9 Vintage Postcards of Munich That Show How Little The City Has Changed

If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably at some point wistfully described the Altstadt of Munich as something that looked “straight out of a painting” or “like a step back in time”. (I assume in an Instagram caption of some kind)

… But wow, we only recently just found out how true that really is.

Spurred by boredom and overcaffeination (as always), we at Bored in Munich went down a black hole last weekend of snooping through the Wikimedia Common Archives. What we found was a treasure trove of vintage postcards from Munich in the 19th and 20th century. The craziest thing? A lot of Munich looks……. pretty much the same as it does today.

Don’t believe us? Take a look at these!

Hofbräuhaus

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Nationalmuseum

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Prinzregentstheater

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Stacchus

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Siegestor

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View from the Maximilaneum

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View from St Peter’s

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Theatinerstrasse

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Marienplatz

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