Staatliche Antikensammlung
The Staatliche Antikensammlung is one of Munich’s major stores of classical antiquity, with a collection that spans Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. The museum you enter today occupies a building commissioned by King Ludwig I and designed by Georg Friedrich Ziebland between 1838 and 1848 in the form of a Corinthian temple. Eight columns support the portico, and the architecture is signaled in the Corinthian capitals—while the pediment centers Bavaria, and a phoenix marks the gable’s middle accent. Before becoming an antiquities museum, the same structure served shifting public purposes: it first functioned as the Kgl. Kunstausstellungsgebäude on the Königsplatz as an art-and-industry exhibition venue. From 1869 to 1872 it housed the königliche Antiquarium, and later it was taken up by the Münchener Sezession from 1898 to 1912. …
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