Grunes Gewolde

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The Grunes Gewalbe (English: Green Vault) in Dresden is a unique historic museum that contains the largest collection of treasures in Europe. Founded by Augustus the Strong in 1723, it features a rich variety of exhibits from the Baroque to Classicism. It is named after the formerly malachite green painted column bases and capitals of the initial rooms. It has some claim to be the oldest museum in the world; it is older than the British Museum founded in 1759, but the Vatican Museums date their foundation to the public display of the newly excavated Laocoan group in 1506.

After the destruction of the Second World War, the Grunes Gewalbe has been completely reconstructed. Today, its treasures are shown in two exhibitions: The Historic Green Vault (Historisches Grunes Gewalbe) is famous for its splendors of the historic treasure chamber as it existed in 1733, while the New Green Vault (Neues Grunes Gewalbe) focuses the attention on each individual object in neutral rooms.

The Grunes Gewalbe is located on the first and second floors of the western section of the Dresdner Residenzschloss. It is now part of the Dresden State Art Collections.

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