When the first spring flowers sprout from the earth and mild spring air blows through Munich's streets, Easter is just around the corner. High time to plan your Easter holiday in Munich. These are the best Easter tips for 2024!
Classical concerts in Munich's most beautiful theatres, modern ballet performances and exciting activities for children - that's what the 2024 Easter weekend in Munich has to offer!
Holiday activities for children during the Easter holidays
Events on Good Friday 2004
Events during the Easter weekend and Easter Sunday 2024
Events on Easter Monday 2024
Open over Easter: Exhibitions at Munich museums
City walking, strolling and sunbathing
Why do we actually celebrate Easter? A palm donkey and pictures of the events in Jerusalem, but also Mary Magdalene, Peter and a rooster can provide information. In this family activity, children aged 6 and over learn about the traditions of Holy Week and create an Easter candle as a sign of light and resurrection.
When: 24 March 2024, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm
Where: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Informations & tickets: Registration required at 089 21124-317
... I'll give you an Easter egg! Because the colourful egg is the most typical gift at Easter, some of them will be dyed during this holiday activity. There will also be information and stories about other Easter traditions. For children aged 6 and over - please bring a snack.
When: 26 March 2024, 10 am to 1 pm
Where: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Informations & tickets: Registration required at 089 21124-317
Whether serious, terrifying, with funny faces or laughing ... In four museums, children aged 9 and over will encounter heads and faces - strange hybrid creatures, strict-looking rulers with luxuriant curls and brightly coloured portraits. They can also invent their own heads by drawing, printing and moulding them! Please bring a snack.
When: 27 March 2024, 10 am to 5 pm
Where: various museums
Informations & tickets: www.mpz-bayern.de
On this guided tour, children learn all about old traditions such as lighting the Easter fire or blessing the Easter water.
When: 31 March 2024, 3 to 4 pm
Where: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Informations & tickets: www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de
Admire selected BMW models in the event area and get creative yourself. That`s what children and adults can do during the Easter holidays at BMW Welt.
When: 23 March to 7. April 2024
Where: BMW Welt
Informations & tickets: www.bmw-welt.com
Bach's St Matthew Passion is a wonderful way to ring in the Easter holidays. Hardly any work in the history of music still captivates listeners as much as Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion. The message of the work is both stirring and comforting. The composition was probably first heard in 1727 at the Good Friday Vespers in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. The annual performance has already been cultivated as a firm tradition in Munich's concert life for several years. This year, the St Matthew Passion will take place on Good Friday at 2 pm and at 7 pm in the Isarphilharmonie!
When: 29 March 2024, 2 pm and 7 pm
Where: Isarphilharmonie
Information & tickets: www.muenchenticket.de
Some 300 years after its premiere in Leipzig in 1724, Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion is still one of the most moving and at the same time dramaturgically effective works in music history. The Gospel account of Christ's suffering and death is here transformed into a tragedy full of pain and baroque colourfulness. Hardly any listener can escape this composition with its almost magical effect. On Good Friday, the play will be performed under the direction of Thomas Gropper in the Herkulessaal in the Residenz.
When: 29 March 2024, 7 pm
Wo: Herkulessaal in the Residenz
Infos und Tickets: www.muenchenmusik.de
A musical journey through time will take place in the historically important Court Chapel in Munich's Residenz on Good Friday. Joseph Haydn's “The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross“, a meditation music in the version for string quartet, will be performed. Haydn's Passion cycle for orchestra or string quartet overwhelmed contemporaries and still gives today's audiences the impression that the seven words of Jesus on the cross recorded in the Gospels are “true and solemn“.
When: 29 March 2024, 6 pm
Where: Residenz
Information & tickets: www.bavaria-klassik.de
Experience pure circus enjoyment with brilliant artistic performances and circus highlights with 32 artists from ten nations. Celebrated world stars and award-winning newcomers, many magnificent animals and amusing entertainers welcome you live in the circus ring at Circus Krone. But the animals take centre stage – the true “stars of the circus ring“. Look forward to amazement, lots of laughter and pure thrills.
When: 30 March 2024 at 3 pm and 7.30 pm, 31 March & 1 April 2024 at 2.30 pm and 6.30 pm
Where: Circus Krone Bau
Information and tickets: www.circus-krone.com
If you're already in the mood for a short break in Munich during the Easter holidays, book our “Munich for Explorers“ travel package with two nights' accommodation and a 3-day Munich City Pass with free admission to 45 Munich sights. We look forward to your visit!
On Easter weekend and Easter Monday, guests at the Prinzregententheater can enjoy a performance by the Bundesjugendballett. The dance company was founded in 2011 by the world-famous choreographer John Neumeier and is based in Hamburg. The group's motto is “Dance is the hidden language of the soul“ – and this does not always have to take place on a stage. The Bundesjugendballett has also danced in unusual places such as a swimming pool or in prison. For two years, eight talented young dancers aged between 18 and 23 are now working in the ensemble at the Prinzregententheater.
