Creative Lunch Club is a global community for people working in the creative industries. Whether you are a graphic designer, a photographer, a marketer, or a filmmaker, the Creative Lunch Club gives you the chance to regularly meet other creatives in your city for lunch.

Import Export is the social heart of the Kreativquartier, a bar and events venue in the old barracks complex that hosts live music, talks, exhibitions and parties almost every night of the week. It pulls in a mixed crowd of artists, designers, musicians and locals from the surrounding neighbourhood. Rough around the edges but full of energy.

Feierwerk is a long-running cultural centre in Sendling with concert venues, a club, a multigenerational community house and a radio station all on one site. It's been supporting young and underground culture in Munich since the 1980s and remains one of the city's most important DIY creative spaces, with cheap tickets and a genuinely open community ethos.

Impact Hub Munich is a converted warehouse space in Sendling for entrepreneurs and creatives working on things that matter. Monthly events connect social innovators and freelancers, and the space has a buzzy, collaborative feel. It's part of a global network, which means good connections if you work internationally.

MATES is a coworking space built specifically for Munich's creative and media industry. With two locations in the city, it draws freelancers, small studios and media companies who want a community rather than just a desk. Regular events and a curated membership make it feel less like an office and more like a clubhouse for the creative scene.

Munich Urban Colab is a joint initiative between the City of Munich and UnternehmerTUM, spread across 11,000 square metres in the Kreativquartier. It mixes coworking desks, event spaces and a full MakerSpace into one building, and the community is focused on sustainable smart city solutions. Artist scholarships for MakerSpace access make it a legit resource for creatives too.

Mindspace Viktualienmarkt is the design-conscious option for coworking in central Munich, located a stone's throw from the historic Viktualienmarkt. The interiors are carefully put together and the community leans premium, with a focus on creative and knowledge-economy workers who want their workspace to look the part.

WERK1 sits in the Werksviertel creative district near Ostbahnhof and is the go-to hub for Munich's digital startup scene. Over 10,000 square metres of coworking, coliving, meeting rooms and a cafe on site, with a strong events programme bringing the community together. It's lively, well-connected and genuinely startup-friendly.

Trisoux is a small, owner-run cocktail bar in the Glockenbach that punches well above its size. The cocktail list is inventive, the spirit selection is serious and the interior design alone is worth showing up for. It's the kind of low-key bar that becomes your regular the second you discover it.

Lost Weekend is a fully vegan café, bookshop, vinyl shop and live events venue all in one glass-fronted space in Maxvorstadt. By day it's a good spot to work over coffee and a snack; by night it hosts poetry slams, stand-up comedy and live music. Art from local emerging artists lines the windows. A proper creative hub.

Man Versus Machine is one of the most respected specialty coffee roasters in Germany and their Glockenbach café is the place to experience it. Founded by Marco and Cornelia Mehrwald, they roast exclusively on-site using specialty-grade beans sourced through Nordic Approach. Light to medium roasts, a full filter bar, and a crowd that clearly knows its coffee.

MUCA opened in 2016 in a converted municipal electricity substation near Marienplatz and is Germany's first museum dedicated to urban and street art. The permanent collection is strong, and the temporary exhibitions pull in significant international names from the global urban art scene. It's accessible, well-programmed and genuinely fun to visit.

Pinakothek der Moderne houses four separate collections under one roof: fine art, graphic design, architecture and design. The design collection, Die Neue Sammlung, is one of the most important design museums in the world with over 120,000 objects spanning industrial design, graphic design, mobility and digital culture. For creatives, this is the main event.

Suuapinga started as one small café in Schwabing and has grown into a proper Munich institution with six locations across the city. They roast their own beans and bake everything in-house, with cinnamon rolls and cardamom knots alongside a precise, well-considered coffee menu. Minimalist, warm and consistently good.

Lenbachhaus holds the world's largest collection of Blue Rider work, including Kandinsky and Franz Marc, inside a Florentine-style villa that Norman Foster extended in 2013. Beyond the iconic collection, it shows serious contemporary names including Gerhard Richter, Isa Genzken and Olafur Eliasson. One of Munich's best institutions, full stop.

Munich Maker Lab is a community-run makerspace inside the Kreativquartier where hackers, makers and tinkerers of all kinds share tools, machines and knowledge. It's open to anyone who wants to build something, and the vibe is collaborative and welcoming whether you're a product designer prototyping something serious or just experimenting.

Hier Store is a curated concept store in Haidhausen focused almost entirely on Munich-made and locally produced goods. Around 30 Munich-area labels are represented across jewellery, ceramics, clothing, stationery and home textiles, all with sustainable production and careful design. The owner also has a studio on-site where she makes pieces you can see being created.

The Eisbachwelle in the English Garden is one of Munich's defining images: a standing river wave in the middle of a 375-hectare city park where surfers queue to ride year-round. The English Garden itself is bigger than Central Park and the kind of green space that genuinely improves the quality of your day. Go for the surf, stay for the beer garden at the Chinesischer Turm.

Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW) is Germany’s largest design event, bringing together creatives, companies, and cultural institutions for a full week of talks, exhibitions, and workshops.

It’s a platform to explore new ideas in design, business, and innovation while connecting with the creative community across Munich.