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EXPERIENCE THE EMPRESS ELISABETH with this unique combo ticket for the Imperial Carriage Museum and in the Imperial Treasury.
The myth of Empress Elisabeth continues unabated to this day. Her beauty, and especially her character and ambitions continue to fascinate us. With this new combined ticket, you can discover the empress in her private world and experience the court of the Habsburgs, the imperial family Sisi joined when she married Emperor Franz Joseph.
The Imperial Treasury Vienna takes you on a journey through a thousand years of history and secrets, full of discoveries and insights, to see symbols of power and myths.
A journey to the Burgundian inheritance, the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire – and especially to the imperial glory of the House of Habsburg. Experience the Empress Elisabeth: The collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna house a number of souvenirs and mementos of Empress Elisabeth.
The Imperial Treasury (in Hofburg Palace) presents sumptuous artefacts that reflect a thousand years of European history in which members of the House of Habsburg played a prominent role. One of them was Elisabeth, the wife of the Emperor of Austria and the King of Lombardy-Venetia, the Queen of Hungary, and the mother of a crown-prince. Following her assassination in Geneva in 1898, she, too, symbolically joined this historical procession when the key to her sarcophagus was deposited in the Imperial Treasury and became an integral part of it.
Elisabeth was also High Protectress of the Order of the Starry Cross, a Catholic order for noble ladies, following in the footsteps of earlier pious empresses. Four precious pieces of jewelry that once belonged to her bear witness to imperial pomp and circumstance.
In the Imperial Treasury we encounter the Empress in her political-official role and initially this is also the case in the Imperial Carriage Museum, which houses the elegant carriages she rode in on the way to her wedding in Vienna and her coronation in Budapest.
But here we also encounter the private Sisi. Imperial weddings, births and deaths were always public spectacles, but we can still guess at the happiness and the sadness experienced by the human being behind the official veil.
Her only son’s charming children’s carriage is juxtaposed with the mourning robe she may have worn for the funeral of Crown-Prince Rudolf.
Rare private everyday objects and spectacular clothes document her status as an international fashion icon, one of the ways she expressed her individuality. But it is in Elisabeth’s love of riding, which afforded her treasured moments of carefree informality, that we can glimpse the private Sisi. Her life ended in tragedy; following her assassination, the imperial hearse transported the Empress to her final resting place.
MEETING POINT INSTRUCTIONS:
Carriage Museum: Schönbrunn Palace, 1130, Austria
To reach the museum from the Westbahnhof.
Take subway train U3 to the Volkstheater station.
To reach the museum from the Hauptbahnhof.
Take street car D to the Burgring/Kunsthistorisches Museum stop.
Public transportation
U2, U3, D, 1, 2, 2A, 57A
Imperial Treasury: Schweizerhof, Hofburg, 1010 Wien, Austria
To reach the museum from the Westbahnhof.
Take subway train U6 to the Längenfeldgasse station, then change to subway train U4 to the Hietzing station.
To reach the museum from the Hauptbahnhof.
Take street car 18 to the Margaretengürtel station, then change to subway train U4 to the Hietzing station.
Public transportation
U4, 10, 58, 60
Audioguide languages
Carriage Museum: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian - From 2€
Imperial Treasury: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Ukrainian - From 5€
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