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Virtual Tour: Art section 
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The former summer residence of the Coburg Dukes,
restored after extensive restoration measures,
lodges the collection of ducal art treasures since
1998, with precious pieces of furniture,
paintings, porcelain, traditional handicrafts and
a selection of weapons from four centuries. The
exhibits, which form part of the interior design,
illustrate in a lively way aspects of princely
life and collecting. Treasures of the collection
of furniture are, to take but a few examples, a
cylinder bureau, a multi-purpose table and a table
piano, one of only two examples, from the
classical period of work of David Roentgen, one of
the leading European cabinet makers of the 18th
Century. Unique in the world is the Ernestinian
welcome goblet, made out of four bulbous single
vessels, which the Nuremberger silver-smith Wenzel
Jamnitzer prepared in 1541 at the request of the
last Elector of the older Ernestinian line of the
whole House of Wettin, Johann Friedrich of Saxony.
The gilded silver table piece is one of the
earliest preserved works of Jamnitzer and the
oldest preserved piece of the Ernestinian silver
treasure.
Among the special features in the Castle of Callenberg are the exhibition of historical grandfather clocks and mantle clocks from three centuries. Particularly striking pieces are pendules with casings from leading French bronziers of the "Empire" period as well as a pillared and a pyramid clock from the end period of the furniture manufacture of David Roentgen.
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