This museum offers a survey of 18th- and 19th-century art, including paintings by Gainsborough, Goya, David, Manet, van Gogh, and Monet. Among the more popular German artists represented are Wilhelm Leibl and Gustav Klimt; you'll also encounter a host of others whose art is less well known. Note particularly the genre works by Carl Spitzweg, whose paintings poke gentle fun at everyday life in Munich. Across Theresienstrasse from the Alte Pinakothek, the museum was reconstructed after its destruction in World War II, then reopened in 1981.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps, 6th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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