GLYPTOTHEK

museum in Munich that houses a collection of Greek and Roman sculpture owned by the Bavarian state. The building, commissioned by King Louis I of Bavaria and designed in the Neoclassical style by Leo von Klenze, was erected 181630. It is a subsidiary of the nearby Staatliche Antikensammlungen (State Collection of Antiquities), which specializes in Greek and Etruscan bronzes and vases and Greek and Roman glass, jewelry, and terra-cottas.