© --Immanuel Giel 11:54, 22 September 200… · CC BY-SA 3.0ZwingerDresdenThe Zwinger is a Baroque palace complex with gardens in Dresden, Saxony. It stands in the historic heart of the city, near the Elbe river. The complex includes pavilions, galleries and terraces arranged around a central courtyard. Its name comes from the medieval term for the space between fortress walls, though the… read moreOpen place
© User:Kolossos · CC BY-SA 3.0Dresden CastleDresdenDresden Castle stands on the banks of the Elbe in the heart of the city. It began as a Romanesque keep built around 1200 and grew into a four-wing palace by the late 15th century. Arnold von Westfalen enlarged the keep between 1468 and 1480, creating an enclosed courtyard. In the 16th century a Saxon Renaissance wing… read moreOpen place
© Jörg Blobelt · CC BY-SA 4.0Green VaultDresdenThe Green Vault stands in Dresden Castle, on the first and second floors of its western section. It began in 1547 when Moritz of Saxony added rooms with green-painted column bases and elaborate plaster ceilings. Augustus the Strong turned these private chambers into a public museum between 1723 and 1729. The Historic… read moreOpen place
© W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0Golden RiderDresdenThe Goldener Reiter stands on Dresden’s Neustädter Markt, a bronze-gilded equestrian statue of August the Strong. The 18th-century work shows the Saxon elector and Polish king as a Roman emperor astride a rearing horse. It was designed by Jean Joseph Vinache and completed in 1736 after earlier models by Balthasar… read moreOpen place
© de:Benutzer:Dr. Meierhofer · CC BY-SA 3.0Dresden Porcelain CollectionDresdenThe Dresden Porcelain Collection stands in the Zwinger Palace, a Baroque building in the heart of Dresden. The palace’s south wing houses the porcelain, arranged in rooms that once held royal treasures. Augustus the Strong founded the collection in 1715, filling it with pieces from China and Japan. The collection… read moreOpen place
© User:Kolossos · CC BY-SA 3.0Kupferstich-Kabinett DresdenDresdenThe Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen and has been housed in Dresden Castle since 2004. It traces its origins to the art chamber of the House of Wettin, established around 1560, and became an independent museum in 1720. The collection expanded over the centuries and is now… read moreOpen place
© Ingersoll · Public domainDresden ArmoryDresdenThe Dresden Armoury, known locally as the Rüstkammer, stands inside Dresden Castle in the heart of Saxony. It forms part of the Dresden State Art Collections and holds one of the world’s largest groups of ceremonial armour, weapons and historical textiles. A separate section, the Turkish Chamber, focuses on art from… read moreOpen place
© Jörg Blobelt · CC BY-SA 4.0Japanisches PalaisDresdenThe Japanese Palace stands on the Neustadt bank of the Elbe in Dresden, Saxony. Built in 1715, it was enlarged between 1729 and 1731 to hold King Augustus the Strong’s Japanese porcelain collection. The architects Pöppelmann, Longuelune and de Bodt designed the Baroque building. After wartime damage on 13 February… read moreOpen place
© X-Weinzar · CC BY-SA 3.0Mathematisch-Physikalischer SalonDresdenThe Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon stands in Dresden’s Zwinger, a Baroque palace built in the 18th century. It houses one of Europe’s finest collections of historic scientific instruments. The museum reopened in 2013 after a major refurbishment of the Zwinger. Nearly 500 objects are now displayed across four themed… read moreOpen place
© Museumsfotograf · CC BY-SA 4.0MünzkabinettDresdenThe Münzkabinett is a numismatic collection in Dresden Castle, part of the Dresden State Art Collections. Founded around 1530, it ranks among the oldest museums in Dresden. The collection moved several times before returning to the castle in 2002. It holds nearly 300,000 objects, including coins, medals, bank notes… read moreOpen place
