Au-Haidhausen sits just across the Isar from the old town, and it makes an easy half day out with kids. Au runs along the river below the bluff, Haidhausen has the leafy squares and cafes up top, and the riverbank paths tie the two together. This list pulls together the places and plans for kids we've checked on this side of the river.
Storytellers Gabi Altenbach and Ines Honsel turn into pastry bakers for this pre-Christmas show, baking cookies on stage while they tell winter fairy tales. The stories swing from poetic to wild: animals big and small, trolls and forest folk, wishing and cursing.
It is told in German, so it suits kids who can follow a spoken story in German. The show ends with eating the fresh cookies.
A children's theater show about Meg, a lovable, playful cat who forgets that she has just eaten, that cats can't fly, and above all her cat flap. Her memory keeps the Schmidt family in regular chaos, and one day it all goes wrong.
It suits preschoolers and young school kids who like an animal story full of mix-ups.
The Auer Dult is one of Munich's oldest traditions, a market fair that fills Mariahilfplatz in Au three times a year. The spring edition brings about 250 stalls selling pottery, antiques, toys and kitchen gadgets, plus a ride area with bumper cars, a 1919 chain swing carousel, a Ferris wheel and throwing booths. It suits kids who like a few rides and parents who like to browse.
Maximiliansanlagen is about 2 km of wooded parkland on the high east bank of the Isar. Paths run under old trees past the Friedensengel column and the Maximilianeum, with views across to the old town and down to the river's weirs.
After a snowfall, the short slopes near the Maximilianeum are one of the most central sledding spots in town, with steep runs and gentle ones for small kids.
A traditional beer garden on Wiener Platz, shaded by old chestnut trees. The self-service section is walk-in, with Hofbräu beer, Brotzeit plates and Bavarian dishes, and a separate area has table service. Kids get a small playground with a slide, and a sweets stall sells gingerbread hearts, sugar-bead necklaces, candied almonds and popcorn.
Munich's first indoor pool opened in 1901 and still runs in its original Art Nouveau halls. The big hall has a 31-meter pool under a painted, vaulted ceiling; the smaller hall has an 18-meter pool that is quieter and suits easy laps.
There is no paddling pool or learner pool, so it suits kids who already swim. Adults can add the sauna and the Roman-Irish steam bath.
Au-Haidhausen sits just across the Isar from the old town, and it makes an easy half day out with kids. Au runs along the river below the bluff, Haidhausen has the leafy squares and cafes up top, and the riverbank paths tie the two together. This list pulls together the places and plans for kids we've checked on this side of the river.
Storytellers Gabi Altenbach and Ines Honsel turn into pastry bakers for this pre-Christmas show, baking cookies on stage while they tell winter fairy tales. The stories swing from poetic to wild: animals big and small, trolls and forest folk, wishing and cursing.
It is told in German, so it suits kids who can follow a spoken story in German. The show ends with eating the fresh cookies.
A children's theater show about Meg, a lovable, playful cat who forgets that she has just eaten, that cats can't fly, and above all her cat flap. Her memory keeps the Schmidt family in regular chaos, and one day it all goes wrong.
It suits preschoolers and young school kids who like an animal story full of mix-ups.
The Auer Dult is one of Munich's oldest traditions, a market fair that fills Mariahilfplatz in Au three times a year. The spring edition brings about 250 stalls selling pottery, antiques, toys and kitchen gadgets, plus a ride area with bumper cars, a 1919 chain swing carousel, a Ferris wheel and throwing booths. It suits kids who like a few rides and parents who like to browse.
Maximiliansanlagen is about 2 km of wooded parkland on the high east bank of the Isar. Paths run under old trees past the Friedensengel column and the Maximilianeum, with views across to the old town and down to the river's weirs.
After a snowfall, the short slopes near the Maximilianeum are one of the most central sledding spots in town, with steep runs and gentle ones for small kids.
A traditional beer garden on Wiener Platz, shaded by old chestnut trees. The self-service section is walk-in, with Hofbräu beer, Brotzeit plates and Bavarian dishes, and a separate area has table service. Kids get a small playground with a slide, and a sweets stall sells gingerbread hearts, sugar-bead necklaces, candied almonds and popcorn.
Munich's first indoor pool opened in 1901 and still runs in its original Art Nouveau halls. The big hall has a 31-meter pool under a painted, vaulted ceiling; the smaller hall has an 18-meter pool that is quieter and suits easy laps.
There is no paddling pool or learner pool, so it suits kids who already swim. Adults can add the sauna and the Roman-Irish steam bath.
