Munich's Museums

Today we decided to try to see a few of the local art museums. First stop was to walk to the Glyptothek museum. There were two main buildings in the courtyard. Mindy took the kids to see the first building which had an exhibition of artifacts from Ancient Greece. While she was doing this, Jon and I returned to the hotel to get his car and bring it to near the museum. His Lotus sports car was too small to fit us all, in fact, it was barely big enough for the two of us. A few quick demonstrations of its acceleration were had and it was something that I can see Jon having a lot of fun with over the years.

Meeting back with Mindy and the kids, we then went to the second building, which holds the permanent sculpture collection of the museum. The highlight for Mindy was seeing "Barberini's Faun", along with many other ancient sculptures.

Next was a walk to the Pinakothek museums, a collection of 3 museums - the Alte Pinakothek; the Neue Pinakothek and the Pinakothek der Moderne. It was decided to tackle the Pinakothek der Moderne first. After getting through some sections with bizarre furniture displays, pretty much resembling an Ikea showroom, we found the section with actual artwork on the next floor up. Paintings from Dali, Picasso, Matisse and other famous modern artists were on display.

Leaving here we decided to get lunch before Jon drove back home. Unfortunately there were no restaurants open that we could easily find and in the heat, it was becoming a struggle to get around with the kids. We found a place that looked expensive but we were sick of walking at that point so we took a chance. The food was OK but it was horribly over priced and not really a good place for the kids. We left, rounded the next corner and were confronted by about 10 restaurants, all open and all much better choices, so we learned a lesson here.

We said our farewells to Jon and then we went to the hotel to relax out of the heat. The kids were exhausted and had little trouble in getting to sleep, which is good as tomorrow we are driving to see the Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Bavaria...so it will be an early start and another full day.