The Antiquarium
A barrel vault over sixty metres long — the largest Renaissance hall north of the Alps.
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The Treasury for the strongest impression in the shortest time — an hour covers it and what is in it is exceptional. The museum needs at least two hours and gives you the architecture and the great halls. With half a day, take the combined ticket and start with the Treasury, then the Antiquarium.
Nymphenburg is a summer palace outside the centre with extensive gardens, and a visit combines building, grounds and open air. The Residenz is an entirely interior city palace, far richer in holdings and state rooms. In good weather Nymphenburg makes the better day; in rain, or if history is your interest, the Residenz.
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The royal seat of the Wittelsbachs, who ruled Bavaria for seven centuries, in the heart of old Munich. It is the largest city palace in Germany. The complex grew over centuries from a small castle into a labyrinth of ten courtyards and some hundred and thirty rooms open to visitors, each wing from a different era and taste: Renaissance halls, rococo apartments, nineteenth-century classical salons. Its most famous room is the Antiquarium, a Renaissance hall with a barrel vault running more than sixty metres, built to display a collection of antique sculpture, and the largest room of its kind north of the Alps. The Treasury is a separate section showing crowns, crosses and goldwork going back a thousand years, among them the Gothic crown of an English queen — the oldest surviving English crown anywhere, and it is here rather than in London. One practical thing to know: the place is too large to see in a single visit, and its sections are sold on separate tickets or a combined one. Choose what you want before going in rather than discovering the scale once inside. The building was largely destroyed in the Second World War and its interiors rebuilt over decades.
A barrel vault over sixty metres long — the largest Renaissance hall north of the Alps.
The oldest surviving English crown is displayed here rather than in London.
One of Europe's finest surviving rococo interiors, with limited hours.
Max-Joseph-Platz, central Munich