Dresden

Old Masters Picture Gallery

Home to many outstanding paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries, including Raphael’s Sistine Madonna.

Green Vault

Augustus the Strong’s baroque treasury.

Church of Our Lady

Thank God it was rebuilt in 2005.

Panometer Dresden

Panorama Baroque Dresden or Dresden 1945.

Albertinum

Art from romanticism to the present.

Moritzburg Castle

The slightly oversized hunting lodge of Augustus the Strong.

Dresden Transport Museum

A fascinating journey through the world of mobility — on land, on water and in the air.

Dresden Technical Collections

Science & technology museum.

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum

Medical & public health museum.

Museum of Military History

The military museum of the Bundeswehr is one of the major military history museums in Germany.

Albrechtsburg Castle

15th-century castle, in use as porcelain manufactory from 1710 to 1863.

Armoury

See the Turkish Chamber.

Augustus Bridge

Bridge by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.

Bautzner Straße Memorial

Former Stasi prison.

Botanical Garden

Brühl’s Terrace and Dresden Fortress

Carl Maria von Weber Museum

Museum dedicated to composer CMvW.

Coin Cabinet

Dreikönigskirche

Baroque church by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.

Dresden Cathedral

Church with a Silbermann organ & the heart of Augustus the Strong.

Dresden City Art Museum

Dresden City Museum

Dresden Park Railway

5⅗-km-long miniature railway largely operated by children, formerly aimed to foster communist ideals.

Dresden Royal Palace

The Green Vault & Armoury are pretty cool.

Dresdner Molkerei Gebrüder Pfund

You might recognize Patisserie Mendl’s from the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Elbe River Cruise

Paddle steam boat cruise to Saxon Switzerland.

Ethnographical Museum Dresden

Golden Horseman

Monumental equestrian statue of Augustus the Strong.

Grand Garden

Hillside Railways

Funicular & suspension railways.

Käthe Kollwitz House

Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz.

Kraszewski Museum

Museum dedicated to writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Kreuzkirche

Kügelgenhaus

Museum of Dresden romanticism.

Kulturpalast

Modernist concert hall praised for its first-class acoustics.

Kunsthalle

Art gallery.

Kunsthaus Dresden

Contemporary art gallery.

Kunsthofpassage Dresden

The singing drain pipes in the Courtyard of Elements are worth a detour.

Leonhardi Museum

Contemporary art gallery.

Little Pheasant Castle

Lößnitz Valley Railway

16⅗-km-long steam-powered narrow-gauge railway line to Radebeul Ost & Radeburg.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Europe’s oldest porcelain manufactory (1710).

Münchner Platz Memorial

Former Nazi & GDR courthouse, prison & execution site.

Museum of Prints, Drawings and Photographs

Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum

New Synagogue

Synagogue by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer & Wolfgang Lorch.

Pillnitz Castle

Where Countess Cosel, the widely-famed mistress of Augustus the Strong, lived until she fell from grace.

Porcelain Collection

Please mind Dürer’s rhinoceros.

Prager Straße

Modernist architecture everywhere!

Procession of Princes

Mural representing the history of the Wettins, Saxony’s ruling family, as a procession of riders.

Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments

The astronomical clock rocks.

Saxon State and University Library

Home to the Dresden Maya Codex.

Schiller Pavilion

Where Friedrich Schiller finished Ode to Joy.

Semperoper Dresden

Opera house by architect Gottfried Semper.

Transparent Factory

Experience Volkswagen manufacturing up close.

Vineyard Church

Church by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.

Wackerbarth Castle

Baroque garden & vineyard.

Zoo Dresden

Zwinger

Baroque palace by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.