Part of the palace was converted into a museum. The bottom floor of what used to be the stables, housed the carriages, sleighs and trappings of the 4 generations that lived here. The coronation carriages were an interesting insight into each generation. The first one was bold but more simple... and by the fourth was very elaborate. This little chair was for the children of the palace to be pulled from one end to the other either by a small pony or a large dog. The palace was big, but I could see this being very useful on the 88 square miles worth of cultivated grounds.
Here you see the modern innovations melded with tradition. This was Ludwig II's daily use carriage. That was just before the car was invented, but you could see all the more modern suspension and the fold down top here.
One of the Kings opened up a porcelain studio to create settings for the palace. It became a porcelain school with the expansion from his son. It was THE place to come learn to create and paint porcelain items. Eventually it became a way of earning income as the royalty began over extending it's budget. The entire upstairs of the stables was filled with beautiful porcelain settings and scenes. They even had some paintings by some rather famous people.... Janelle and I were looking at the vases in one case and I looked up and realized that I recognized the painting above. It was a Raphael. The one next to it was familiar too, but I couldn't remember the artist.
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