The Historic Green Vault
Treasure rooms restored to their eighteenth-century state. A separate timed ticket, and worth booking ahead.
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The Historic one is the original restored rooms, entered on a timed ticket with limited daily numbers, and the stronger experience. The New one is modern galleries showing the pieces under focused light, covered by the general ticket. If you must choose, book the Historic one early.
For the Historic Green Vault, emphatically yes — slots are limited and sell out weeks in advance in summer. For the other museums booking helps but is not essential on an ordinary day.
Two hours for one or two museums, four for both vaults, the armoury and the tower. The castle is larger than it looks, and trying to see everything in one visit is exhausting.
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Dresden Castle was the seat of the rulers of Saxony for more than four hundred years. The building is huge and mixed in style, having grown and changed across centuries. It was almost entirely destroyed in the bombing of February 1945 and rebuilt in stages over decades, with some parts finished only recently. Today it is not a palace but a group of museums under one roof. The best known is the Green Vault, the treasure chamber of the Saxon rulers: jewellery, goldwork, ivory and amber, some of it among the finest craftsmanship made anywhere in Europe. The Green Vault comes in two parts. The Historic Green Vault sits in rooms restored as they were in the eighteenth century, and needs a separate timed ticket with limited daily numbers. The New Green Vault is in modern galleries under focused lighting, and is covered by the general ticket. There is also an armoury of weapons and armour, a print collection, and a castle tower you can climb for a view over the old town.
Treasure rooms restored to their eighteenth-century state. A separate timed ticket, and worth booking ahead.
Astonishingly fine pieces in modern galleries under focused light, covered by the general ticket.
A climb for a view over the old town roofs and the Elbe.
Full suits of armour for knights and horses, and ornate ceremonial weapons.
Taschenberg 2, 01067 Dresden