The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden has received the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund award for its ongoing restoration of Peter Paul Rubens's 17th-century painting 'The Boar Hunt'. The project involves removing discolored 19th-century varnish and undoing damaging 19th-century stabilization attempts that caused cracks in the wooden panel, aiming to reveal the work's original dynamism and palette.
The decades-long reconstruction of Dresden's Royal Palace (Residenzschloss), a project costing €400 million, is nearing completion after beginning in 1985. The palace, which was reduced to a burnt-out shell by Allied bombing in February 1945 and remained a ruin through much of East Germany's history, will see its final phases unfold from autumn 2024 through 2027. These include a new installation in the former picture galleries, the rebuilt Schlosskapelle (palace chapel) opening in November, a Rüstkammer installation in the ballroom in early 2026, the completion of the Grosser Schlosshof courtyard in 2027, and a new exhibit in the Gothic Hall chronicling the palace's history. The palace now houses major collections of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), including the Grünes Gewölbe, Kupferstich-Kabinett, and Rüstkammer.