18 with a school ID, and art, art-history and aesthetics students. Students and visitors over 65 pay the reduced price with ID.
• Where to buy: the online ticket shop on pinakothek.de, or the museum ticket offices. The €12 day ticket is not sold online.
• Annual ticket: €90, or €60 reduced, for the four museums, the special exhibitions and the branch galleries across Bavaria.
• Open on holidays from 10:00 to 18:00 on 6 January, Good Friday to Easter Monday, Whit Sunday and Monday, Ascension Day, 15 August, 3 October, 1 November, 26 December and 1 January. Closed on 1 May, Shrove Tuesday, 24, 25 and 31 December.

The pass question

GetYourGuide sells no entry ticket for the Pinakotheken, only passes. Prices are the lowest “from” prices.

Munich City Pass

From €39.90 · 4.2 stars from 194 reviews

Munich: Official City Passad is the same pass München Tourismus sells on munich.travel. The 1-day pass without transport is €39.90, and it gives free entry to the Alte Pinakothek, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst, the Sammlung Schack, the Glyptothek, the Lenbachhaus and other museums, as well as the Residenz and Nymphenburg. It pays only with the palaces: the four art museums on the €12 day ticket cost less, and on a Sunday they cost €4 together.

Munich Card

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Munich: Official City Card for Public Transport & Discountsad is the 24-hour card with zone M transport. It takes €3 off the Alte Pinakothek, which makes it a transport ticket with a small discount. Munich City Pass or Munich Card has the sums.

What to see

The Pinakotheken are the Bavarian State Painting Collections, shown in separate museums. Allow about two hours for the Alte Pinakothek and the same for the Pinakothek der Moderne.

The Rubens room in the Alte Pinakothek. Photo: Mattes, Wikimedia Commons.

1. The Alte Pinakothek, old masters. The museum’s own list of masterpieces includes Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of the Carnation (about 1475), Albrecht Dürer’s Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe (1500), Albrecht Altdorfer’s The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1529) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Land of Cockaigne (1567). Peter Paul Rubens is there with The Great Last Judgement and The Fall of the Damned, Rembrandt with a self-portrait of 1629, and Raphael with the Canigiani Holy Family. The paintings hang in the Upper Gallery, in rooms numbered with Roman numerals. A free web app at app.pinakothek.de offers six tours for adults.
2. The Pinakothek der Moderne, art. The 20th and 21st centuries: the museum’s highlights include August Macke, Maria Lassnig, Dan Flavin, Neo Rauch, Oskar Schlemmer, August Sander and Max Beckmann. Individual rooms close in turn for installation, and the museum lists the closed rooms by date on its visit page.
3. Museum Brandhorst, contemporary art. It holds a permanent Cy Twombly exhibition, open since 1 June 2009, and the collection show “Long Story Short”, which runs to 12 September 2027. The ground floor is closed until the exhibition “In My Head” opens on 29 October 2026.
4. The Sammlung Schack, 19th-century German painting. About 150 paintings on three floors, among them Carl Spitzweg’s Türken in einem Kaffeehaus, works by Arnold Böcklin and Anselm Feuerbach, and Joseph Karl Stieler’s portrait of Goethe. The building has stairs and no lift.
5. The Neue Pinakothek, closed. It holds the 19th-century masterpieces, including van Gogh’s Sunflowers, and is under renovation. A selection of the important works is on show on the ground floor of the Alte Pinakothek and in the Sammlung Schack, and the museum’s online collection lists which.

The Sammlung Schack on Prinzregentenstraße. Photo: Fentriss, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

What to skip: separate tickets. The Alte Pinakothek and the Pinakothek der Moderne together cost €19, against €12 for the day ticket. The order that works: on a Sunday, take the Alte Pinakothek and the Pinakothek der Moderne at €1 each, and on a weekday use the late openings.

Practical information

• Where: the Alte Pinakothek is at Barer Straße 27, with its entrance on Theresienstraße, and the Pinakothek der Moderne at Barer Straße 40. Museum Brandhorst is at Theresienstraße 35a, and the Sammlung Schack at Prinzregentenstraße 9.
• Getting there: tram 27 or 28 to Pinakotheken, the U2 to Königsplatz or Theresienstraße, or the U3, U6, U4 or U5 to Odeonsplatz. Bus 100, the museum line, stops at Pinakotheken. The Schack is on the U4 and U5 at Lehel. There is no parking near the museums.
• Bags: the Alte Pinakothek cloakroom on the ground floor takes jackets and bags for €1 a person, and lockers take a €1 or €2 deposit. The Schack allows bags up to 30 x 20 x 10 cm.
• Lifts: all exhibition areas of the Alte Pinakothek and Museum Brandhorst are reachable by lift. The Schack has none.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving on a Monday. All four are closed, and the Schack is closed on Tuesdays as well.

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