The Pinakothek of Modern Arts in the Barerstreet in the district Maxvorstadt is one of the worldwide biggest houses for art of the 20th and 21st century. It domiciles four autonomous museums with a exhibition space of 12000 qm that show the visitors different sectors of art by a worldwide unique constellation.

- The collection of modern arts (as component of the Bavarian national painting collection)

- The new Collection (the national museum for applied arts)

- The architectural museum of the Technical University of Munich as well as

- The national graphic collection

The voluminous offer is complemented with changing exhibitions and events from different cultural sectors.

Together with the Old and the New Pinakothek, the museum Brandhorst and the collection of antiques of the Glyptothek and the civic gallery in the Lenbachhaus, the Pinakothek of Modern Arts builds the area of art in munich and should be visited because of its architectural construction. The collection of modern arts consists of art works of the classic modern as well as the contemporary art. Modern forms of art - like the expressionism, the fauvism, the cubism, new sobriety, the Bauhaus, surrealism, abstract expressionism, pop art and minimal art – are represented by their protagonists – like Beckmann, Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, Klee, Margritte, Picasso, Bacon, Baseitz, Beuys, Judd, de Koonig, Polke, Twombly and Warhol.

The national graphic collection munich consists of 400000 sheets of all eras of the art of drawing and arts of prints from the 15th century to the modernity and is despite the severe loosing during World War II one of the leading houses of treasures for graphic art worldwide. Collection from the Wittelsbacher like the etching- and paintings-cabinet of the elector Karl Theodor can be found here. In their exhibition area in the first floor there are permanent changing exhibitions – because of the photosensitivity of the pieces - with works on paper from the house-own inventories as well as loan collections are shown. Old German and Dutch paintings and arts of prints like pieces from Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt, Italian paintings from Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, German paintings of the 19th century and international graphics of the modern art like Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and David Hockney can be admired here.

The new collection was the first design museum long before the word even existed and is on of the leading design museums all over the world. Generated out of the foundation of the Deutschen Werkbundes (German Work Federation) 1907 in Munich and established as a national museum since 1925. Its permanent exhibition for the first time shows the history and development of the designs and the applied arts from 1900 to the present. It is one of the international leading museums for applied arts of the modernity – for industrial design it is even the world wide most connotatively one. Particularly shown are inventories to the topics car design, computer culture, designs of adornments, every day objects and furniture like the Thonet-Collection.

The collection of the architectural museum of the TU Munich is the biggest of her kind in Germany and finally found its own place in the Pinakothek of modern arts. The exhibitions want to arouse the interest of all groups of visitors for architecture and establish understanding for architecture. Paintings, blueprint and models of well known architects like Johann Balthasar Neumann, François de Cuvilliés, Gottfried Semper, Le Corbusier or Günter Behnisch are shown too. These demonstrations are supported by computer animations and movies.