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The Japanisches Palais (English: "Japanese Palace") is a building in the
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History

Built in 1715, the palace was extended from 1729 until 1731 to house the Japanese porcelain collection of King Augustus the Strong, which is now part of the Dresden Porcelain Collection. More Japanese crafts collections were intended to be housed there. Despite this intention, it was never used for the collection and instead served as the Saxon Library. The palace was designed by architects Pöppelmann, Longuelune and de Bodt. The Japanisches Palais was damaged during the allied bombing raids on 13 February 1945. The restoration of much of the building and its gardens was completed in the 1980s by the French government. Today, it houses three museums: the Museum of Ethnology Dresden, the State Museum for Pre-History (''Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte'') and the Senckenberg Natural History Collection (''Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden'').


See also

* List of Baroque residences


References


External links


Japanisches Palais Homepage
of the Dresden State Art Collections
Japanisches Palais at Dresden website
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