Neuhausen-Nymphenburg is where plenty of west-side families spend their weekends: palace grounds with swans and canals, big parks with deer and playgrounds, museums built for curious kids, and a pool for hot days. This list gathers the kid-friendly places and events in the district and updates itself as new ones come in, so you can plan a morning close to home.
Polarwelten is an indoor exhibition about the Arctic and Antarctic. Kids meet polar bears, penguins and whales through pictures and interactive stations.
The main draw is a 360° room with a show of about 25 minutes, where glaciers, icebergs, underwater scenes and northern lights surround you. It suits curious kids who like animals.
A hands-on chocolate workshop at Museum Mensch und Natur, in Schloss Nymphenburg. Kids find out where cocoa comes from, who harvests it and how a cocoa bean turns into a bar of chocolate.
It suits curious kids who like making things, with a grown-up alongside.
Heavysaurus is a rock band of four dinosaurs and a dragon, played by five professional musicians in full costume. They play loud metal on real instruments, written for kids: big riffs, sing-along choruses and a dino roar the whole room shouts back.
Expect a proper concert show with lights, fog, sparks, balloons and confetti. Songs are in German, though little German is needed to jump along.
A family concert built around a story: the pictures and words in a mysterious book are fading, and music and dance have to bring them back. Pianist Larissa Richter plays live, ballerina Tatiana Gribov dances and actress Stephanie Marin hosts. Kids don't only watch: they join in, move and dance along. Nobody has to sit still or stay quiet, so it suits kids who like to move.
Königlicher Hirschgarten has been an inn since 1791 and calls itself the largest beer garden in the world, with more than 8,000 outdoor seats split between a served section and a self-service area. A deer enclosure borders the garden, and kids can buy feed from a machine for the herd.
In winter, nine natural ice lanes open for Bavarian curling (Eisstockschießen).
Dantebad is a city-run outdoor pool that stays heated through the winter, so kids can swim outside in any season. There is a 50-meter lap pool at about 30°C and a warmer leisure pool with bubble loungers, a bubble grotto, a current channel and a water mushroom.
Table tennis, a restaurant and a separate sauna area for adults round it out.
Abenteuerspielplatz Neuhausen is an open-air yard where school kids handle hammers, nails and real tools, play with water and gather at the fire pit. Wild animals live on the grounds, signs show where to spot them, and a beekeeper looks after the hives by the workshop. Big play structures fill the rest.
The Kreisjugendring München-Stadt runs it as part of Oase Neuhausen.
A 21-hectare botanical garden, opened in 1914, beside Nymphenburg Palace park. Indoors, a chain of greenhouses runs from a tall palm house to a giant cactus hall, a tree fern house on lava rock, an orchid house and the Victoria house with its huge water lilies.
Outside, kids can follow paths through an alpine rock garden with over 2,000 species, an arboretum and pond areas.
Königlicher Hirschgarten has been a deer park since 1780, and its two-hectare enclosure of fallow deer and mouflon is still the main draw: kids can feed them, following the signs on the fence.
The south end has the elephant playground, with a huge sandbox and elephant slide, plus a water playground with a water slide. There's also a climbing tower, a small skate park, sledding hills and Munich's largest beer garden.
Bavaria's Wittelsbach rulers spent their summers here. The main palace has frescoed state rooms, and the 180-hectare park around it has lakes, swans, squirrels and four small park palaces to peek into.
The Marstallmuseum, in the old riding stables, holds over forty royal coaches and sleighs, including King Ludwig II's gilded state coaches and the Rococo coronation coach of Emperor Karl VII.
A natural history museum in the north wing of Nymphenburg Palace. The heart of it is a quiz hall where kids press a button to answer questions about animals, and doors pop open or model animals sprint off. Pumuckl audio plays by cases of local wildlife.
Elsewhere: glittering minerals, the history of life, a hall on the brain, and Bruno, the brown bear who roamed Bavaria in 2006.
