• Tickets only, no walk-ins, since every visit is a booked show or tour, and kids' dates often sell out within hours of going on sale
• Entrance at the back: building work has closed the Rosenheimer Straße gate, so use the lift on the north side at Gisela-Stein-Straße and allow 5 extra minutes
• English tours on Monday nights, while the kids' shows and other public tours are led in German

The Volkssternwarte is a public observatory run by an astronomy society, with a solar-system exhibition, a Zeiss planetarium dome, and a rooftop platform nearly 30 meters up with five telescope domes.

Kids' planetarium shows tell space stories under a projected night sky. The children's tour visits all three stations and ends at the big telescopes, with views to the Alps on clear days.