If you’re an art lover then it makes sense to take the brief tram ride towards the city’s Maxvorstadt district, the site of the Kunstareal or ‘art district’. This is the home of galleries (www.pinakothek.de) hosting artworks ranging from classical sculptures in the Glyptotech, through old masters in the Alte Pinakotech gallery, works by Cézanne and van Goghs in the Neue Pinakotech, to contemporary classics by Beuys in the Pinakotech der Moderne and Cy Twombly in the neighboring Brandhorst Museum, a building notable for its colorful façade consisting of ceramic rods. In the city center, the Residenz Museum (www.residenz-muenchen.de), on the site of the palace long used by Bavaria’s reigning Wittelsbach family, is widely regarded as one of Europe’s finest. It hosts one of the world’s leading porcelain collections plus artifacts throwing light onto courtly life during medieval times.