Info & Tickets

Please note:

• A timeslot allows admission to the museum at any time from 10 am.
• Purchasing an online ticket does not provide priority access to the museum.
• Tickets for guided tours are only available on site at the museum, not online or by telephone.

On public holidays, the Pinakotheken, Museum Brandhorst and the Schack Collection are generally open at the usual opening hours that apply on that particular weekday.

Our museum is open as usual on the following public holidays:

• New Year’s Day (1 January 2025)
• Epiphany (6 January 2025)
• Easter (Good Friday to Easter Monday, 18 April – 21 April 2025)
• Ascension Day (29 May 2025)
• Whitsun (Whit Sunday and the following Monday, 8 June – 9 June 2025)
• Corpus Christi (19 June 2025, until 6:00 PM)
• Assumption Day (15 August 2025)
• Day of German Unity (3 October 2025)
• All Saints’ Day (1 November 2025)
• Boxing Day (26 December 2025)

Our museum is closed on the following public holidays:

• Shrove Tuesday
• Labor Day (1 May 2025)
• Christmas Eve (24 December 2025)
• Christmas Day (25 December 2025)
• New Year’s Eve (31 December 2025)

Exceptions are stated separately, subject to change.

From Tuesday to Saturday, visits by groups are possible. Registration of the visit with the visitor service via buchung@pinakothek.de is necessary.

If you would like to book a guided tour, please complete the booking form at www.pinakothek.de/besuch. If you have any further questions, please contact the Visitor Service (buchung@pinakothek.de or +49 (0)89 238058-284).

We can only guarantee that the booking will be processed if it is sent at least five working days beforehand. If you would like to visit our museums with a larger group (more than 25 people), we require a lead time of approximately two weeks for processing. Please also note that there is a very high demand for group visits at the following times: before and after Easter / the Bavarian Easter vacations, the end of July and the end of September / beginning of October. At these times, a group visit cannot be guaranteed.

When planning your group tour, please note the following binding rules:

• Please comply with the maximum group size. In the major galleries, this is 12 people.
• Please be considerate of other individual visitors and groups.
• Please complete your tour 15 minutes before the museum closes.
• Please notify us of all tours and group visits in writing in a timely manner.
• At special exhibitions, certain time windows and reduced group sizes must sometimes be observed.

We ask you to advise your group of the following binding rules prior to the beginning of their tour:

• Please leave bags larger than an A4 sheet of paper, as well as umbrellas, canes, and backpacks in the cloakroom.
• Smoking, eating, and drinking are not permitted in the galleries or the entrance area.
• The folding chairs are intended for people who have difficulty standing for longer periods.
• Photographs for private purposes are permitted without the use of a flash or tripod.
• Please switch your mobile telephone off.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Contact:
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Visitor Services | Art Education
Barer Straße 29, 80799 Munich

Combined tickets are valid for admission to several museums (Alte Pinakothek, Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst and Sammlung Schack during the respective opening hours) on one day. Combined tickets do not entitle the holder to admission to special exhibitions for which a charge is made.

Combined ticket: 12 €

Online Combined ticket

By purchasing our Annual Pass, you will get free access to our museums including Alte Pinakothek, Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst, Sammlung Schack, and all Bavarian State branch galleries including the admission to special exhibitions in our museums.

The start of validity (for 365 days) is freely selectable and can be specified when personalising the Annual Pass after purchase. The Annual Pass is personal and not transferable.

Online Annual Passes can be purchased  in digital form (as PDF and Passbook/Wallet).

For a printed card, please buy the Annual Pass at the cash desk at the museum.

Please note, that the Neue Pinakothek is expected to be closed to the public until 2029 for construction reasons.

Exchange and cash payment excluded.

Regular: 90 €
Reduced: 60 €
Online Annual Passes

The following persons are entitled to reduced admission upon presentation of proof of eligibility (ID or verification as listed below):

• Senior citizens aged 65 and over
• Students and participants in courses of the Goethe-Institut. Valid student ID from your university, college or the Goethe-Institut must be presented. If the ID does not show a date of expiry, we recommend that you acquire an International Student Identity Card (ISIC), which will display this date.
• Severely disabled (the registered companion shall be admitted free of charge)
• Tour and visitor groups with at least 15 participants. Admission must be purchased by one person (tour guide or similar) and settled.
• In exceptional cases, reduced admission is also available for visitor groups of fewer than 15 persons, whose visit is conducted by a charity. In such a case, please contact the Visitor Service with sufficient advance notice (e-mail: buchung@pinakothek.de).
• Members of the following associations: the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker e.V., the Berufsverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler and the Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler in ver.di Bayern
• Persons currently in their voluntary year of service (Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr) and participants in the voluntary ecological year (Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr)
• Persons currently doing voluntary military service, and volunteers under the Federal Voluntary Services Act
• Local conservationists

Admission is free for school classes, preschoolers, daycare groups, youth groups from EU member states, as long as they are accompanied to the museum by a teacher or supervisor.

In addition, admission is also free for the following persons, upon presentation of proof of eligibility (ID or verification as listed below):

• Children and young people aged 18 and under
• All school pupils older than 18 (except pupils at evening secondary schools, colleges, distance-learning courses and language schools). Valid pupil ID or (for groups) a letter from the school must be presented as proof.
• Students of the subjects of art, art history, aesthetics and art education. Valid student ID from your university or college on which the subject of study is noted must be presented. If the ID does not show a date of expiry, we recommend that you acquire an International Student Identity Card (ISIC), which will display this date.
• Teachers, youth group leaders, supervisors during the museum visits of the children’s youth and school groups under your care, as well as in preparation for a museum visit. We request that you present a current letter from your school or institution at the cash desk.
• University teachers in the context of lectures with the students under your supervision in the subjects of art, art history, aesthetics and art education, as well as in preparation for a museum visit.
• Registered companions of severely disabled visitors
• Journalists with a currently valid press pass
• Tour group leaders and tour guides with professional ID (maximum one person per 25 paying participants), as well as the bus drivers of the travel companies if they participate directly in the museum visit.
• Members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
• Holders of the Bayerische Ehrenamtskarte
• Friends and members of associations promoting the relevant museums and collections, and of the “Friends of the MPZ e.V.” association
• Employees of the Museumspädagogische Zentrum (MPZ)
• Recipients of the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Bavarian Medals for Life Saving, the Bavarian Order of Maximilian for Science and Art (in each case upon presentation of the order’s identity card)
• Elected officials and members of the diplomatic service