The collection at the Jewish Museum shows visitors the history, life and culture of the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria. It is located in St. Jakobsplatz near Marienplatz and Viktualienmarkt. The Jewish Museum is part of Jewish Community Center that serves the 9,200 Jews living in the city.
The idea of a Jewish Museum in Munich was conceived in the 1920s by Hans Lamm, head of the Jewish community at that time. He started the project but could not realize his dream. A small private museum was opened by Richard Grimm on Maximilianstrasse. It ran at the venue for 10 years but was closed for financial reasons. The present Jewish Museum opened its doors in 2007.
Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch designed the building, that houses the Jewish Museum, after winning a competition held in 2001. It is designed as a free standing cube with a glass walled ground floor entrance. Exhibits relating to Jewish life and culture, festivals celebrated by the Jews, their rites of passage, like marriages and funerals, are arranged in the three exhibition halls. Temporary exhibitions, relating to subjects like the holocaust, are also held from time to time. The Museum stays open all week from 10 am to 6 pm except on Mondays.

Münchner Stadtmuseum or the Municipal Museum provides visitors with an overview of Munich's history and its citizens' lifestyle. Regular exhibitions are held on the popular arts and traditions of the region. A wooden model of Munich city as it was in 1572 is one of the interesting exhibits. An exhibition on Morris dancers forms the main display on the ground floor. The second floor houses an exhibition on the camera and the fourth floor has an extensive collection of musical instruments.

This unique Toy Museum occupies four floors of the tower of the Old Town Hall of Munich. Dolls and toys from around the world are on display.
The Toy Museum houses the collection of Czech writer, cartoonist and film maker, Ivan Steiger and his wife Eva. He opened the museum to the public in 1983. Mechanical toys are displayed in such a manner that visitors can see the intricate mechanism that goes into their creation. A spiral stone staircase leads visitors to the museum where dolls are arranged according to type on different floors.
Collections at the Toy Museum include the earliest teddy bears, made by renowned doll maker Margaret Steiff, and the pretty china doll creations of another well known doll maker, Käthe Kruse. Most of the dolls are second-hand and were the precious belongings of a child at some time in the past. One can view X rays of the inside of the doll to see how it was put together. Other floors have displays of mechanical cars, trains and merry go rounds. A notable mechanical toy is the antique French laufpuppe that dates back to 1855. One can view the complex mechanism that enables the toy to move its arms and legs and talk. The Toy museum also has an impressive collection of each and every outfit made to clothe Barbie dolls from the date of the creation of this iconic doll.

The Beer and Oktoberfest Museum is dedicated to Bavaria’s rich beer culture and the history of Munich’s Oktoberfest. It is a privately owned museum run by the Edith-Haberland-Wagner Foundation. The foundation now owns the beer brand called Augustiner Bräu, once the specialty of monks of the Augustinian order.
The Beer and Oktoberfest Museum is housed in Munich’s oldest residence. The six storey building dates back to 1340 and was built soon after the great fire of 1327 that razed large parts of the city to the ground. The façade paintings have been restored and the original wooden beams have been salvaged. The building consists of 12 apartments and a steep central, ’Heaven’s Stairs’, a typical feature of medieval houses in Munich takes visitors to the upper floors.
The exhibits at the museum take visitors through the history of beer brewing around the world. One can view exhibits about beer brewing in ancient Egypt to the purity laws when it was brewed by Bavarian monks. The history of Munich’s six breweries is also displayed through the exhibits. A wooden box called the brewer’s ark that was used in the Munich Brewer’s initiation ceremony is a treasured object in the museum. The upper floor is dedicated to the history and evolution of the Oktoberfest that began as the wedding celebration of King Ludwig I in 1810 and grew to be the largest beer festival in the world.

