Schloss Nymphenburg Marstallmuseum
Royal stable hall of gilded coaches and sleighs, including a fairytale king's electric-lit night sleigh.
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This guide to the Marstallmuseum at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich opens on a winter night in the 1870s, following the glow of a battery-lit sleigh through the Bavarian dark, and the reclusive King Ludwig the Second riding alone inside it. It follows the Munich carriage maker who built the sleigh in 1878 and the extravagant neo-Rococo style that turned an engineering feat into something closer to a fairy tale, keeping pace with the same restless mind behind Neuschwanstein. Look for the same maker's touch among the museum's other gilded carriages and sleighs.
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