07-25-2016 Munich – The Munich Residence
I didn’t end up going to Austria because of lack of planning.
Originally I thought since Magnus hometown is that close to Innsbruck, there must be direct transportation between the cities. In fact, there is no direct train nor bus to Austria. The bus ride would at least require three transfer, which also takes 5 hours to get there. I just gave up the plan even though I already had non refundable bookings paid.
Split the room with Elbert for the night in Munich. This is a legit hotel … Without air conditioning.
Free buffet breakfast was included, but Elbert had to leave at 3 am in the morning, so we couldn’t enjoy the breakfast together.
I had pretty much explored most of Munich last time I visited, and not much has changed.
Munich Residence
The entrance of the Munich residence museum is really hard to find, and please do not trust the google maps location, it’s very misleading and you should just look up the maps from the official website and the signs to the entrance upon arrival.
Even though some part of museum is under renovation, the just the museum itself (excluding the treasury) is really huge with free audio guide description in almost every room.
The very first place I entered is very unique. It is fully decorated with actual seashells. They first made the scriptures and glued the seashells onto them piece by piece. It should have been amazingly beautiful before all the corrosion.
There is a main theme in this museum and you will probably hear this from every audio recording – “this is a copy of the original piece / replica of the original painting…”
Now I fully understand what the people meant on tripadvisor when I saw the reviews saying the museum was hollow because everything was destroyed during the World War II.
This residence was heavily impacted by the war and most of the paintings and furnitures were damaged / stolen at the time.
He biggest and oldest hall in the museum
If you look closely, you’d see each painting depicts one of the major cities in Bavaria.