The Deutsches Museum is the largest science and technology museum in the world. It has over 28,000 exhibits, some of them interactive, from 50 disciplines of science and technology.
The Deutsches Museum is located on an island of the Isar River called Museumsinsel (Museum Island). In the medieval era, the island was used for rafting wood. A barracks was built in the year 1775. Efforts were made by the Association of German Engineers under the initiative of electrical engineer, Oskar von Miller to set up a science and technology museum. The city decided to donate the island as the site for the museum in 1903. The building was severely damaged and many exhibits destroyed during the World War II bombardment of the city and carefully restored after the war.
Exhibits at the Deutsches Museum cover German technological innovations from the printing press to the airplane. Notable exhibits are the Gutenberg printing press, the first Siemens Dynamo engine, the bench that saw the first splitting of the atom and an 1886 model of the Mercedes Benz. Among the interactive exhibits for children are electricity displays that produce real lightning. English speaking guides are employed by the museum to take visitors around and explain the exhibits.

The Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde (State Museum of Ethnology) located on Maximilianstrasse in Munich displays non European folk art from around the world. It is the second largest museum in Germany.
The Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde is housed in a building that was originally intended for the Bavarian National Museum. It was designed by Eduard Riedel in the Perpendicular English Gothic architectural style and built between the years 1859 and 1865. The first exhibits were those collected by the Wittelsbach Royal family who ruled Bavaria for over 600 years. King Ludwig I purchased a large collection of objects from India and Oceania in 1830. From 1868, the exhibits were placed in the museum’s present facility. It covers an area of 12,000 square meters and the collection of over 200,000 objects is displayed in halls covering 4,500 square meters.
The first floor of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde has objects of cultural value and artifacts from the Islamic world, India, East Asia and Oceania. The vast collection of objects from Africa and the Americas are displayed in the 2nd floor. The oldest surviving North American kayaks are on display here. The museum also has its own restoration workshops, conference facilities and a popular museum café.

The Bavarian National Museum was established by King Maximilian II in 1855. It displays objects relating to the art and cultural history of Bavaria.
The Bavarian National Museum was originally housed in the building that is now, the State Museum of Ethnology. The present building was designed by Gabriel von Seidl in historicist style and is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of museum architecture. Exhibits in the museum consist of Bavarian artifacts from late antiquity to the early 20th century. They are displayed in two major sections, the historical section and the folklore section.
The historical section has exhibits chronologically displayed in 40 rooms from the late antiquity hall to the Art Nouveau hall. Most of the objects are those collected by members of the Royal House of Wittelsbach. Exhibits include ivory reliefs, gold artifacts, textiles, glass, paintings, tapestry, shrines, musical instruments, clocks and artifacts made of porcelain. The Folklore section consists of furniture, rural pottery, woodcarvings depicting street scenes and nativity scenes and the world’s most valuable crib image collection. The 18th century French costume and accessory collection was bequeathed to the museum by Lillian Williams of America and the western wing has the valuable Bollert Collection of late medieval sculptures on display.

The German Theater Museum is dedicated to the history of theater in Germany with a special focus on Bavaria and Munich. The Museum’s collection is displayed through themed exhibitions that keep changing periodically.
The first permanent exhibits of German Theater Museum were the private collection of actress Clara Ziegler. The museum opened in her villa near the English Garden in 1910, one year after her death. The building was badly damaged during the World War II bombardments. The collection was moved for safe keeping and survived the ravages of war. In 1953, a new Museum was opened in the Old Electoral Gallery that dates back to 1781.
Exhibits at the German Theater Museum include portraits of well known German actors and actresses, stage props, costumes, photographs and theater masks. It also has an impressive document collection consisting of blueprints of theater building plans, stage set sketches, costume designs, manuscripts, production scripts, reviews, sound recordings and letters. The library has over 80,000 documents including music scores, librettos, theater journals and works of secondary literature. The Münchner Spielplan or Munich Repertoire is a unique service offered by the museum. It provides information of performances currently taking place in all the theaters in the city.