Museum in Munich
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The Deutsches Museum is one of the largest and most important science and technology museums in the world, housed on an island in the Isar River. Entry is paid. The collection includes original aircraft, submarines, mining tunnels you can walk through, a planetarium, and hands-on physics experiments. Budget travelers pay the ticket and spend half a day (or more) in a museum that makes science tangible. The mining tunnel and the aerospace hall alone are worth the visit.
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Leo von Klenze custom-designed one hall in the Alte Pinakothek to be tall enough to hang Rubens's Last Judgment, which stands over 6 meters. The museum holds 72 Rubens paintings, the largest permanent collection of his work anywhere in the world, which gives a sense of the scale of the Wittelsbach collecting ambition.
The Asamkirche (St Johann Nepomuk) is a tiny Baroque church on Sendlinger Strasse, built by the Asam brothers as their private chapel. Free to enter.
Dachau opened on March 22, 1933, barely seven weeks after the Nazi seizure of power, making it the first concentration camp in the Third Reich and the administrative model for every camp that followed.
Standing wave on the Eisbach river at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, where surfers ride year-round. One of Munich's most photographed spectacles. The wave is fast and only for experienced surfers, but watching from the bridge is free entertainment.
One of the world's largest urban parks, larger than Central Park and Hyde Park. The Eisbachwelle (river surfing wave) at the southern entrance, the Chinesischer Turm beer garden, and the Monopteros temple viewpoint are the anchor spots. The park runs for 5 kilometers along the Isar river. Free, open, and central to Munich life.
The Hofbrauhaus is Munich's most famous beer hall, a cavernous room of long wooden tables, brass bands, and one-liter Masskrug steins. Free to enter.
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