For the kid who stops to watch every tram go by. These are the days out built around things that move: historic trams in an old bus workshop, steam locomotives on a station platform, jets and rockets in airfield hangars, race cars by the Olympiapark, and mountain railways that climb into the Alps. Here's what we checked, from the MVG Museum's tram hall to the cog railway up Wendelstein.
Three listed 1908 exhibition halls on the Theresienhöhe hold 275 vehicles, from trams and VW Beetles to steam locomotives and the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Hall I covers city traffic and crash safety; Hall II is a railway platform lined with locomotives and carriages; Hall III has racing cars, bikes and skates.
The children's area in Hall III lets kids build, paint, slide and play with toy cars.
The Deutsches Museum's aviation branch sits in hangars on the edge of the Schleißheim airfield, whose oldest buildings date from the early days of flight. More than 70 aircraft fill the halls, from a Lilienthal glider to the Eurofighter, plus helicopters, flying boats and the huge Europa rocket.
It suits plane-mad kids more than toddlers.
The MVG Museum is the collection of Munich's public transport operator, set in a listed former bus workshop of over 5,000 square meters. About 25 historic trams, buses and works vehicles from different eras stand side by side, each with a board on its maker, specs and working life.
Themed areas cover city history, how transport developed, uniforms, signage and advertising, and the control center.
The BMW Museum traces over 100 years of BMW cars and motorcycles through themed houses on design, technology, motorsport and the brand, in a bowl-shaped building next to the Olympiapark.
Kids walk past race cars, prototypes and the tiny Isetta bubble car, and at least one Art Car painted by artists such as Andy Warhol or Jeff Koons is always on display.
One of the largest museums in Germany, with 20 permanent exhibitions on an island in the Isar. Kids walk among planes and helicopters in Modern Aviation, see how locks and bridges work, and try about 20 hands-on light experiments in Classical Optics.
Younger children head to Kids' Kingdom: a marble run, a fire engine to climb into, a giant guitar to crawl inside and a pedal-powered aircraft.
Wendelstein is a Bavarian Alps peak with two ways up: a cog railway from Brannenburg, running since 1912, that climbs 1,217 meters through meadows and forest, or a seven-minute cable car from Bayrischzell.
At the top, kids can walk down 82 steps into Germany's highest show cave, climb the wooden play area, and walk past Germany's highest church to the Gacher Blick viewing platform.
Zugspitze is Germany's highest mountain, at 2,962 meters. A cogwheel train climbs from Garmisch-Partenkirchen past Lake Eibsee and through a 4.5 km tunnel to the glacier plateau, home to the country's highest church and, in winter, a family toboggan run.
The Gletscherbahn lifts you on to the summit platform and its golden cross. The record-breaking cable car drops two kilometers back down to Eibsee.
For the kid who stops to watch every tram go by. These are the days out built around things that move: historic trams in an old bus workshop, steam locomotives on a station platform, jets and rockets in airfield hangars, race cars by the Olympiapark, and mountain railways that climb into the Alps. Here's what we checked, from the MVG Museum's tram hall to the cog railway up Wendelstein.
Three listed 1908 exhibition halls on the Theresienhöhe hold 275 vehicles, from trams and VW Beetles to steam locomotives and the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Hall I covers city traffic and crash safety; Hall II is a railway platform lined with locomotives and carriages; Hall III has racing cars, bikes and skates.
The children's area in Hall III lets kids build, paint, slide and play with toy cars.
The Deutsches Museum's aviation branch sits in hangars on the edge of the Schleißheim airfield, whose oldest buildings date from the early days of flight. More than 70 aircraft fill the halls, from a Lilienthal glider to the Eurofighter, plus helicopters, flying boats and the huge Europa rocket.
It suits plane-mad kids more than toddlers.
The MVG Museum is the collection of Munich's public transport operator, set in a listed former bus workshop of over 5,000 square meters. About 25 historic trams, buses and works vehicles from different eras stand side by side, each with a board on its maker, specs and working life.
Themed areas cover city history, how transport developed, uniforms, signage and advertising, and the control center.
The BMW Museum traces over 100 years of BMW cars and motorcycles through themed houses on design, technology, motorsport and the brand, in a bowl-shaped building next to the Olympiapark.
Kids walk past race cars, prototypes and the tiny Isetta bubble car, and at least one Art Car painted by artists such as Andy Warhol or Jeff Koons is always on display.
One of the largest museums in Germany, with 20 permanent exhibitions on an island in the Isar. Kids walk among planes and helicopters in Modern Aviation, see how locks and bridges work, and try about 20 hands-on light experiments in Classical Optics.
Younger children head to Kids' Kingdom: a marble run, a fire engine to climb into, a giant guitar to crawl inside and a pedal-powered aircraft.
Wendelstein is a Bavarian Alps peak with two ways up: a cog railway from Brannenburg, running since 1912, that climbs 1,217 meters through meadows and forest, or a seven-minute cable car from Bayrischzell.
At the top, kids can walk down 82 steps into Germany's highest show cave, climb the wooden play area, and walk past Germany's highest church to the Gacher Blick viewing platform.
Zugspitze is Germany's highest mountain, at 2,962 meters. A cogwheel train climbs from Garmisch-Partenkirchen past Lake Eibsee and through a 4.5 km tunnel to the glacier plateau, home to the country's highest church and, in winter, a family toboggan run.
The Gletscherbahn lifts you on to the summit platform and its golden cross. The record-breaking cable car drops two kilometers back down to Eibsee.
