What the Munich Residenz charges, who goes free, and what the tours include
The Bavarian Palace Administration publishes its own tariff for this address, and the tariff is the reason this site exists in the shape it does. There is no single Residenz ticket. There is a ticket for the Residence Museum, a ticket for the Treasury, a ticket for the Cuvilliés Theatre, a pair ticket for the first two and one ticket that covers all three. The prices sit in the table below, where they can be corrected when the operator changes them, and the shape of the thing is in the prose, where it will still be true next year.
The operator’s published tariff
Read off the Bavarian Palace Administration’s own admission page.
| Ticket | Regular | Reduced |
|---|---|---|
| Residence Museum | €10 | €9 |
| Treasury (Schatzkammer) | €10 | €9 |
| Cuvilliés Theatre | €5 | €4 |
| Museum + Treasury | €15 | €13 |
| All three together | €20 | €16 |
| Court Garden (Hofgarten) | Free | Free |
Three tickets, one address, and more than one door. The museum and the Treasury share an entrance; the theatre has its own, and so does the Court Church of All Saints (which door, and what you may carry through it).
The two savings, with the sums written out
Both combined tickets save exactly five euros against buying their parts one by one.
| Bought separately | Comes to | The combined ticket | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum + Treasury + Theatre | €10 + €10 + €5 = €25 | €20 | €5 |
| Museum + Treasury | €10 + €10 = €20 | €15 | €5 |
The saving on the all-three ticket is a saving when you use all three, so time it against the theatre’s clock. From Monday to Saturday, for most of the year, the theatre opens at 2 pm, while the museum and the Treasury have been open since morning. Buy the combined ticket for an afternoon, do the theatre last — or take the guided visit, which is timed around it (both timetables, season by season).
If your day at this address is a morning only, the pair ticket for the museum and the Treasury is the one that fits it, and it saves the same five euros as the bigger one. Take the all-three ticket when your visit runs past two in the afternoon, or on a Sunday or public holiday, or at any point between 1 August and 14 September, when the theatre opens in the morning like everything else. The theatre, and why its clock is different.
Who goes free, and what is included
The operator’s wording is that children under 18 receive complimentary admission, and a student over 18 with a valid card from a general or vocational school is treated the same way. Note what that is not: not a family rate, and not the reduced column of the tariff. It is no ticket at all, at all three parts, which means a household of two adults and three children under 18 pays for two.
Three more things at this address are included, and two of them are routinely paid for elsewhere:
- The audio guide. Included, and nine languages on the operator’s list: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Two of the three ticketed parts have one — the museum and the Treasury. The theatre has none, which is the room where a live guide adds most.
- The cloakroom. Free and supervised, and you will be using it: nothing from 35 x 30 x 12 cm upwards goes in, and neither does a rucksack or anything bulky. The bag rule, and where the counter is.
- The Court Garden. No ticket, no gate charge, not part of any of the three admissions. Its fountain machinery runs from April to October, daily between 10 am and 2 pm. The garden, free to walk.
You may also take pictures, which is not true everywhere in this country and is worth knowing before you pack. The operator permits photography and video for personal use, and rules out flash and tripods.
The annual and 14-day passes, and where to ask
The Bavarian Palace Administration sells an annual pass and a 14-day pass covering, in its own words, over forty of the most beautiful sights in Bavaria. Both would apply here. Both are worth asking about at the counter if this palace is one stop of several in the state.
Ask at the ticket counter, or on the administration’s own site, for the current price of either.
Two more things about buying at the desk: no advance reservation is needed for any of the three tickets, and a group of more than 25 has to divide before it goes in. What is worth booking ahead is the part that needs a date, which brings us to the part of this page most visitors arrive here looking for.
What the tours include, and what the desk sells
Worth knowing before you compare prices: of the sixteen listings in our catalogue for the Munich Residenz, none is a plain admission ticket on its own — the counter sells that to anyone who walks up to it, with no reservation asked for. Skip-the-line wording appears on several listings, always bundled with a guide, which is the way past the counter altogether.
What the listings add is company, with the tickets folded in. A licensed guide with skip-the-line tickets to all three parts in the price. A private version of the same for your party. A seat at an evening concert in one of the halls, bought as an evening, to pair with a daytime ticket for the rooms. A bus ticket that stops nearby, with admissions bought at each door. So the comparison a lot of readers arrive wanting to make — palace ticket against tour price — is not a comparison of two ways to do the same thing. One is the entry. The other is the entry plus somebody explaining what you are looking at, the theatre included, and the three doors sequenced.
Whether that is worth paying for depends on how you like to visit. The handset covers the two parts most people came for, in nine languages, and reads the rooms to you. The guided listings answer questions out loud, cover the theatre, and carry you through all three parts in one two-and-a-half-hour sequence — and every written review of the flagship one is five stars.
The three that hand you a guide with the admission attached, and the most-reviewed evening sold at this address:
The guided oneMunich: Residenz Palace and Hofgarten Skip-the-Line Tour
Or the other palaceMunich: Nymphenburg Palace or Residenz Guided Tour
Most-reviewed thing hereMunich: Classical Concert at the Residenz Palace
Full comparison of all sixteen, grouped by what each one hands over: every listing at this address. And if it is the music you are after rather than the rooms, the five concerts and the halls they use.
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Before you go: the hours, and the theatre’s 2 pm, which days everything here is shut, how long to allow, and how to reach Residenzstraße from the centre.
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Munich Residenz cost?
There is no single price, because there is no single ticket. The Residence Museum is about ten euros, the Treasury about ten, and the Cuvilliés Theatre about five. Take the museum and the Treasury together and it is about fifteen; take all three on one ticket and it is about twenty. Reduced rates apply to each. The exact figures, regular and reduced, are in the tariff table above, read off the Bavarian Palace Administration’s own admission page.
Is the combination ticket worth it?
It saves five euros against buying the three tickets one by one. Time it against the clock: the Cuvilliés Theatre opens at 2 pm from Monday to Saturday for most of the year, so take the all-three ticket for an afternoon and the pair for a morning-only visit — or take the guided visit, which carries all three and is timed around the theatre. Both timetables.
Do children pay to enter the Munich Residenz?
No. The operator’s wording is that children under 18 receive complimentary admission, and it applies at the museum, the Treasury and the theatre. Students over 18 holding a valid student card from a general or vocational school also enter free. The audio guide is included, in nine languages, for the museum and the Treasury.
Is the audio guide at the Munich Residenz free, and what does it cover?
It is included, and the operator lists nine languages for it: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Two of the three ticketed parts are covered, the museum and the Treasury; the Cuvilliés Theatre is not, which is where a guide adds most. What is waiting at the door.
How much is the Bavarian palaces annual pass?
The annual pass and the 14-day pass both cover what the administration calls over forty of the most beautiful sights in Bavaria, and both would include this palace. Ask at the ticket counter for the current price.
Do I need to book Munich Residenz tickets in advance?
No. The Bavarian Palace Administration asks for no advance reservation, and a group of more than 25 simply divides before going in. What people book ahead here is the part that needs a date: the guided visit with the tickets in its price, a private guide, or a concert seat. All sixteen, compared.