Munich Residenz tickets: €20 for everything, no timed slot, and a theatre that opens in the afternoon

💡 The Short Version: One €20 ticket covers the museum, the Treasury and the Cuvilliés-Theater, at the operator’s shop ticketshop-residenz-muenchen.de or at the desks. The museum and Treasury are €15 and the museum alone €10. There is no timed slot: the online ticket has no entry time and goes straight to the entrance, so “skip the line” buys nothing here. From Monday 26 October the palace opens 10:00 to 17:00, and the theatre opens 14:00 to 17:00 from Monday to Saturday. It is closed on 1 January, 9 February 2027, 24, 25 and 31 December. Or book a tour: the guided Residenz tour with museum entryad is from €65 (GetYourGuide), and the city’s own English tour is €22 on Fridays at 11:00, with the museum ticket bought separately.

Tickets and prices

Prices are the adult rate from the Bavarian Palace Administration, which runs the palace, and apply in 2026. The genuine channels are its own ticket desks and its online shop. Searches for the Residenz also return sites with the palace’s name in their web addresses that are not the operator.

The Königsbau front on Max-Joseph-Platz, with the monument to King Max I Joseph; the Treasury is on its ground floor. Photo: Digital cat, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Children and teenagers under 18 enter free, and so do pupils over 18 with a school ID. Reduced tickets need the original proof at the door.
• Payment at the desks: cash or card. The all-in ticket and the theatre ticket are sold at the desk in the theatre, and the museum desk and the online shop sell the rest.
• Audio guides come with the museum and Treasury tickets, free, in English and eight other languages.
• Online tickets cannot be returned or exchanged.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s prices are its lowest “from” prices. It sells no entry ticket for the Residenz, only guided tours and concerts.

The €40 palaces ticket

The Bavarian palaces multi-day ticket is €40 for one person (€80 for two adults and their children under 18) and lasts 14 days. It covers more than 40 state sights, among them the Residenz, Nymphenburg, Schleißheim, Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and the Nuremberg Imperial Castle, and not Hohenschwangau. The Residenz and Nymphenburg together cost €40 in summer, so it pays from the third palace. You still collect a free ticket at each desk, and at Neuschwanstein, Nymphenburg, the Residenz, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee you can book that free ticket online. The pass is sold at the palace desks and posted from the online shop, and overseas orders can take several weeks, so buy it at the Residenz desk on your first day.

Tours worth paying for

The tours are about the guide, because the entry ticket is the same one you can buy yourself. Prices are the lowest “from” prices, per person.

The city’s own English tour

€22 · 2 hours · Fridays at 11:00

München Tourismus runs a guided tour through the Residenz in English every Friday at 11:00. Admission is not included: buy the €10 museum ticket, the one that does not include the Treasury or the theatre, at the desk or online first. Nobody joins without a valid ticket, and large bags go in the paid cloakroom.

Guided Residenz tour with museum entry

From €65 · 2.5 hours · 4.8 stars from 203 reviews

Munich: Residenz Palace and Hofgarten Skip-the-Line Tourad is run by Rosotravel for groups of 1 to 24 in English. The guide leads through more than 100 rooms of the museum, the courtyards and the Hofgarten. The entry covers the museum only, so the Treasury and the theatre are extra. The guide meets you at Residenzstraße 12, opposite Max-Joseph-Platz, and latecomers cannot join. The “skip-the-line” is the same straight-to-the-door ticket you can buy for €10, so what you pay for is the guide. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Classical concert in the Court Chapel

From €39 · 1 hour · 4.6 stars from 451 reviews

Munich: Classical Concert in Residenz Palace’s Court Chapelad is an hour of classical music in the old court chapel, where Mozart is said to have played for the Bavarian elector. It has to be booked at least 10 hours ahead, the listing says it is likely to sell out, and it is wheelchair accessible. Concerts in the Cuvilliés-Theater are listed on the palace’s own events page.

What to see

The Residenz was the seat of the Wittelsbach rulers, first as dukes, then as electors and, from 1806 to 1918, as kings. It has been a museum since 1920. Its rooms are numbered, and the audio guide follows them.

