The permanent exhibition in the north wing of Dresden’s Royal Palace presents the surviving, magnificent vestments from the possessions of the Saxon electors, dating from around 1550 to 1650. This unique treasure trove of European fashion and textile history from the Renaissance and early Baroque has now been re-opened to the public after more than 80 years in storage and many years of conservation and restoration measures. This exhibition guide is the first work to do justice to a collection rich in silk, gold and silver. It covers all the rulers' robes on display, including complete costume ensembles, suits with doublet and trousers, ladies' dresses, and individual garments. There are also introductions to the many portraits, accessories and sumptuous armoury on display. Clothes make the man - clothes make politics: rulers' costumes and haute couture from the period 1550 to 1650

"Tracks to Exile" is book 1 of a contemporary crime action series starring the Authors fictional son Bill Peters as a strong but inevitably flawed male hero. The Author has pre written the next 4 books of the Tracks series which are currently being edited for publication in the near future so that the reader will have a series of five completed books. "Tracks of the Purple Camel" "Back Tracks" "Angel Tracks" and "Tracks from Tamworth to the Taliban" will follow Bill's rollicking fast paced adventures as he battles the baddies all over the world based from Australia and his original home of New Zealand. With the Author compared by some to the successful Aussie Author Robert G Barrett and his hero Les Norton the appeal is to both men and woman readers and the total literary works have been described by a significant Australian literary agent as "an accomplished work." In Book 1 we are introduced to Bill Peters as a young man with a tragic past and an uncertain future. He is inserted as an undercover agent into New Zealand's foremost criminal gang the Te Kuri (the dogs) and following the terrible conclusion of that operation he is sent to Australia. Once there Bill is caught in bed with the New South Wales Police Commissioners wife and is forced to run for his life from the corrupt commissioner and his forces. The fast paced tale takes Bill to Kalgoorlie to Perth and to Broome in Western Australia as he endures diverse adventures and seeks to avenge the deaths of those he most loved.

Die im Nordflügel des Dresdner Residenzschlosses eingerichtete Dauerausstellung stellt die aus dem Besitz der sächsischen Kurfürsten und Kurfürstinnen überlieferten Prunkgewänder der Zeit um 1550 bis 1650 vor. Dieser einzigartige Schatz europäischer Mode- und Textilgeschichte der Renaissance und des Frühbarock ist nach über 80 Jahren Deponierung und langjährigen Konservierungs- und Restaurierungsmaßnahmen wieder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Der Ausstellungsführer würdigt erstmals dieses an Seide, Gold und Silber reiche Ensemble. Er berücksichtigt alle ausgestellten Herrschergewänder, worunter sich vollständige Kostümensembles, Anzüge mit Wams und Hose, Damenkleider sowie einzelne Gewandstücke befinden, und stellt auch die dazu präsentierten Bildnisse, Accessoires und preziösen Prunkwaffengarnituren vor. Kleider machen Leute – Kleider machen Politik: Herrscherkostüme und Haute Couture aus der Zeit zwischen 1550 und 1650

The Kunstkammer in Dresden's Royal Palace houses a fascinating variety of collected objects from the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. It owes its unique collection of plain and ornate tools, for example, to the founder of the Kunstkammer, Elector August (1526-1586). They range from gardening equipment to goldsmithing, carpentry and ironworking tools and even to so-called Brechzeugen (tools for prising or breaking things open). In addition, the museum guide presents elaborately decorated art-room cabinets, two richly embellished Augsburg cabinets, tables inlaid with iridescent mother-of-pearl, precious board games, and musical instruments alongside filigree woodturned pieces, items of decorative art, and objects from distant cultures. Numerous previously unpublished masterpieces from the Kunstkammer in Dresden's Royal Palace