Gruness Gevelbe Museum

The Gruness Gevelbe Museum, founded in 1723 by August the Strong and located in the western wing of the Dresden Palace-Residence, presents to the attention of visitors the famous collection of jewels - the princely treasury of the Wettins, which covers the period from the Renaissance to Classicism.

Grünes Gövelbe is the historical core of the State Art Collections of Dresden, from which various individual museum collections stand out. Europe’s richest collection of jewels is called the “Green Vaults”, whose columns, now closed by mirrors, were once painted malachite green.

There are 9 rooms in the museum, each of which demonstrates unique and dissimilar jewels: in one room there are amber products, in another - from gold and silver, in the third - from ivory.

One of the most remarkable exhibits of the collection is the sculpture - "Moor with Emerald Stuff", created in 1724 by court jeweler Johann Melchior Dinglinger. The sculpture, 64 centimeters high, is made of pear wood and is decorated with many precious stones and details from a turtle shell.