Event period : Runs until 09/28/2025

4 Museums – 1 Modernism

A joint exhibition of all four museums in the Pinakothek der Moderne on the occasion of 100 years Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum
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About the Exhibition

The upheaval that culminated in Modernism and the beginnings of Die Neue Sammlung, Germany’s first state design museum, are closely connected. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its foundation, a joint exhibition by the four museums that form the Pinakothek der Moderne will showcase a selection of highlights of Modernism from the museum collec-tions. The era will be presented from the 1910s to the 1930s, and across the different artistic and design disciplines.

In times of great political instability and rapid social and technological change, one of the most important aesthetic epochs gained sway. With its radical form of abstraction and unadorned realism, artistic and functional matter-of-factness, artisanal and exclusive design, it emphatically changed our view of humans and the world.

The exhibition ground plan resembles a figure 4 and refers to the four museums that make up Pinakothek der Moderne as well as to the four thematic areas New Aesthetics, New Materials and Techniques, New Institutions and New Society in which the exhibits of the four institutions dovetail with one another.

Additional to the exhibition further objects of Modernity have been marked in the rooms of Die Neue Sammlung and Sammlung Moderne Kunst.

Architecture design: Martin Kinzlmaier
Motorcycle from 1926, white-painted
Motorcycle “Weiße Mars”, 1926. Design: Claus Franzenburg. Manufacturer: Mars-Werke
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung (A. Laurenzo)
Post office building on Goetheplatz, Munich,
Robert Vorhoelzer, Walther Schmidt, Franz Holzhammer, post office building on Goetheplatz, Munich, 1931-1932
Photo: Architekturmuseum der TUM
Self-portrait from Jankel Adler, drawing
Jankel Adler, Untitled (Self-portrait), 1920s
Photo: Staatliche Grafische Sammlung München
Painting from Walter Dexel, 1922, depicting a plane
Walter Dexel, Flugzeug, 1922
Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Haydar Koyupinar), VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2025

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  • Daily 10:00 – 18:00

  • Monday closed

  • Thursday 10:00 – 20:00

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A visit to the Pinakothek der Moderne costs
regular 10 Euro
reduced admission 7 Euro
Sunday admission 1 Euro

Children and young people under the age of 18 have free admission.
We cooperate with Kulturraum München.

You can buy a ticket at the ticket office on site or online. You can find more information on the Pinakothek der Moderne website.

You can find an overview of accessibility at the Pinakothek der Moderne on the Kultur barrierefrei München website.
The design museum also offers an inclusive touch station in the X-D-E-P-O-T, which everyone can explore independently.

We provide an overview of what is going on at Die Neue Sammlung under programme. You can find out everything about guided tours and group bookings on the Pinakothek der Moderne website.

  • Curated by:

    Simone Förster (BStGS / Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde), Michael Hering (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München), Ludwig Kallweit (Die Neue Sammlung), Oliver Kase (BStGS / Sammlung Moderne Kunst), Irene Meissner (Architekturmuseum der TUM), Angelika Nollert (Die Neue Sammlung), Xenia Riemann-Tyroller (Die Neue Sammlung), Josef Straßer (Die Neue Sammlung)

  • Sponsored by:

    Bayerisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
    PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne
    Allianz