Gorgeous palace! The inside is apparently some vr experience thing and not like a normal castle…read moreexperience. They also have art and there's a few different exhibits. The outside was pretty but the whole garden is under construction so it's not the best right now.

What a neat historical place showing off some very old historical art work of Dresden Germany. The…read morecourt yards and gardens were absolutely spectacular to walk through and around the palace. Walking through and understanding culture hear was pretty fun and great experience.

A baroque castle under restoration, long history Frederick the Great of Prussia stayed in the house…read morein 1756 on the eve of the Battle of Lobositz, the battle between the Austrian and Prussian army which was the start of the Seven Year War, Information Centre, Neabyby, 800 metres, Borec Hill, an interesting volvanic type mound that is very popular tourist location in winter as sulphur smellin steam pours from the summit and spring flowers can be seen while lower down is thick snow.

Brewery or museum? The ages old question asked by sensible…read moretourists while planning travel itineraries. This place is a mixture of both... sort of. It's a beer museum! :) (Yay!!!) ... that doesn't serve beer. :( (womp, womp.) But it's actually still pretty cool... probably better if you can read the native language, though... but we still had fun. If you're really into brewing, you could spend 1.5-2 hours here perusing the many levels easy. If you're just there for the heck of it, 45 minutes it's probably good. Things to know: // It's not free, admission runs about the cost of what a movie would cost you. A fair price, I'd say. // It's more historic than novelty. // Not at all hipster-y like you'd expect. // It's set up kind of like a multi-level labyrinth with ups and downs at every wall so going through is never boring. // They have a whole big area at the end that's a children's playground with some beer-themed play things. Teachin' 'em young. Awesome. // SOME of the figures are animatronic and some are not. They bait you by showing you a bunch of mannequins that don't move, then BAM, you walk into a quiet room and all these robots start canoodling and making noises and drinking beer and it WILL scare the sh*t out of you, but once your heart stops beating out of your chest and your friends stop laughing at you, you'll appreciate the humor of it. // Has a lot of info about the town, the Czech Republic, and Europe in general, so even if you don't care about beer, you can enjoy the historic portions of the museum. // It's attached to a bar, so you can go get your booze fix after, should you so desire.

Excellent installation will give the newcomer a good sense of Silesian history -- how the region…read morehas overlapped with various political boundaries, religious majorities, and most of all, the sadness of what war and regime changes bring. (Be prepared to find yourself extremely moved, in the end. We both wept. We've all heard the names, but the area is lost to those of us who learned our history in places like the USA. Lots to read, but well worth it. Must read German (or Polish). Texts mesh well with artifacts, and all is well-organized. Probably one of the best museums of history/culture/geography that I can remember visiting anywhere. Beautiful setting in three early modern houses at the center of Gorlitz, in the Untermarkt. Really takes three or four hours to go through carefully. Accepts the ICOM card.

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I'm a watch nerd, so I wanted to really love this place. And I did, but I think it could have been…read morebetter. Starting with what worked, the museum presents a really exhaustive chronological timeline of the development of the watch industry in the town, completely with lots and lots of artifacts as examples - some truly impressive. Gorgeous hand finished work of art, marine chronometers that went to the North Pole, pilot's watches manufactured for WWII. You learn a lot about the founding personalities as well as the manufacturing firms involved, and the museum does a similarly good job of covering how the town and the industry worked through Soviet dismantling of the factories post WWII, operations behind the Iron Curtain, and the quartz revolution, before the more recent renaissance with super lux brands that I can only dream about. There is also a great audio guide - very detailed and worth listening to. I really liked the Glashütte Original sponsored exhibit on the ground floor showing how one of their more complicated watches worked - a projector shines on a round table that shows a sort of x-ray view inside the watch movement, highlighting which pieces are involved, how gears and levers move, etc. But that cool cutaway exhibit just made me notice how much "watch basics" are missing from this museum. To be fair, the museum is not selling itself as "how watches work," it's "watchmaking in this town." But I still feel like a little more explanation of the basics of how watches work could help people understand more of the exhibits, which lay on some fairly specific watchmaking terms. There is an upstairs room with a multimedia "glossary" - which would take hours to go through - but just a basic animation of how a movement goes together, what the wheels do, etc. You have to go a little out of your way to visit, and you need to like watches to want to visit, I think, but if that's up your alley, this is a great side trip, especially if you're already in the area. It's an easy drive from Dresden.

One of the hidden gems in the surroundings of Dresden. Went there on perfect day in touristy…read moreseason, and still saw like max 10 other people. Very beautiful castle that (best of all) has its own brewery as well! Wandering in the castle was nicer than in most other castles I've ever visisted around the central/eastern europe, since there wasn't much other people around. It was quiet. And romantic. So, I recommend to check it out with your girl/boyfriend and after the round in the castle, please try that beautiful beer in castle pub/restaurant. By train from Dresden it takes about an hour to get there.