Munich - Bavarian National Museum Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

The Baroque sketches in oil in the Reuschel Collection can be found on the upper floor of the National Museum, with works by Januarius Zick, Joseph Anton Feichmayr and Franz Anton Maulbertsch.

The 47 ground-floor rooms of the National Museum house collections on the theme of the art and cultural history of Bavaria and the south German region, arranged chronologically from the Middle Ages to the 19th C. The art and culture of neighboring states also receives representation.

The rich art history collection includes works by Hans Multscher, Erasmus Grasser, Michael Pacher, Tilman Riemenschneider, Hans Leinberger, Georg Petel, Johann Baptist Straub, Ignaz Günther and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. In addition there are major works of European applied art. The Late Gothic and Renaissance furnishings in particular testify to the heights reached by bourgeois culture in southern Germany.

Among the highlights on the ground floor are:

The "Seeoner Madonna"

Sculptures by Tilman Riemenschneider and Hans Leinberger

Sculptures by Grasser and Polack

The Ignaz-Günther-Saal

The Landshuter-Zimmer

The Tattanbach-Kabinett

The Schwanthaler-Zimmer

Also noteworthy are the Augsburg weaver's room, the room containing the Flanders tapestries and, not least, the model towns (Straubing, Landshut, Ingolstadt and Munich, etc.).

Bavarian National Museum Upper floor: Fine manufactured ware and craftwork.

The upper floor features collections of fine manufactured ware and craftwork, some from names famous throughout the world.

Also on display are fine gold and silverwork, intarsia-work, textiles, clocks and scientific instruments.

The basement folk section of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum has interiors from peasants' houses, pottery (Alzheimer Foundation), glass, basketry, masks, costumes, carvings and religious folklore (e.g. Kriss Collection).

The Bavarian National Museum has a very large exhibit of Medieval textiles and embroideries, a large shoe collection as well as costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries.

This light-sensitive material is displayed in temporary/frequently changing exhibitions.

The National Museum in Munich possesses a celebrated collection of cribs (Nativity scenes) from Bavaria, Tyrol, Moravia, Naples, Sicily and Provence, dating from the 17th to 19th centuries.

The porcelain exhibit can be found on the upper floor of the National Museum and includes Meissen, Nymphenburg and Ansbach as well as pieces from a number of smaller manufacturers and from French potteries.

The Renaissance posters (by Meister Flötner from Nuremberg, and others) can be found on the upper floor of the National Museum.

The stained glass in the National Museum includes cycles from the Cistercian monastery at Seligenthal near Landshut. This is one of the largest collections of stained glass in Germany with examples from the 13th through the 19th centuries.