Neuhausen-Nymphenburg is where plenty of west-side families spend their weekends: palace grounds with swans and canals, big parks with deer and playgrounds, museums built for curious kids, and a pool for hot days. This list gathers the kid-friendly places and events in the district and updates itself as new ones come in, so you can plan a morning close to home.
Polarwelten is an indoor exhibition about the Arctic and Antarctic. Kids meet polar bears, penguins and whales through pictures and interactive stations.
The main draw is a 360° room with a show of about 25 minutes, where glaciers, icebergs, underwater scenes and northern lights surround you. It suits curious kids who like animals.
A hands-on chocolate workshop at Museum Mensch und Natur, in Schloss Nymphenburg. Kids find out where cocoa comes from, who harvests it and how a cocoa bean turns into a bar of chocolate.
It suits curious kids who like making things, with a grown-up alongside.
Heavysaurus is a rock band of four dinosaurs and a dragon, played by five professional musicians in full costume. They play loud metal on real instruments, written for kids: big riffs, sing-along choruses and a dino roar the whole room shouts back.
Expect a proper concert show with lights, fog, sparks, balloons and confetti. Songs are in German, though little German is needed to jump along.
A family concert built around a story: the pictures and words in a mysterious book are fading, and music and dance have to bring them back. Pianist Larissa Richter plays live, ballerina Tatiana Gribov dances and actress Stephanie Marin hosts. Kids don't only watch: they join in, move and dance along. Nobody has to sit still or stay quiet, so it suits kids who like to move.
Königlicher Hirschgarten has been an inn since 1791 and calls itself the largest beer garden in the world, with more than 8,000 outdoor seats split between a served section and a self-service area. A deer enclosure borders the garden, and kids can buy feed from a machine for the herd.
In winter, nine natural ice lanes open for Bavarian curling (Eisstockschießen).
Dantebad is a city-run outdoor pool that stays heated through the winter, so kids can swim outside in any season. There is a 50-meter lap pool at about 30°C and a warmer leisure pool with bubble loungers, a bubble grotto, a current channel and a water mushroom.
Table tennis, a restaurant and a separate sauna area for adults round it out.
Abenteuerspielplatz Neuhausen is an open-air yard where school kids handle hammers, nails and real tools, play with water and gather at the fire pit. Wild animals live on the grounds, signs show where to spot them, and a beekeeper looks after the hives by the workshop. Big play structures fill the rest.
The Kreisjugendring München-Stadt runs it as part of Oase Neuhausen.
A 21-hectare botanical garden, opened in 1914, beside Nymphenburg Palace park. Indoors, a chain of greenhouses runs from a tall palm house to a giant cactus hall, a tree fern house on lava rock, an orchid house and the Victoria house with its huge water lilies.
Outside, kids can follow paths through an alpine rock garden with over 2,000 species, an arboretum and pond areas.
Königlicher Hirschgarten has been a deer park since 1780, and its two-hectare enclosure of fallow deer and mouflon is still the main draw: kids can feed them, following the signs on the fence.
The south end has the elephant playground, with a huge sandbox and elephant slide, plus a water playground with a water slide. There's also a climbing tower, a small skate park, sledding hills and Munich's largest beer garden.
Bavaria's Wittelsbach rulers spent their summers here. The main palace has frescoed state rooms, and the 180-hectare park around it has lakes, swans, squirrels and four small park palaces to peek into.
The Marstallmuseum, in the old riding stables, holds over forty royal coaches and sleighs, including King Ludwig II's gilded state coaches and the Rococo coronation coach of Emperor Karl VII.
A natural history museum in the north wing of Nymphenburg Palace. The heart of it is a quiz hall where kids press a button to answer questions about animals, and doors pop open or model animals sprint off. Pumuckl audio plays by cases of local wildlife.
Elsewhere: glittering minerals, the history of life, a hall on the brain, and Bruno, the brown bear who roamed Bavaria in 2006.
