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design and several of the buildings, including the
Leuchtenberg-Palais
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(to Odeonsplatz)
, a stately town palace modelled after a Roman palazzo and
now home of the Bavarian Finance Ministry. There are several nice, if pricey, cafes, in-
which has a pedigree going back more than 200 years and used to be popular with Mu-
nich's high society.
Feldherrnhalle
(Field Marshalls Hall; Residenzstrasse 1; Odeonsplatz)
Corking up Odeonsplatz's
south side is Friedrich von Gärnter's Feldherrnhalle, modelled on the Loggia dei Lanzi in
Florence. It honours the Bavarian army and positively drips with testosterone; check out
the statues of General Johann Tilly, who kicked the Swedes out of Munich during the
Thirty Years' War; and Karl Phillip von Wrede, an ally turned foe of Napoleon.
It was here on 9 November 1923 that police stopped the so-called Beer Hall Putsch,
Hitler's attempt to bring down the Weimar Republic. A fierce skirmish left 20 people, in-
cluding 16 Nazis, dead. A plaque in the pavement of the square's eastern side commemor-
ates the police officers who perished in the incident.
Hitler was subsequently tried and sentenced to five years in jail, but ended up serving a
mere nine months, during which he penned his hate-filled manifesto
Mein Kampf
.
HISTORIC BUILDING
MUNICH'S MUSEUMS
Munich has almost 50 museums, some so vast and containing so many exhibits you could spend a
whole day shuffling through a single institution. Gallery fatigue strikes many a visitor and it's
easy to get your
pinakotheks
in a twist. Here we list Munich's best museums - be selective and
take your time.
Best For...
»
Curious kids
KinderReich at the Deutsches Museum (
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)
»
Petrol heads
BMW Welt (
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)
»
Tech heads
Deutsches Museum (
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)
»
Design devotees
Pinakothek der Moderne (
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)
»
Dino hunters
Paläontologisches Museum (
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)
