Munich Highlights

A tour of Dachau - I think everyone should see a concentration camp - along with a Third Reich Tour

The Residenz and Hofbräuhaus

Nymphenburg Palace. An easy 10 minute tram ride from Central station.

Here is a good guide for a weekend in Munich.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/43ec0db77740a073

Nymphenburg Palace is fantastic, especially if the weather is pleasant. You can reach it via an easy tram ride. The grounds are extensive, and the small buildings located throughout are unique and interesting. I much preferred Nymphenburg to the Residenz because I prefer the outdoors to fancy interiors. At the Residenz, the rooms started to bleed together after awhile.

The best day trip I took from Munich was to Herrsching am Ammersee. We took a stroll along the lake and then hiked up to Andechs Monastery. There are great views from the monastery. Plus, they brew their own beer and have a nice beerhall/garden. My husband still drools over the pork knuckle he had there. There is a minigolf place near the monastery. After a liter of beer, my golf game was pretty poor, but it was lots of fun.

One day, it rained quite a bit, so the river current was strong in Munich's English Gardens. We watched several surfers take turns riding the waves. It was a really cool experience.

In addition to Nymphenburg Palace, which several people mentioned, I'd add something relatively simple: a visit to the English Gardens (https://www.muenchen.de/en/sights/attractions/english-garden). The gardens are not just another city park: I'd rate them and Amsterdam's Vondel Park as the best in Europe. The gardens are so large, I once got lost in them. Perhaps unsurprisingly for Munich, the gardens have the best beer garden in Europe. The pagoda is an interesting bit of cross-cultural appreciation: https://www.munichbeergardens.com/Chinesischer_Turm

Agree with what's been said here. Nymphenburg Palace, the Residenz, (I think it's worth seeing both), and the Englischer Gardens. If you go to Nymphenburg, be sure to visit the four "mini-palaces" scattered about the grounds, and not just the main palace.

I drive a BMW, so their museum was a highlight for me. Otherwise the English Garden was my number one.

I absolutely love Munich, but the "tourist sites" have little to do with why. It's just a lovely, relaxing place. And I love German food and German beer, which helps.

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Here’s an earlier post of mine with my favorite things to do in Munich.
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The link within this link is helpful, too.
Munich is a great place to thrift shop and browse flea markets. If that interests anyone, I’ll post more about that.

https://community.ricksteves.com/users/931979/posts#:~:text=25%2008:56-,AM

Sorry, here’s the link.

I loved my tours. There are several walking tour companies but I took the Munich walk and the Beer and Brewery walk from Radius Tours and both were excellent. They gave me a better understanding about the layout and history behind Munich and the history of beer in the city and of Oktoberfest.

The Englischer Garten is a must. Rent a bike or just walking around, it's one of the prettiest parks I've seen and in spring it's just glorious.

I like art museums and am a Albrecht Dürer fan so the Alte Pinakothek was a must. Lots of old masters and delightful paintings. And seeing Durer's self portrait there was my highlight. Something about his gaze and pose.

Of course, the biggie is Dachau. I'd forget the organized tour as it's easy to get to Dachau and the camp by yourself-just follow the crowd. Go to the memorial website and check when the official tours start. We had a wonderful 3 hour tour with an Austrian guide who had actually met some of the last survivors of the camp. Her experiences and talks with him made the whole experience come alive.

Brewery tour-A scheduling conflict happened for me but I'd recommend the Weihenstephaner Brewery tour. It's in a cute town Freising that is walkable on its own and the Brewery is located at the University. It's all very hi-tech now but the tasting is good and you even get a cute little glass souvenir.

Munich is my favorite big city in Germany so just taking the trams and looking at the different neighborhoods was a highlight for me If . If I ever win the Powerball lottery and can retire in style, I'd move to Munich in a heartbeat.

a visit to the biergartens - Augustiner, The Chinese Tower at the English Garden, one or two others, then a trip to Salzburg for their excellent Augustiner. Catch Andechs on the way back the long way.

and some of the museums, and if close by a pop into the Hofbräuhaus

We loved doing the free Rick Steves audio tour. Just download his app. Took us to places we never would have discovered on our own.

Depending on what days you come, check out the musuems. For example, there is an Egyptian one that charges just 1 euro on Sunday:
The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst is an archaeological museum in Munich. It contains the Bavarian state collection of ancient Egyptian art and displays exhibits from both the predynastic and dynastic periods.
Some others are free on certain days and others are free all the time. Below is a great small museum:

The Bavarian State Collection of Paleontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) is a center for documenting and researching the evolutionary history and diversity of life on Earth, the interrelationships between organisms and with the Earth system, and the geological foundations. In Bavaria, it is the state institution responsible for fossil finds and rocks.