alte pinakothek
the last stop on my painting list was the alte pinakothek . i was lucky that my friend, patricia from school, decided she would join me at the museum. the museum was pretty close to my hostel, so we just walked over from there. the museum has a reduced admission price for sundays, which was awesome. it was just a EUR to get in. ironically, this was also the only museum where i was asked to show that i had paid about halfway through our visit! they had a number of great paintings. again, no descriptions of the art except on two paintings. perhaps this is something is expected or the norm in germany. i am not really sure since i only went to two art museums in germany. patricia and i did have a difficult to find the "gems" (according to my guidebook) in the collection. we did notice there was a lot of glare on the paintings. at times, it was really difficult to see parts of the painting. we also wishe...