Private art tours · Munich

Guided Museum Tours in Munich.

Private guided tours led by an art historian — for individuals, couples, families and small groups. 150 € per group of up to 15.

“I can only recommend him!”Private client · Museum Brandhorst“consistently very positive feedback from the team”Corporate event · Kunsthalle München“we will gladly come back to you”Corporate event · Kunsthalle München“his expertise is impressive”Rotary Club München-Residenz“we recommend him without reservation”Rotary Club München-Residenz“thank you again for the fascinating tour”Kunstverein Winterthur · Pinakothek der Moderne“open and appreciative”Dr. Karsten Beuchert · Alte Pinakothek
“completely new perspectives on modern art”Private client · Google review“we were very satisfied”Kunstverein Winterthur · Pinakothek der Moderne“exciting and lively”Rotary Club München-Residenz“always humorous, always well informed”Private client · Google review“he truly inspired us”Edith Wardeiner · Bauhaus trip“a very knowledgeable exhibition tour”Dr. Karsten Beuchert · Alte Pinakothek“a very inspiring and instructive tour”Private client · Museum Brandhorst

Reviews translated from German · read all (in German)

Private tours

Where Munich keeps its masterpieces.

Five great collections, a few minutes apart, and more masterpieces than most capitals can offer. I show you the ones worth your afternoon — and tell you why they matter.

Gordon Prager guiding a small group through a museum

Museums and collections

Pinakothek der Moderne lettering on an exposed concrete wall
Kunstareal · Barer Straße

Pinakothek der Moderne: the art collection.

Four museums under one roof, joined by one of the most spectacular rotundas in Germany. The collection tells the twentieth century in originals: Kirchner's street scenes, Beckmann's triptychs, Picasso's transformations — then Warhol, Baselitz and the present day.

150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Design objects on display
Kunstareal · Barer Straße

Die Neue Sammlung: the world's oldest design museum.

Founded in 1907, it holds everything from Bauhaus furniture to Apple computers and a basement full of legendary cars and motorcycles. A tour about why the things around us look the way they do.

150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Gallery at Museum Brandhorst with paintings by Cy Twombly
Kunstareal · Türkenstraße

Museum Brandhorst: the present in colour.

Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly in a building that is itself a work of art: 36,000 ceramic rods in 23 colours. Inside, one of Europe's finest collections of art since 1960.

150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Gallery at the Lenbachhaus with works by the Blue Rider
Kunstareal · Luisenstraße

Lenbachhaus: the Blue Rider at home.

The largest collection of Blue Rider paintings anywhere in the world — Kandinsky, Marc, Münter, Jawlensky. The moment when European painting stopped depicting the world and started inventing it, told where it happened.

150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Kunsthalle Munich on Theatinerstrasse with the Theatine Church loading=
City centre · Theatinerstraße

Kunsthalle München: always something new.

No permanent collection, but two major exhibitions a year — often the only showing in Germany, and always worth planning a visit around. If you are in Munich for a few days, this is usually the most surprising thing on offer.

150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Tours with a theme

Walks with a clear focus, developed by me and bookable privately.

Wall of drawings and prints of male figures
Museum Brandhorst

Through other eyes. Gender, desire and identity in art.

Warhol, Twombly and others, read through the lives their work grew out of. A tour about desire, codes and what could and could not be said.

Themed tour · 150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Classical sculpture
Museum Brandhorst

Flawless: ideals of beauty.

What a society considers beautiful, and who decides. From the classical body to the retouched surfaces of contemporary art.

Themed tour · 150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh
Alte Pinakothek · „From Turner to Van Gogh“

The painting of Van Gogh.

While the Neue Pinakothek is closed for renovation, its nineteenth-century masterpieces hang in the Alte Pinakothek. A close look at Van Gogh's painting, placed within his whole body of work, alongside Gauguin and Monet.

Themed tour · 150 € per group · 90 minutes · in English

Abstract composition by Wassily Kandinsky
Lenbachhaus

Kandinsky the poet.

Kandinsky wrote as well as painted. A tour that reads his poems against his pictures — and ends with a short writing exercise of your own.

Themed tour · 150 € per group · 120 minutes · in English

Your museum is not on the list? Or you have a subject in mind that is not here? I also guide in other houses and design tours around what interests you.

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About

Gordon Prager — who I am.

Gordon Prager
Gordon Prager talking to two visitors

Training

I am an art historian based in Munich, specialising in the art and architecture of classical modernism and the present day. I studied at the universities of Göttingen and Halle-Wittenberg, at the State University of New York and at the German Center for Art History in Paris. Along the way I was awarded several scholarships, among them one from the German-American Fulbright Commission. My thesis examined cinema architecture in Berlin between Expressionism and New Objectivity.

Museums and practice

I have worked at the Kunstsammlung Göttingen, at the Museumslandschaft Hessen-Kassel, in the education department of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and in the curatorial department of the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich. That mix is what I bring to a tour: the precision of research and the habit of explaining things to people who did not come to hear a lecture.

Today I guide at the Bauhaus Dessau, the Kunsthalle München and the museums of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. I am a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), of the German Association of Art Historians and of Beruf Kunstvermittlung e.V.

  • Tours in German, English and French
  • M.A. in Art History
  • Trained in Germany, New York and Paris
  • Fulbright scholar
  • Member of ICOM
  • More than ten years of guiding
Private · Companies · Groups

Who I guide.

Gallery at Museum Brandhorst

Private

For yourself, as a couple, with family or friends. Choose a museum or theme, suggest your dates and pay online.

“A truly inspiring and instructive tour. I can only recommend it!”Private client · Museum Brandhorst
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Kunsthalle München

Companies

As a team event or for clients and guests — tailored to the current exhibition and your group.

“Consistently very positive feedback from the team — we will gladly come back to you.”Corporate event · Kunsthalle München
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Gordon Prager explaining a painting to a group

Groups & clubs

Art societies, service clubs and travel groups: tours, talks and art trips with a clear theme.

“Exciting and lively — his expertise is impressive.”Rotary Club München-Residenz
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Clients include: Rotary Club München-Residenz · Lions Club München-Marienplatz · Kunstverein Winterthur
Reviews translated from German.

Get in touch

Plan your visit.

Tell me which museum interests you, how many of you there are and when you are in Munich. I reply personally, usually within one working day. Already know which tour you want? Book and pay online.

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