Three Nymphenburg tickets, booked in minutes
Choose your ticket
- Summer ticket (1 April to 15 October): the palace, the Marstallmuseum, the porcelain museum and the four park palaces
- Winter ticket (16 October to 31 March): the palace, the Marstallmuseum and the porcelain museum
- Palace ticket: the state rooms of the main palace
- Every ticket includes the Great Hall with its ceiling frescoes from the 1750s
- King Ludwig I’s Gallery of Beauties
- The bedchamber where King Ludwig II was born in 1845
- Children under 6 enter free with an adult
Opening hours
April to 15 October: daily, 9:00 to 18:00
16 October to March: daily, 10:00 to 16:00
Last admission: 30 minutes before closing
Closed: 1 January, Shrove Tuesday, 24, 25 and 31 December
Park palaces: closed from 16 October to March
Location
Schloss Nymphenburg, Eingang 1, 80638 München. The palace stands at the end of a long canal in the west of Munich. The Marstallmuseum and the porcelain museum are in the palace’s south wing, and the park begins directly behind the main building.
Good to know
- Pick the summer or winter ticket by the date of your visit. The park palaces are open from April to mid-October only.
- The palace admits visitors by time slot. You can enter up to one hour after the time on your ticket and stay as long as you like.
- Bring original proof for every reduced ticket. Staff check it at the entrance.
- Children under 14 need an adult with them.
- Large bags and rucksacks go in the lockers. Food and drink stay outside the rooms.
- Photos for private use are allowed without flash or tripod.
Explore the Palace Museums Park
Explore Nymphenburg
Nymphenburg Park
180 hectares of gardens behind the palace, free to enter
Dominique Girard laid out the Baroque garden from 1715. A century later Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell reshaped most of it into a landscape park, and the long central canal survived both designs.
Four small palaces stand among the trees. The Amalienburg, a hunting lodge built in the 1730s for Electress Maria Amalia, holds a circular Hall of Mirrors. The Badenburg, the Pagodenburg and the Magdalenenklause open with it from April to mid-October.
The fountains run from Easter to mid-October, from 10:00 to 12:00 and again from 14:00 to 16:00. Pumps installed in 1803 and 1808 still drive them.
Nymphenburg Park
180 hectares of gardens behind the palace, free to enter
Dominique Girard laid out the Baroque garden from 1715. A century later Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell reshaped most of it into a landscape park, and the long central canal survived both designs.
Four small palaces stand among the trees. The Amalienburg, a hunting lodge built in the 1730s for Electress Maria Amalia, holds a circular Hall of Mirrors. The Badenburg, the Pagodenburg and the Magdalenenklause open with it from April to mid-October.
The fountains run from Easter to mid-October, from 10:00 to 12:00 and again from 14:00 to 16:00. Pumps installed in 1803 and 1808 still drive them.
FAQ
For a visit between 1 April and 15 October, the summer ticket covers the whole complex, including the four park palaces. From 16 October to 31 March the park palaces are closed, and the winter ticket covers the palace, the Marstallmuseum and the porcelain museum. The palace ticket is for visitors who want the state rooms alone.
Yes. The palace admits visitors at a set entry time, and the number for each day is limited. Slots sell out on busy days, so book as soon as you know your date.
Allow about an hour for the state rooms and the Marstallmuseum. Add one to two hours if you want to walk through the park to the park palaces.
From 16 October to March the four park palaces, the palace chapel, the fountains and the Geranium House exhibition are closed. The state rooms, the Marstallmuseum and the porcelain museum stay open from 10:00 to 16:00.
Yes. A step-free entrance lies to the left of the main entrance, and a lift goes up to the state rooms. The ground floor of the Marstallmuseum is step-free and a lift reaches the porcelain museum. Staff set up mobile ramps at the Amalienburg on request.
How to get there
Take tram 17 or bus 51 or 151 to the stop Schloss Nymphenburg.
- By U-Bahn: ride to Rotkreuzplatz and change to the tram.
- By S-Bahn: ride to Laim and change to the bus.
From the stop, a walk of about ten minutes along the canal brings you to the palace.
Enter Schloss Nymphenburg, 80638 München in your navigation system. The palace has about 450 free parking spaces. Five spaces for disabled visitors lie about 200 metres from the ticket office.
The park rules ban bicycles inside the park, including pushed ones, so plan to leave your bike outside the gates. Dogs must stay on a short lead in the park and cannot enter the buildings.
Plan your day
A full day at Nymphenburg, in a sensible order
Begin with the state rooms at your booked time. From there, walk to the south wing for the coaches and the porcelain. In the afternoon, follow the park paths to the Amalienburg and time the walk for the fountains, which run again from 14:00. The Schlosscafé im Palmenhaus, in one of the park’s old glasshouses, is on the way back to the palace.