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Commissioned by Albrecht V, this Renaissance jewel was built between 1568 and 1571. Allegoric frescoes, grotesques, and Bavarian landscape scenes embellish the 69-m- (225-ft-) long barrel vault. The Antiquarium was restored between 1995 and 2000.

Built between 1751and 1755, this beautiful Rococo theatre by Cuvilliés the Elder is widely regarded as Europe’s finest.

The 16th-century Schatzkammer contains worked gold, porcelain, the Wittelsbach dynasty’s crown jewels, and many other treasures.

This elaborately stuccoed chapel was built by Krumpper in 1601–14.

You enter Kaiserhof through the northern Renaissance doorway; the southern doorway leads into the Mannerist Grottenhof. Brunnenhof has an octagonal shape. Apothekerhof is the largest courtyard, the Cuvilliés Theater courtyard the smallest.

With its ebony altar and silver bas-reliefs, Maximilian I’s private chapel (1607) is a prime example of Mannerist architecture.

Walk through the Rittersaal to reach this series of rooms done in the early Rococo style. The Reiche Zimmer, designed in 1730 by François Cuvilliés, and the Grüne Gallerie, are but two of the stunning rooms.

This museum, opened in 1970 in a wing of the Residenz alongside the Hofgarten, houses a fine collection of pieces from ancient Egypt and the Coptic period.

Here the largest coin collection in the world can be found, along with exhibits of weights and measures.

Bordered by formal flowerbeds and hedges, and shaded by linden trees, this Renaissance garden on the north side of the Residenz has an Italian air. The Temple of Diana, a small pavilion lined with seashells designed by Heinrich Schön the Elder, marks the centre of a network of paths, which criss-crosses the garden. To the east lies the Bavarian State Chancellery, a much-debated modern structure incorporating the ruin of the former army museum.