Gorgeous palace! The inside is apparently some vr experience thing and not like a normal castle…read moreexperience. They also have art and there's a few different exhibits. The outside was pretty but the whole garden is under construction so it's not the best right now.

What a neat historical place showing off some very old historical art work of Dresden Germany. The…read morecourt yards and gardens were absolutely spectacular to walk through and around the palace. Walking through and understanding culture hear was pretty fun and great experience.

Very good museum displaying different kinds of transport with cool photos and models of cars,…read morebuggy's, trains, etc. I enjoyed this a lot. It a realtively small museum with 2 levels and should take about 30-45 minutes to visit. Some of the displays did not have English (some did) descriptions. A good place to visit if you find this type of subject matter interesting.

This Old Masters Museum is in a complex. The museum entrance was hard to find because of the…read moretourist groups gathering and blocking the entrance. Once we made it into the building, we were rudely greeted by two old and angry women, and told to go downstairs for tickets. We were directed to self service lockers for coats and backpacks then to purchase tickets. The same rude "greeters" on the first floor practically yelled at me because I had my purse with me. She demanded that I return and store it in the locker. I asked if I could keep it with me because it contained my passport and with a stern and rude "nein" she turned me away. I did manage to put my valuables in my pocket in hopes that there are no pick pockets in the museum. The museum's collection is impressive, but the curation is not up to par. Many of the master works are behind glass such as Raphael's Sistina Madonna. The skylights and lighting above the Sistina Madonna casted a terrible glare, which made it impossible to enjoy the piece from a direct front view. The pieces are incredible, which would make this a 5* museum, but the terrible curation and horrible customer service bumped down 2*.

Ekstasis ~ "standing outside oneself" (from Greek, ex- "out" + histanai "to place")…read more First there was Raphael's Sistine Madonna. Then, somewhere between Giorgione's Sleeping Venus and Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window -- ecstasy waved and found us: sitting on round sofas, gazing at art.

The Residence Castle, is directly next to the "Green Vault", oder Historisches Und Neues Grünes…read moreGewölbe. Like the Green Vault, is it filled with the family heirlooms. It's incredible how many items they have been able to recover and put on display after the War. Plan to spend at least 2-3 hours here and yes, there is an incredible multi-language bookstore/gift shop which I spent too much in €€€€

A great value with an amazing collection. It was almost too much to take in! The alarmed displays…read moreare a great way to alert staff when someone gets too close without impeding viewability. I appreciated being able to go at our own pace & highly recommend taking a closer look at the details on some of the displayed items. For example, one knife handle has detsiled images on cameos the size of my fingernail embedded. The display glass was crystal clear (I saw a few people bonk their heads leaning in), and the lighting was reflection free- truly stunning display cases. I would gladly go back

This was an interesting 45 minutes. It is a display of products from the old East Germany on the…read moresecond floor of Simmel Center, a shopping center. There are several cars, motorcycles, clocks, living room settings, toys, uniforms, etc. The place is a bit hard to find. You can buy a combination ticket for this exhibit and the Stasi Museum here in Dresden. That is more interesting so if you can only do one, do the Stasi.

Beautiful museum and amazing tour guide!!! Learned a lot of history, the museum offers little…read moreEnglish translation but enough to get by. They have pamphlets in English. My group was well taken care of here & I enjoyed it immensely.

A moving experience that shows what happened in East Germany when one disagreed with the…read moregovernment. This prison was a temporary holding place until the East German secret police decided what to do with the person arrested. You can see a typical cell, the shower, the solitary confinement room, the interrogation room. Most troubling is the artwork the prisoners produced. It is so bleak and shows clearly the despair they felt. There are also audio interviews with people who were imprisoned here. There is only one thing that kept us from enjoying it fully and that is that everything is in German. So, OK, that makes sense - this is Germany. You will be given a booklet in English (or other languages, too, I think) and that helps. You can still fully appreciate what was going on here from 1945 to 1989 and you can see why we never want this to happen again.