The Great Gallery
European baroque painting in its original halls.
Carsten Steger โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Flocci Nivis โ CC BY 4.0 ยท Janwarna โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Public domain
The New Palace without hesitation โ it holds the Great Gallery, the state rooms and the baroque staircase, and it is what justifies the journey. Lustheim is worth it only if porcelain specifically interests you, and it means an additional walk across the whole garden. The Old Palace is much smaller and plainer, holding an ethnographic display.
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Schleissheim is not one palace but three on a single axis: the Old Palace from the early seventeenth century, the vast baroque New Palace of 1701, and the small Lustheim palace at the far end โ separated by a baroque garden of straight canals and symmetrical basins. The New Palace is a story of ambition unfulfilled: the Elector Max Emanuel wanted it to rival Versailles at a time when he expected to become emperor, and began building on an enormous scale. But he lost his war, was exiled and went bankrupt, so work stopped and whole wings stood unfinished for decades. What you see today is grand but far smaller than what was planned. Its artistic value lies in the Great Gallery: the palace holds a branch of the Bavarian State Painting Collections devoted to European baroque painting โ Flemish, Italian and Spanish works shown in the original halls rather than a modern museum. Lustheim, meanwhile, holds a Meissen porcelain collection among the largest outside Dresden. Access from Munich is about thirty minutes by train and bus.
European baroque painting in its original halls.
Among the largest holdings outside Dresden.
Max-Emanuel-Platz 1, 85764 Oberschleissheim