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Grunes Gövölbe Museum

Green Arches is the richest collection of jewels in Europe. The exposition is based on the treasury of Saxon kings and electors.

The Grünes Gewölbe Museum or the Green Arches in Dresden

The Grünes Gewölbe Museum or the Green Arches is Europe’s richest collection of jewels. The exposition of the museum is a treasury of Saxon kings and electors, which they have been collecting for centuries, carefully preserving all the good obtained in campaigns and wars.

The treasury received such an unusual name in the 16th century, when it grew to such an incredible size that it was necessary to equip one of the halls of the Dresden Palace for it. The room had vaulted green ceilings. At the beginning of the 18th century, the then elector of Saxony and the king of Poland, Augustus the Strong, ruled that the doors to all adjacent rooms should be cut from the treasury. There were 7 such premises and the creator of Zwinger, architect Matteus Daniel Pöppelman, on the orders of the king, converted these rooms into the halls of the public museum of the treasury. These were mirror cabinets, the walls of which repeatedly reflected, the jewels stored in them, fabulously exaggerating a considerable number of them.

The treasury of Grunes Gevolbe became the first museum of its kind. In 1945, all the exhibits were taken to the USSR, but after 13 years they returned to Germany again.

The Grünes Gewölbe Museum or the Green Arches in Dresden

The Grünes Gewölbe Museum or the Green Arches in Dresden

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Take tram 4, 8, 9 to the Theaterplatz stop.

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