Historic Green Vault

Photo: SKD/Jürgen Karpinski

On the occasion of the city’s anniversary in September 2006, the Historisches Grünes Gewölbe (Historic Green Vault) has opened its doors on the ground floor of the West Wing of the Dresden Royal Palace.

Between 1723 and 1730 August the Strong realized his vision of a Baroque synthesis of the arts as an expression of wealth and absolutist power. Extensive restoration work and partial reconstruction allow the historic interior to shine in new splendour. In harmony with the festive architecture, 3,000 artworks are presented standing freely against a background of richly embellished and mirrored display walls and on ornamental tables.

In this incomparable Baroque setting, the individual artwork recedes behind the overflowing abundance of the whole. The circular tour climaxes in the Jewel Room where the jewel sets of August the Strong and his son are on view - a unique historical collection of eighteenth-century ceremonial jewellery.

Please note that ticket reservation is necessary.

Opening hours
daily, except Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (last admittance at 6 p.m.)

Entrance fee
10.00 € per visitor, including audio-guide, without VAT (plus advance booking fee of 1.50 € including VAT), 12.00 € (incl. advance booking fee and audio-guide) from July 2009. There are no reductions. Free admission (without a ticket):

children under the age of 7
a person accompanying the bearer of a document for severely handicapped persons (abbreviation „B“), which must be presented upon admission.

Please note
The tour is taken with an audio-guide. There are no guided tours on offer. The number of visitors is restricted to 100 persons per hour with regard to the mode in which the exhibition is presented. Admission is at a fixed time, on the full and the half hour, with a time frame of 15 minutes. You will find the relevant data on your ticket. For technical reasons, there is no admission after the time frame has expired. Visitors must check their coats and bags, which may take some time. So please come well ahead of the time frame. Please mind that it is not allowed to take photos in the museum.

Advance sale of tickets
Advance sale including Online Booking (with an embedded link to the starting page for booking) ends on the day previous to the visit. Booked tickets cannot be returned. You print your own ticket(s) on a commercial ink-jet or laser printer. A barcode is printed twice on each ticket. The code is scanned in the admission area of the Historic Green Vault. So as not to damage the barcode, do not fold or mutilate your ticket. When scanned as valid, the barcode entitles to one visit within the relevant time frame. It becomes invalid after one scanning. Tickets must not be commercially resold nor misused or copied. We wish you a pleasant tour of the Historic Green Vault.

The Green Vault is Europe's most splendid treasury museum. Its collection comprises masterpieces of jewellery and goldsmiths’ work as well as precious objects of amber and ivory, jewelled receptacles and elaborate bronze statuettes.

On the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Dresden, in September 2006, Augustus the Strong's historical treasure chamber museum was reopened in the vaults on the ground floor of the West Wing of Dresden’s Royal Palace. In those historical rooms, the precious works of art is displayed not in glass cases, but in the ”old-fashioned” way — on the consoles of display walls and on decorative tables. Visitors thus experience the grandeur of the treasure chamber as a Baroque synthesis of the arts in all its splendour and at breathtakingly close proximity.