The Alte Pinakothek - Access Munich

The Alte Pinakothek from the street — Photograph by -wuppertaler, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

One of the great Old Master collections in Europe — and on a Sunday it costs almost nothing.

What it costs

Ticketed, and modest for what it holds. But the fact worth planning around: the Bavarian state collections charge a nominal admission on Sundays — a fraction of the weekday price, at the same museums.

That applies to the Alte Pinakothek, the Neue Pinakothek’s collection, the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Brandhorst and others in the same quarter. Temporary exhibitions are usually excluded.

The Alte Pinakothek and its sculpture — Photograph by -wuppertaler, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

When to go

Closed on Monday, like most of the Kunstareal. Sunday is cheap and correspondingly busy — go early. One evening a week it opens late, which is the quietest time of all.

Getting there

U-Bahn U2 to Königsplatz, or trams to Pinakotheken. Several major museums stand within a few minutes’ walk of each other here.

A lion at the entrance to the Alte Pinakothek — Photograph by AuHaidhausen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

If you only have an hour

If it is a Sunday, this is nearly free, so go in even for an hour. Head for the Rubens rooms and Altdorfer’s Battle of Alexander. On a Monday it is shut — the Deutsches Museum is the answer instead.

What people get wrong

Visitors expecting a palace find a nineteenth-century gallery rebuilt after severe war damage — the scars in the brickwork of the facade were deliberately left visible. What it holds is the point: Dürer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Leonardo, and one of the great Altdorfer paintings.

A Leonardo Madonna in the Alte Pinakothek — Photograph by Leonardo da Vinci, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

Nearby

The Munich ResidenzMax-Joseph-Platz, Altstadt Nymphenburg PalaceNeuhausen-Nymphenburg OdeonsplatzNorth end of the Altstadt The Deutsches MuseumMuseumsinsel, on the Isar

Ticketing arrangements and opening patterns as published for 2026 and checked on 4 September 2026. These change without much warning — confirm with the site itself before you travel. More sights, and how they fit together, in Landmarks & Sights.