Nymphenburg Palace tickets: €16 in winter, €20 in summer, a timed palace slot and four pavilions that close in October

💡 The Short Version: The all-in ticket is €16 from 16 October to 31 March and €20 from 1 April, at the operator’s shop ticketshop-schloss-nymphenburg.de or at the desks. In winter it covers the palace and the Marstallmuseum, because the four park pavilions are closed. Palace tickets are timed, and you can enter up to an hour after your slot. In winter the palace is open 10:00 to 16:00, with last entry at 15:30. The park is free all year. The Lacquer Cabinet is closed until the end of 2027. It is closed on 1 January, 9 February 2027, 24, 25 and 31 December. Or book a tour: the palace and carriage museum tourad is from €67 (GetYourGuide) and includes fast-track tickets.

Tickets and prices

Prices are the adult rate from the Bavarian Palace Administration, which runs the palace. The genuine channels are its own ticket desks and its online shop. Searches for Nymphenburg tickets also return sites with the palace’s name in their web addresses that are not the operator.

• The all-in ticket is the cheaper way in. The palace and the Marstallmuseum bought separately cost €18, and with the pavilions €24.
• Palace tickets are timed. The time is the first moment you may enter, and entry is possible up to an hour later. Once you are in, there is no limit on how long you stay.
• Online tickets can be bought up to the day before your visit. The desks sell a limited number each day, so on a busy day slots can be full and waiting times long.
• The pavilion ticket is sold at the palace and Marstall desks and online, not at the pavilions.
• Audio guide: €3.50, in 10 languages including English. You can book it with your ticket and collect it at the palace ticket office.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s prices are its lowest “from” prices. It lists a Nymphenburg entry ticket from a third-party seller, and the tour below includes entry.

Tours worth paying for

The palace sells an audio guide, and a live guide comes with a tour that costs more than three times the ticket. The price is the lowest “from” price, per person.

Palace and carriage museum tour

From €67 · 2 hours · 4.9 stars from 74 reviews

Munich: Fast-Track Nymphenburg Palace & Carriage Museum Tourad is run by Rosotravel in English. It spends about an hour and a half in the palace and half an hour in the Marstallmuseum, and the listing says it includes fast-track tickets to both. It meets at Nördliche Auffahrtsallee 69, at the palace. An online palace ticket already avoids the desk queue, so the extra money buys the guide. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

A coronation coach of King Max I Joseph, built in Munich in 1818, in the Marstallmuseum. Photo: Wistula, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

What to see

Nymphenburg began as a summer residence, laid out from 1664 for Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife Henriette Adelaide after the birth of their heir, Max Emanuel. It reached its present size over the next century, and King Ludwig II was born in the palace on 25 August 1845.

Nymphenburg Palace seen along the central canal. Photo: Rufus46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

1. The palace. The Great Hall, decorated under Elector Max III Joseph by Johann Baptist Zimmermann and François Cuvilliés, is the rococo showpiece. The north and south apartments lead off it, the north side has Max Emanuel’s Great Gallery of Beauties, and the Queen’s Apartment holds King Ludwig I’s Gallery of Beauties and the bathroom of King Maximilian II. The Chinese Lacquer Cabinet is closed until the end of 2027.
2. The Marstallmuseum. More than forty coaches, sleighs and riding gear of the Wittelsbachs in the stables completed in 1740. The showpiece is the Coronation Coach of Emperor Karl VII, and the state vehicles of King Ludwig II are on show. The Nymphenburg porcelain museum is on the upper floor, with the figures of Franz Anton Bustelli.
3. The four pavilions (summer only). The Amalienburg is Cuvilliés’s rococo hunting lodge of 1734 to 1739, with a circular Hall of Mirrors at its centre. The Badenburg is a bathing pavilion of 1718 to 1722, with its pool in the basement. The Pagodenburg of 1716 to 1719 is chinoiserie in blue and white. The Magdalenenklause of 1725 to 1728 is built to look like a hermit’s ruin.
4. The park. Free, and laid out as a landscape garden by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell between 1804 and 1823 around a central canal. Gondola rides run on the canal from April to October in fine weather, booked separately at gondel-nymphenburg.de.

The Hall of Mirrors in the Amalienburg. Photo: Yelkrokoyade, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The guided tour spends an hour and a half in the palace and half an hour in the Marstallmuseum, so allow two hours for both on your own and more for the pavilions and park. The order that works: take the timed palace slot first, then the Marstallmuseum, and in summer walk the park to the pavilions.

What to skip: the Marstallmuseum on a short visit. The palace alone is €10 and holds the Great Hall and both galleries of beauties.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Last entry and last ticket sales are 30 minutes before closing. Nymphenburg is closed on 1 January, Shrove Tuesday (9 February 2027), 24, 25 and 31 December.
• The park opens at 6:00 and closes at 18:00 from November to March, 20:00 in April and October, and 21:30 from May to September. The other gates close half an hour earlier. The fountains usually run from Easter to mid-October, 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 16:00.
• Bags: nothing bulky inside the palace, with lockers for large bags and rucksacks. Food and drink are not allowed in the museum rooms.
• Dogs are not allowed in any building and go on a lead in the park. The park may be closed in storms of Beaufort 9 or more.
• Photographs: private use only, with hand-held cameras and no flash or tripod.
• Getting there: the palace is in the west of the city. Take the U-Bahn to Rotkreuzplatz and then a tram to Schloss Nymphenburg, or an S-Bahn to Laim and then a bus. Some S-Bahn trains have skipped Laim since 25 August 2026, and the works are expected to last until about mid-2028. There are about 450 free parking spaces.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving in the afternoon in winter. The palace shuts at 16:00 and its last entry is at 15:30.

The Residenz is the city-centre palace of the same family, and the €40 palaces ticket covers both. What to book in Munich has the closed days for every sight, and Munich City Pass or Munich Card says whether a pass covers the palace. BMW Welt and the museum and the Olympiapark are on the other side of the city. 3 days in Munich puts Nymphenburg on a morning of its own. For a bed nearby, see where to stay in Munich, and Munich public transport has the fares for the tram and U-Bahn.