Appropriately in view of the 50 years German-French friendship, which is being celebrated these days, we spent a week in Munich and had some thoughts about these two cities similarities and differences.
While H was in meetings at the Max Planck Institute, I spend the time sightseeing and visiting museums and parks. The museums I visited alone but for the sightseeing and walk in the parks I had the company of Munich friends.
For the museums (http://www.pinakothek.de/en/home, http://www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/) I took two days to visit and to discover. Just enough time to get an overview and to want to return.
From the "Great (608,5 x 463,5 cm!) Last Judgement" painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1617 to the many well preserved wooden sculptures by Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531) 
to a large collection of modern art in the Pinakothek der Moderne: a wealth of art which can be compared with the Louvre's richness.
The entrance hall of the Pinakothek der Moderne has a glass opening to the sky similar to the entrance hall of the Louvre
and the interest in the art exhibitions seems to be just as intense.
