The Cinderella exhibition at Moritzburg Castle

Why this castle and not another one

The film was shot here. That is the whole of it, and it is enough: for a large part of central and eastern Europe the story of Cinderella has looked like this building since 1973, and it is on television every December in several countries at once. The castle did not chase the association. It inherited it, and after a while it built a winter season around it.

What is in the rooms

• Original costumes from the production.
• Recreated film scenes, staged in the castle’s own rooms.
• Multimedia staging through the route.
• The original riding saddle Cinderella sat on — the real object, not a copy.

And on the outer staircase, where the shoe comes off in the film, a replica of the golden shoe. That is the single most photographed thing on the estate and it has a page of its own, because the question people arrive with is not what it is but what size it is.

The trade, stated plainly

The baroque exhibition runs 20 March to 1 November. The castle then shuts completely from 2 to 19 November. From 20 November to 28 February the building holds the Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel exhibition — Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella — at the same admission price, and while that is on, the baroque rooms are not part of the visit. A winter ticket and a spring ticket cost the same and buy different buildings. If you want the feather room and the antler dining room, you want a date before 1 November. If you want the film, you want a date after 20 November. There is no month that gives you both, and the three weeks in between give you neither. The calendar, with the winter closed days.

The castle sells its own admission at its own counter and on schloss-moritzburg.de. There is no Moritzburg entry ticket on GetYourGuide, so nothing on this site is a substitute for that counter. What the platform sells is the journey, and two of the six listings that reach Moritzburg carry a castle ticket inside the day: the guided day from Dresden and the private Prague car that pairs Moritzburg with the Zwinger.

Coming for the film, from Prague

The eleven-hour Prague day trip takes in Dresden and then Moritzburg, with an English-speaking driver, fuel, tolls and parking covered, around two hundred and fifty-one euros a person. It does not include any admission, so the castle counter is still yours to visit. Its one reviewer, a traveller from France in December 2025, wrote that Moritzburg Castle will delight all fans of the film — which is one person’s good day and worth reading as exactly that. The full review.

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