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The Armory Chamber is currently presenting part of its collection in multiple exhibition areas at the Royal Palace in Dresden as well as in special exhibitions at other locations. In the coming years further permanent exhibitions will follow in the course of the restoration of the Royal Palace.

Permanent exhibition of the Armoury
The Rise of Electoral Power in Saxony

The world’s largest collection of ceremonial weapons and costumes from the Reformation and early Baroque periods

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Dauerausstellung Auf dem Weg zur Kurfürstenmacht
© SKD
Permanent exhibition at the Royal Palace
The Royal State Apartments of August the Strong and the Porcelain Cabinet Learn more
festlicher Raum mit prunkvollen goldenen Elementen und einem Thron
© Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: HC KRASS
Permanent exhibition of the Armoury
The new Hall of the Giants

Presentation in the Residenzschloss of tournament and ceremonial weapons and accoutrements from the Rüstkammer collections

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kunstvoll verzierter Harnisch
© SKD
New permanent exhibition at the Royal Palace
The Firearms Gallery in the Long Corridor Learn more
Blick in einen Ausstellungsraum
© Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Jürgen Loesel
Permanent exhibition of the Armoury
The Electoral Wardrobe

Original costumes illustrate the luxurious princely fashions of the Renaissance and early Baroque

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Kurfürstliches Gewand
© SKD
Permanent exhibition of the Armoury
Turkish Chamber

One of the oldest and most important collections of Ottoman art anywhere in the world outside Turkey

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kunstvoll verzierte Schwertgriffe
© SKD
Permanent exhibition of the Armoury
Concept and Encounter: The World around 1600

Works originating from the late Renaissance from Dresden’s Kunstkammer form the focal point of this exhibition.

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Objekte der Rüstkammer
© SKD
Exhibition of the Rüstkammer at the Studiolo
08/11/2024—30/06/2025

Morgenröte. Łukasz Huculak sees Jacob Böhme

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© Łukasz Huculak
Blickwechsel Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann at Gewehrgalerie at Langer Gang
21/05/2025—05/01/2026

The Bomb Cello by Charlotte Moorman and the Müller rifles of the Gewehrgalerie

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© Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, Foto: SKD, Herbert Boswank.

At other locations

Exhibition in Torgau, Schloss Hartenfels
Torgau. Home of the Renaissance and Reformation Learn more
Armbrust, Caspar Schultheys, Leipzig 1586
© SKD, Foto: Jürgen Karpinski

Archive

 

Past exhibitions of the Rüstkammer

 

further exhibitions

Further Exhibitions

Grünes Gewölbe

in Residenzschloss

Münzkabinett

in Residenzschloss

Münzen, Medaillen und Orden

Kupferstich-Kabinett

in Residenzschloss

Portrait eines Mannes mit Hut und Vollbart

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and Skulpturensammlung until 1800

in Zwinger

Madonna mit dem Jesuskind, am unteren Rand die zwei Engel
All Exhibitions

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