English-language tours through museums
Although we regularly praise Munich’s museums and their exhibitions, very few of these institutions offer guided tours in English. The Münchner Volkshochschule — the city’s community school, which has offered excellent German-language tours of the city’s major museums for years — is stepping up its efforts to pick up the slack. On request, the school will now organize English-language tours of the Alte and the Neue Pinakothek, the Ethnological Museum (Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde) and the Museum Villa Stuck. Artist Franz von Stuck’s remarkable Jugendstil villa, a surprisingly under-visited city gem, features turn-of-the-century German works and changing exhibitions of mostly contemporary art. A guided tour of any of the four museums costs DM 200 for a maximum of 25 people and is about 90 minutes in duration. Tours should be booked at least two weeks in advance. For further information, contact Christiane Haberl, Münchner VHS, Fachgebiet Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Postfach 80 11 64, 81611 Munich, Tel. 480 06 23-0. <<< KA