Explore Dresden

Dresden Castle, also called the Residenzschloss, was for almost 400 years the residence of the electors and kings of Saxony. Largely destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Dresden and rebuilt after German reunification, it now houses museum collections including the Historic and New Green Vault, the armoury, and a coin collection.

The Zwinger is a Baroque palace complex in central Dresden, built from 1709 under architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann for Augustus the Strong. Its pavilions, galleries and gardens surround a courtyard with fountains, and the Semper Gallery wing, added in 1855, now houses several of the city's art collections.

The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister displays around 750 European paintings from the 15th to 18th centuries, including Italian Renaissance, Dutch and Flemish works. Part of the Dresden State Art Collections, the gallery occupies the Semper wing of the Zwinger on the bank of the Elbe.

The Albertinum is a sandstone Renaissance Revival museum building on Brühl's Terrace, named after King Albert of Saxony. It houses the Dresden State Art Collections' New Masters Gallery and Sculpture Collection, showing paintings and sculpture from the Romantic period to the present.

The German Hygiene Museum is a medical and science museum in Dresden, founded in 1912 by businessman Karl August Lingner after the 1911 International Hygiene Exhibition. Its current building, by architect Wilhelm Kreis, opened in 1930 and displays the Gläserner Mensch, a transparent anatomical model of the human body.