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j State Apartments and The Silberkammer VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Treasury On display in the ground-floor Practical Information
rooms is a dazzling array of items – Map 4 D1 & 5 B3. State Apart-
The state apartments in the Reichskanzleitrakt (1723– gold, silver and the finest porcelain – ments (Kaiserapparte-ments), Sisi
30) and the Amalienburg (1575) include rooms occupied that were once used at Habsburg Museum & Silberkammer:
by Franz Joseph from 1857 to 1916, the apartments of state banquets. One of the highlights Michaelerkuppel. Tel 5337570.
Open 9am–5:30pm daily (to 6pm
Empress Elisabeth from 1854 to 1898 and the rooms is a 33-m long (100-ft) gilded bronze Jul & Aug). & 8 Sat & Sun.
where Tsar Alexander I lived during the Congress of centrepiece with accompanying ∑ hofburg-wien.at Imperial
candelabra from around 1800.
Vienna in 1815. The Imperial Treasury holds sacred and Visitors can also admire the Treasury (Kaiserliche Schatz kam-
secular treasures amassed during centuries of Habsburg . 10th-century Crown mid-18th-century Sèvres dinner mer): Schweizerhof. Tel 525240.
The insignia of the Holy
Open 9am–5:30pm Mon &
rule, including the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor, a Roman Empire includes service that was a diplomatic gift Goblet from the Laxenburg Service Wed–Sun. & 7 9 =
“unicorn” horn and religious objects. this crown set with from Louis XV to Maria Theresa. (c. 1821) ∑ kaiserliche-schatzkammer.at
enamel plaques
and cabochons.
Emperor Maximilian I
(c. 1500) Elisabeth’s Gymnastic
This portrait by Bernhard Equipment
Strigel hangs in the room The Empress was a fitness
containing Burgundian enthusiast, and the bars
treasure. Emperor at which she exercised
Maximilian married are still in place in her
Mary, Duchess of dressing room.
Burgundy in 1477. 16
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Cradle of the King
of Rome . Imperial Dining Hall
Maria Louisa gave this The table is laid as it would have
cradle, designed by the been in Emperor Franz Joseph’s
French painter Prud’hon, day (see p34–5), in the room where
to her son, the King of the imperial family used to dine.
Rome (see p177).
KEY
1 Entrance through the
Michaelerkuppel to State
Apartments and Silberkammer
KeyKey
2 Entrance to Treasuries
Franz Joseph’s State Franz Joseph’s State
3 Passage to Neue Burg and ApartmentsApartments
Heldenplatz Crucifix after Elisabeth’s State Elisabeth’s State Guide to Treasury Rooms
4 Sisi Museum Giambologna ApartmentsApartments . Empress
(c. 1590) Alexander’s State Alexander’s State Entering the Secular Treasury, Rooms 1–8 Elisabeth
5 Ticket office This type of crucifix, ApartmentsApartments contain items from the Austrian Empire (with Winterhalter’s
6 Entrance through the Kaisertor a Cristo Morto, can Sacred TreasurySacred Treasury Room 5 commemorating Napoleon). Rooms portrait of the
to State Apartments and be traced back to a Secular TreasurySecular Treasury 9–12 exhibit treasures from the Holy Roman empress (1865)
Silberkammer similar model by Empire, while the Burgundian Inheritance is with stars in her
7 Exit from apartments Giambologna which Sisi MuseumSisi Museum displayed in Rooms 13–16. Rooms I–V, furthest hair hangs in the
is in Florence. Non-exhibition spaceNon-exhibition space from the entrance, house the Sacred Treasury. Sisi Museum.
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