The Antiquarium in the Residenz, a 66-metre Renaissance hall lined with antique busts. Photo: Wilfredor, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

1. The Antiquarium (room 7). The oldest surviving room of the Residenz, built from 1568 to 1571 for Duke Albrecht V’s collection of antique sculpture. At 66 metres it is one of the largest Renaissance halls north of the Alps. Its vault has 16 paintings from Peter Candid’s workshop and 102 views of Bavarian towns and castles.
2. The Ancestral Gallery and Porcelain Cabinet (rooms 4 and 5). Over 100 portraits of the Wittelsbachs are set into the gilded panelling, laid out from 1726 for Elector Karl Albrecht. The cabinet beside it was the family’s treasury before it became a porcelain display.
3. The Imperial Staircase and Imperial Hall (rooms 110 to 112). The staircase of about 1616 leads to the Imperial Hall, hung with tapestries by Hans van der Biest. The three central ceiling paintings burned in the war and are reproductions.
4. The Rich Rooms (rooms 55 to 62). The rococo state apartment that François Cuvilliés laid out from 1730, with the Audience Chamber and the Green Gallery, which carries over 70 paintings. Much of the stucco and panelling was renewed after the 1944 bombing.
5. The King’s Building (rooms 72 to 127). Leo von Klenze’s palace for Ludwig I, finished in 1835, with the king’s rooms themed on Greek poetry and the queen’s on German poets.
6. The Treasury (ten rooms). More than 1,200 pieces of jewels, goldwork, enamel, crystal and ivory, with the crowns and regalia of the Bavarian kings. It is on the ground floor of the King’s Building.
7. The Cuvilliés-Theater. A court opera house of 1751 to 1755 where Mozart’s Idomeneo premiered in 1781. The building was destroyed in 1944, but its carved boxes had been taken out in 1943 and were rebuilt into the palace by 1958.

The auditorium of the Cuvilliés-Theater. Photo: AuHaidhausen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

Allow about two hours for the museum, which is the length of the guided tours, and an hour for the Treasury. The order that works: museum and Treasury in the morning, then the theatre when it opens at 14:00 (10:00 on Sundays).

What to skip: the €20 ticket, if you will not be there when the theatre opens. Buy the €15 museum-and-Treasury ticket instead. Any “skip-the-line” ticket is also a skip.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Closed on 1 January, Shrove Tuesday (9 February 2027), 24, 25 and 31 December. The theatre’s last entry is one hour before closing.
• Bags: nothing of 35 x 30 x 12 cm or larger, no rucksacks and no bulky objects. The cloakroom is free and supervised.
• Food and drink: none in the museum except water in plastic bottles up to 0.5 litres. There is no café in the palace.
• Photographs: allowed for private use, with no flash or tripod.
• Prams do not go into the rooms, and the palace lends buggies free. Dogs are not allowed; on a lead they may enter the Hofgarten.
• Getting there: the palace is on Residenzstraße. The nearest stops are Marienplatz (S-Bahn and U-Bahn), Odeonsplatz (U-Bahn and bus) and Nationaltheater (tram). There is no visitor car park, and the Nationaltheater’s underground garage charges.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving after the theatre has closed. It opens only from 14:00 on most days, and its last entry is an hour before closing.

Nymphenburg is the other Wittelsbach palace and is covered by the same €40 ticket. The Alte Pinakothek holds the family’s old-master collection, and Marienplatz and the Glockenspiel is a short walk away. What to book in Munich has the closed days for every sight, Munich City Pass or Munich Card says whether a pass covers the palace, and Munich walking tours compares the guided walks. 3 days in Munich places the Residenz in a plan. For a bed nearby, see where to stay in Munich, and Munich public transport has the fares. The courtyard holds a free Christmas village from 16 November to 22 December 2026: see Munich Christmas markets 2026. The Munich old town walk passes the palace’s front on Max-Joseph-Platz, and the English Garden walk starts through the Hofgarten beside it.