Welcome to the Long Night of Munich Museums
For the 26th time, Munich will morph into a nocturnal landscape of discovery: more than 100 museums and cultural venues are inviting you to come along on a journey through art, history, science, and surprising perspectives. Boundaries? There are none. The program is as expansive as the city itself. Those who open themselves up to it will experience Munich in a new way. Whether it's contemporary works at the Museum Brandhorst or immersive illusions at the WOW Museum – here, everyone can find their own way to discover art. At the Museum Fünf Kontinente (Five Continents), international perspectives turn visitors into citizens of the world. The Münchner Stadtmuseum (Munich City Museum), on the other hand, sheds new light on the city's local history. In addition to classic museums, less common sites will also morph into stages for culture: a bakery at the Sammlung (Collection) Café Luitpold , guest rooms at the Hotel Mariandl, and the Müller'sche Volksbad will be reshaping the edge of its swimming pool into a stage. At the LMU, the university library will also be turned into a cultural space, and the Rolling Museum will be taking vintage cars on tour.
Sea Life will attract visitors with colorful coral reefs and the largest variety of sharks in Germany, while the Alpine Museum will feature impressive mountain and climate exhibitions. Prehistoric finds await you in the Archäologischen Staatssammlung (State Archaeological Collection), while the telescopes at the Bayerische Volkssternwarte (Bavarian Public Observatory) will open up a panorama of space – the scope of this night ranges from underwater worlds to high mountain panoramas, from the earth's crust to the stars.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to all participating venues and partners for their creativity and commitment, as well as to MVG for providing the shuttle buses. We wish you a long night full of discoveries – varied, inspiring, and boundless.
Your Team from Münchner Kultur GmbH
This year‘s motif, by the way, comes from the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum) – you can find more details here.
GREETING FROM THE MINISTER
Once a year, the night belongs to the curious, the strollers, the inquisitive: For the 26th time, the Long Night of Munich Museums is inviting all culture enthusiasts to discover the city and its cultural treasures – by moonlight. This year, around 100 museums, galleries, and collections will once again present cultural treasures that preserve history but also provide a touchstone to the present.
This year's motif for the Long Night is a prime example of this: the Rococo dancer from the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum) is a symbol of the splendor of courtly art more than 200 years ago. Her delicate design still inspires us today. Or the letters, portraits, and documents of Max I Joseph in the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Bavarian Central State Archive), which tell of the king's commitment to his daughters' education. At the German Theater Museum, props, designs, and models will bring the elaborate preparations for a Shakespearean production at the Residenztheater to life. And finally, ancient sculptures – within reach and surrounded by music – at the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke (Museum of Casts of Classical Sculptures) and in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen (State Collections of Antiquities) take us on an impressive journey back to the origins of European art. Visitors to the Long Night can thus take a stroll through the cultural heritage of the state capital – from the courtly dessert table to archival family histories to living antiquity. It will be a nocturnal quest that will both excite and inspire!
I would therefore like to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone involved who has once again made this cultural highlight possible – with dedication, creativity, and energy beyond the usual opening hours. Thanks to you, Munich experiences a magical night full of wonder and discovery!
Munich, October 2025
Markus Blume, MdL, Bayerischer Staatsminister für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Bavarian Minister for Science and the Arts)
GREETING FROM THE LORD MAYOR
Culture never sleeps in Munich, especially not during the Long Night of Munich Museums, when the lights come on and the doors to our cultural sites remain open – long after sunset. This nocturnal tour of museums, collections, and historical sites is an invitation that thousands of visitors enthusiastically accept every year. There will be much to discover again this year, especially at sites that blend the new with the tried and true. The Museum Villa Stuck is reopening its doors after extensive renovations: the artists' house, a total artwork in-and-of-itself, encounters contemporary positions from pop, performance, and painting. The NS Documentation Center, which reopened in May after renovations, offers hourly tours and prompts for discussing education in historical and active democracy. The MVG Museum features vehicles and artifacts from more than 100 years of Munich mobility – technological history to marvel at and touch. In the Munich Fire Department exhibition, which has also been redesigned, technology and operational history come to life through numerous historical fire engines and modern equipment.
Thanks to the tried-and-tested MVG shuttle buses, which link up all the venues, you will be able to experience the entire city as one huge night-time museum. My thanks go to Münchner Kultur GmbH for their dedicated organizational work and to all participating institutions for their creativity. With this offer and many other highlights, the 26th edition of the Long Night of Munich Museums promises to be another truly unique cultural experience. I wish all night owls lots of fun and enjoyable discoveries!
Dieter Reiter, Oberbürgermeister der Landeshauptstadt München (Lord Mayor of the Bavarian State Capital Munich)