Today’s main excursion was yet another palace! Today we visited Nymphenburg Palace. I can't keep track of how many palaces I have visited in Europe so far but I do know I absolutely love them! I especially love the highly decorated royal palaces like yesterday's Munich Residenz.
The Baroque palace was built in 1675 and is one of the largest palaces by size. It is made up of 6 different smaller palaces. The first one we visited was the main palace called Schloss Nymphenburg. The main room was very bright and the ceiling was covered with a large painting. Gold ornaments decorated the walls with chandeliers hung from the ceiling.
The second area we visited was Marstallmusem. Marstallmuseum was so cool! It was filled with all of the royal transportation vehicles. There were many large golden chariots straight out of a fairytale. They were so highly decorated its weird to think that they would be covered in mud and dust at times. The museum also contained sleds of all sizes for the winter months. Turns out the horses would wear a coat covered in bells which is where we get sleigh bells from.
The next palace we visited was Amalienburg which was an old kitchen. Badenburg was a bathhouse and there was even a viewing platform from which you could watch the royals take baths. Pagodenburg was a palace that was filled with the blue and white Delft tiles that were covered with Chinese motifs. The last palace of Magdaleneklause was a grotto chapel. The interior was created with stucco and shells and rocks were stuck on the walls to give it an underground feel. The palace grounds were huge and we spent a lot of time strolling through the gardens in between palaces. The actual manicured section of the gardens was small and most of it was just open land.
For the rest of our day we hung out at the Kunsthalle Munchen museum. The exhibit that was currently on display was a flower power gallery. There were many beautiful displays of flowers but also the history of how flowers have been depicted in art and portrayed throughout history. It covered everything from flowers in biblical settings to how our desire for flowers has led to the production of harmful chemicals being sprayed on tulips to make them last longer. At the end of the exhibit there was a beautiful display of dried flowers hanging from the ceiling.
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