About Dresden

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Selected Museums

Dresden State Art Collections

• Old Masters Picture Gallery (Semper Gallery Building at the Zwinger)
• New Masters Picture Gallery (Albertinum)
• The Green Vault (Royal Palace)
• The Turkish Chamber (Royal Palace)
• Mathematical and Physical Science Salon (Zwinger)
• Porcelain Collection (Zwinger)
• Armoury (Zwinger)
• Museum of Decorative Arts (Pillnitz Palace)
• Saxon Folk Art Museum (Jägerhof, near Golden Horseman)
• Ethnographical Museum (Japanese Palais)

 Museen der Stadt Dresden

• Stadtmuseum Dresden (Landhaus, Wilsdruffer Straße 2)
• Städtische Galerie (Landhaus,  Wilsdruffer Str. 2)
• Technische Sammlungen (History of Engineering, Ernemann Building, Junghansstraße 1 - 3)

Verkehrsmuseum Dresden (Transport Museum)
 Johanneum, Neumarkt



Other Places of Interest

Selected Theaters

• Semper Opera House
• Staatsschauspiel Dresden (Schauspielhaus / Kleines Haus)
• Herkuleskeule (Cabaret Theatre), Sternplatz 1
• Komödie, Freiberger Str. 39

Äußere Neustadt

• Quarter in the North of the city which remained undestroyed during the war. Now a center of nightlife and culture that is worth visiting.

Surroundings

Famous Ensembles near Dresden

• Pillnitz Palace and Garden
• Moritzburg Palace, Baroque Museum, and Surroundings
• Großsedlitz Baroque Garden
• Königstein Fortress

Historic Towns

• Meissen (Former Saxon residence, Gothic castle and cathedral, town of the first European porcelain)
• Freiberg (Centre of the Saxon silver mining, place of the first Academy of Mining, Gothic churches with organs from Silbermann)
• Bautzen (Center of the Oberlausitz and the area of the Sorb minority)

Sächsische Schweiz (Saxon Swiss) National Park

• Around the towns Pirna, Königstein, and Bad Schandau, a landscape can be visited which is famous since painters like Ludwig Richter and Caspar David Friedrich detected its beauty in the 18th and 19th century. The "Saxon Swiss" (on the German side, covering 360 km²) and the "Bohemian Swiss" (on the Czech side) form the Elbsandsteingebirge (Elbe Sandstone Mountains) that offers numerous labyrinths of rocks with ways for hiking and climbing. The most famous point is the Bastei, a rock near the village Rathen that rises 200 meters immediately over the Elbe river.