There are at least four ways to spend the weekend with children in Munich without spending much. The concert at Bergson is free for under-14s, the museum in Nymphenburg costs €1 on Sundays, and the family ticket at the Flugwerft Schleißheim is €19.
A concert where children sing and solve riddles
Bergson Kunstkraftwerk (Am Bergson Kunstkraftwerk 2, 81245 Munich) stages the interactive family concert “Balduin und die Klassik”, a Beethoven adventure for children. Theatre producer Balduin is looking for a new star because his audience has stopped coming, and hears about Ludwig van Beethoven. The audience solves puzzles, sings and laughs along; Haydn and Mozart appear too, with piano, violin, viola and cello. It lasts about an hour.
Shows: Saturday 14:30 (doors 14:00) and 16:30, Sunday 11:00 (doors 10:30). A standard ticket costs €28; children under 14 get in free thanks to Stadtsparkasse München. Tickets are booked at bergson.com, and the organiser gives no recommended age. Accompanying adults pay: two adults come to €56, the children to nothing (our calculation from the organiser’s prices).
Space suits and waste sorting you can try yourself
The Flugwerft Schleißheim (Effnerstr. 18, 85764 Oberschleißheim), a branch of the Deutsches Museum, hosts “Inside the Suit – Der Mensch im Raumanzug” until 30 November: suits and helmets, including a training suit of a Soviet cosmonaut from the Tereshkova era, and a station showing how tiring it is to move in a space suit. Open daily 9:00–17:00. Adults pay €9, children and teenagers aged 6–17 €6, children up to 5 nothing. The family ticket is €19 (up to two adults with their own children under 18); for two adults and two schoolchildren that is €19 instead of €30 (our calculation). Getting there: S1 to Oberschleißheim, then about 15 minutes on foot.
The Museum Mensch und Natur in the north wing of Nymphenburg Palace (80638 Munich) shows “Jetzt geht’s rund – Kreisläufe statt Abfälle” until 10 January 2027: visitors can design a sustainable sneaker and try different ways of sorting waste. At weekends it opens 10:00–18:00. Adults pay €3.50, children and young people up to 18 nothing, and on Sundays admission is €1. Take tram 17 or bus 51 or 151 to Schloss Nymphenburg.
What if the child wants theatre?
The Münchner Theater für Kinder (Dachauer Straße 46, 80335 Munich) plays both days: Saturday at 10:00 “Oh, wie schön ist Panama” and at 15:00 “Kalif Storch” (age 6+); Sunday at 10:00 “Schneewittchen und die 7 Zwerge” (age 4+) and at 15:00 “Die kleine Zauberflöte”. Performances are in German. The city listings give no prices; they are shown at muenchenticket.de. Marionettentheater Bille puts on “Rotkäppchen” on Saturday at 15:00, age 3+.
For a trip out of town, Kloster Andechs (Bergstr. 2, 82346 Andechs) holds its Kinder- und Familientag on Saturday 10 October: bungee trampoline, face painting, giant soap bubbles, children’s folk-costume groups, the Malteser search-dog unit and a youth fire brigade. The announcement gives neither an admission price nor the hours of the day; the family service is at 16:45. The page also mentions another date (3 October), so call the organisers before setting off: +49 8152 376 247.
If you count every euro, Sunday at the Museum Mensch und Natur is cheapest; for schoolchildren, we think the Flugwerft with the family ticket offers the best value. Programmes and times can change, so check the organiser’s page before leaving.
Sources: Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, muenchen.de (Flugwerft Schleißheim), muenchen.de (Museum Mensch und Natur), muenchen.de (events calendar), Kloster Andechs
