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Magnificently designed drafts and plans as well as theoretical works on architecture, aesthetics and the art of building by famous architects such as Vitruvius, Sebastiano Serlio or Leo von Klenze from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek’s (Bavarian State Library) holdings are presented in this bavarikon collection.

The Alte Pinakothek is a paintings gallery in Munich. It is affiliated to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Paintings Collections). The Alte Pinakothek exhibits works of European painting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

The Staatliche Antikensammlungen und die Glyptothek (State Collections of Antiquities and Sculpture Gallery) belong to the internationally leading museums for ancient art. Greek, Roman and Etruscan masterworks are presented in an architectural framework initiated by the Bavarian king Ludwig I (1786–1868, r. 1825–1848). During the years 1816 to 1830, Leo von Klenze (1784–1864) created on the northern side of the Munich Königsplatz the Glyptothek with its front-hall resting on Ionian columns. South of the square, Georg Friedrich Ziebland (1800–1873) constructed between 1838 and 1848 the building with its Corinthian façade, in which the present Antikensammlungen is housed. The ensemble was finally complemented by the Propylaea to the West of the square, which Klenze erected in the Doric order between 1846 and 1860 in accordance with the model of the classical gateway to the Athenian Acropolis (fifth century).

The Architekturmuseum (Architecture Museum) is part of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and maintains one of the largest archives in the German-speaking world for all areas of architecture. The collection currently comprises around 600,000 drawings, 200,000 photographs, 1,500 models and many other media from over 700 architects, landscape architects and photographers. These include works by Leo von Klenze, Friedrich von Gärtner, Gottfried Semper, Theodor Fischer, Hanna Löv, Richard Riemerschmid, Richard Paulick, Josef Lembrock, Sigrid Neubert, Peter Latz and Behnisch & Partner.