State Museum of Egyptian Art
The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst is an archaeological museum in Munich that preserves Bavaria’s state collection of ancient Egyptian art—spanning both predynastic and dynastic periods. Its story begins long before today’s galleries: the Bavarian state collection was founded in the 16th century by Duke Albrecht V, then expanded notably under Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and King Ludwig I. For decades, the museum was housed in the Munich Residenz, before moving to the Kunstareal in June 2013. Since then, you enter a new subterranean space—designed by architect Peter Böhm—conceived opposite the Alte Pinakothek and even reaching underneath the new building for the University of Television and Film Munich. …
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