When: 30 March 2024 & 31 March 2024 both at 7 pm, 1 April 2024 at 3 pm
Where: Prinzregententheater
Information and tickets: www.muenchenmusik.de
The Munich Marionette Theatre has a great idea for the Easter weekend: on Easter Saturday, it has two plays in its programme – “The Fantastic Journey of Korbinian Fox“ for the little ones in the afternoon and “Don Giovanni“ for teenagers and adults in the evening. The programme continues on Monday with the children's musical “Tabaluga“. The puppet theatre in Munich city centre is the oldest non-mobile puppet theatre in Germany. Worth a trip for young and old!
When: 30 March 2024 at 3 pm & 8 pm, 1 April 2024 at 4 pm
Where: Munich Marionette Theatre
Info and tickets: www.muenchenticket.de
Beethoven's ninth symphony was already considered unique at the time of its composition due to its grandiose choral finale – and still is. Experience Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125 with final chorus on Schiller's ode “An die Freude“ with the Munich Symphony Orchestra on Easter Monday under the direction of Dirk Kraftan at the Isarphilharmonie.
When: 1 April 2024, 3.30 pm
Where: Isarphilharmonie
Information & tickets: www.muenchenmusik.de
The renowned Residenz Soloists perform in the Hubertus Hall of Schloss Nymphenburg, where the fairytale King Ludwig II was born and spent his childhood. Well-known classical masterpieces by Mozart, Strauss and Rossini will be performed.
When: 1 April 2024, 7.30 pm
Where: Hubertussaal Nymphenburg Palace
Information & tickets: www.bavaria-klassik.de
A visit to the opera is perfect for the long Easter weekend: Il Trittico, which translates as “The Triptych“, will be performed at the Nationaltheater on Easter Monday. As the name suggests, three operas will be performed in one evening – l tabarro (The Cloak), Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) and Gianni Schicchi – accompanied by the composer Giacomo Puccini. In between, there will be a long break for a snack at the bar or refreshments.
When: 1 April 2024, 5 pm
Where: Nationaltheater
Information & tickets: www.staatsoper.de
The traditional Easter market in Bad Tölz, which is around 50 km south of Munich, takes place every year against the picturesque backdrop of Marktstrasse and heralds the arrival of spring with its very special atmosphere. Around 30 huts offer handicrafts and delicacies from the Oberland and children can colour in the children's pavilion and make beautiful souvenirs to take home.
When: 22 March to 1 April 2024, closed on Good Friday
Where: Marktstraße Bad Tölz
Information: www.bad-toelz.de
At the top of the list for families with children at Easter is, of course, the Easter egg hunt. But what to do when all the Easter nests and Easter bunnies have been found? Here we have collected a few tips and ideas for Easter activities – from visiting exhibitions to spring walks to city tours and the first beer garden visit of the year.
“This Is Me, This Is You“ brings together renowned positions in the history of photography from Robert Frank to Isaac Julien and Zoe Leonard. For the first time, the exhibition gives the public an insight into an internationally significant photo collection that has grown over four decades. The generous donation of the Eva Felten photo collection expands the Museums Brandhorst's holdings by 429 works by more than 140 artists from the 1930s to the present day.
Where: Museum Brandhorst
When: until 7 April 2024
Information: www.museum-brandhorst.de
The exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne is the first to focus on bicycle design. On display are 70 examples of some of the most unusual and exciting bicycles in the history of design. The numerous designs by aeroplane and automobile engineers such as Paul Jaray, Hermann Klaue and Alex Moulton as well as industrial designers including Luigi Colani, Richard Sapper, Michael Conrad, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Marc Newson, Christian Zanzotti and Ross Lovegrove prove that bicycle design is not just the art of craftsmanship and frame building, but also the work of ingenious inventors, tinkerers, obsessives and enthusiasts.
Where: Pinakothek der Moderne
When: until 22 September 2024, daily (except Mondays) from 10 am to 6 pm, Thursdays until 8 pm
Information: www.pinakothek-der-moderne.de
The Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (Bavarian National Museum) on Prinzregentenstrasse is one of the great museums of art and cultural history in Europe. In a varied tour, visitors can discover the Western art epochs from late antiquity to Art Nouveau. In addition to masterpieces of sculpture and painting, ivory and goldsmith's work, ceremonial clocks, tapestries, furniture, weapons and exquisite porcelain are on display. On Sundays, admission is heavily discounted and costs just one euro.
Where: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
When: 29, 30 and 31 March 2024
Information: www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de
You can find more exhibitions in our overview for 2024 and on muenchen.de
The temperature on the thermometer is rising and with it the desire to roam Munich's parks, gardens and neighbourhoods on foot or by bike. Eleven good ideas for things to do, from the best ice cream parlours to excursions into the Munich countryside, can be found here. For sun lovers, we have put together the sunniest spots in Munich city centre to head for while sightseeing.
In the beer garden guide you will find everything you need to know about your visit to the beer garden and in the beer garden typology we explain to you who is out and about there.
And if you want to get to know Munich on a city walk, you can do it on your own. You can find an experience report with the individual stages here.
Or would you like to get to know a single Munich district better? On one of our Local Love tours, our guides will show you the most beautiful and interesting corners throughout the city. We look forward to your visit!
