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Information for people with a handicap

Click here to go directly to the information for people with visual or hearing impairments.

 

 

Information for people with mobility impairment

Disabled parking

Near the Residenz you can find 5 disabled parking spaces in Maximilianstraße opposite house no. 8 and 2 parking spaces at Max-Joseph-Platz 2.

 

Disabled toilets

Residence Museum: At present there is no barrier-free toilet available due to building work. In an emergency the museum staff will enable you to use the disabled toilet in the neighbouring part of the building.

Cuvilliés-Theatre: Two barrier-free toilets

 

 

Courtyards of the Munich Residence

All courtyards of the Munich Residence are largely level and accessible without steps or connected to each other (floor covering: small and large stone paving, stone slabs).

 

Residence Museum and Treasury

Entrance

The ticket office and the museum shop are only accessible via several steps.

Interior

Please register – with the help of an accompanying person – at the museum ticket office or, if you have an online ticket, directly at the entrance.
Our staff will then take you to the upper floor in the lift (length: 157 cm x width: 147 cm, door width: 99 cm) or will accompany you directly to the Royal Palace (apartments of the king and queen, miniature paintings, princely tables, porcelain of the 18th and 19th centuries).

The following areas of the Residenzmuseum are accessible for people in wheelchairs or with walking disabilities:
Ground floor: Ancestral Gallery, Grotto Courtyard, Antiquarium (view from the princes' estrade)
Upper floor: Black Hall, East Asia Collection, Electoral Rooms, Charlotte Rooms, Treves Rooms, Imperial Hall, Four White Horses Hall, Stone Rooms, Guard's Hall, Reliquary Chamber, Rich Chapel, Rich Rooms, Papal Rooms

Unfortunately, the Treasury and the Nibelungen Halls are not barrier-free.

Please allow 2 to 3 hours for your visit to the Residence Museum! Last admission is 1 hour before closing time.

 

Cuvilliés Theatre

The Cuvilliés Theatre is barrier-free. A barrier-free entrance with a bell (height 85 cm) is located on the south-east side of the Fountain Courtyard (Brunnenhof).

 

 

Court Garden

• Easily passable with few inclines

• Path surface: asphalt (Hofgartenstraße) and paved gravel

• Seats available

• The pavilion in the centre of the Court Garden can be reached and crossed without barriers.

• The arcades can be reached barrier-free from the footpaths on Odeonsplatz; there are thresholds at the transition from the arcades to the Court Garden (approx. 5 cm).

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Information for the visually impaired

• No guidance system for the visually impaired available

• Residence Museum / Treasury: Audio guide in several languages available

• No regular guided tours

• A tactile model of the Munich Residence in front of the main entrance at Max-Joseph-Platz enables visually impaired people to get a better idea of the shapes, structures and dimensions of Germany's largest urban palace complex.

  The bronze tactile model, measuring 140 x 75 cm on a scale of 1:400, shows a bird's eye view of the Residence with the Court Garden, Residence Theatre and Opera House.

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Information for the hearing impaired

• No induction loop for hearing aids available

• Written information available