Guided tour including armory and coin exhibition

Museum tour
City Festival

During this guided tour you will see the representative, authentically furnished rooms of the Baroque Arolsen Castle, residence of the Princes of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Interesting information about the building's history is provided, and exciting stories about the family history are told.

Restored frescoes by Carlo Ludovici Castelli with explanations of their symbolic meaning; Amsterdam tapestries – an authentic testament to courtly ceremony and life at the princely court; works by the sculptors Alexander Trippel, Christian Daniel Rauch, Bertel Thorwaldson, and Friedrich Volke; a collection of paintings by the most important representatives of the Tischbein dynasty of painters; entertaining and exciting stories about marriage politics and the Count of Gleichen; discounted admission with guest cards/spa card Bad Arolsen, MeineCardPlus, Sauerland SommerCard or Sauerlandcard Special exhibition "When the people of Waldeck made their own money"

Guided tour of the representative rooms of Arolsen Castle on the hour during opening hours. Duration approx. 45 to 60 minutes.

On the ground floor: Stone hall in baroque style, still used for concerts and e.g. wedding celebrations.

First floor: impressive staircase with expressive sculptures and frescoes

White Hall (banquet hall) with ancestral gallery and Flemish tapestries

Music salon (audience room) in Rococo style

White and red Empire salon authentically furnished with furniture by the court cabinetmaker Ferdinand Kaulbach and paintings by the Tischbein dynasty

Blue bedroom with the story of Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont and her sisters, who entered into dynastically interesting connections with European royal houses.  

Playroom with family cradle, dollhouse and peep box

Crown Prince's Room with set table around 1890

IGround floor: Visit the exhibition on the hunting and military history of the princely house using information folders (without a guided tour)

Appointment overview

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Edersee Marketing GmbH
Zur Sperrmauer 66
34549 Edertal

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Edersee Marketing GmbH

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