Museum Brandhorst
A facade of 36,000 ceramic louvres in 23 colour glazes wraps the largest Cy Twombly collection outside the United States.
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The Brandhorst concentrates roughly 100 Warhols and 60-plus Twomblys under one roof, including the largest Cy Twombly collection outside the United States. Its centrepiece is Twombly's Lepanto, a 12-canvas cycle about a 1571 Ottoman naval battle, housed in an irregular octagonal room built around the paintings. The building itself, by Sauerbruch Hutton, sits beside the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich's Kunstareal.
What to look for
- The octagonal Lepanto room: 12 large Twombly canvases encircling you, painted around a real 1571 sea battle
- The multi-coloured facade up close — 36,000 vertical ceramic louvres across 23 different glazes
- Warhol's Mustard Race Riot (1963) and The Last Supper (1986), part of the museum's ~100-work Warhol holdings
Directly next to the Pinakothek der Moderne in the Kunstareal — both museums are walkable from each other and easy to pair in a single afternoon.
Museum Brandhorst is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Munich, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Munich pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Munich
- Allianz ArenaThe world's first stadium with a full color-changing exterior — 75,000 seats wrapped in inflated ETFE plastic panels that can change color across the entire facade.
- Deutsches Museum125,000 objects across 50 fields of science and technology — all on a former coal island in the Isar.
- Nymphenburg PalaceAt 632 metres across, this Baroque summer palace is wider than Versailles — and it started as a birth announcement.
- Alte PinakothekThe gallery that taught Europe how to build a museum — then filled it with five centuries of Old Masters.
- FrauenkircheThe twin towers top out at just over 98 meters — Munich caps the entire city at 99 m, so nothing can overtake them on the skyline.
- Englischer GartenA Massachusetts-born American Loyalist, fleeing Britain after the Revolution, drew up plans for what became one of the world's largest urban parks.