Residenz Museum
Sprawling former royal palace of Bavarian dukes and kings, with Renaissance halls, rococo theatres, and a jeweled treasury.
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This guide to the Residenz Museum in Munich opens with the faint scars visible on some portraits in the Ancestral Gallery, and a rushed 1944 order given as Allied bombs closed in on the Wittelsbach dynasty's seven-hundred-year home. It follows what commanders decided to do with the family's paintings in the time they had, and what became of the rest of the palace once the bombing continued. Look closely at the frames around you, not far from where Duke Albrecht V once crammed his Roman statues into the Antiquarium in the 1560s.
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