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The Silberkammer VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
On display in the ground-floor Practical Information
rooms is a dazzling array of items – Map 4 D1 & 5 B3. State Apart-
gold, silver and the finest porcelain – ments (Kaiserapparte-ments), Sisi
that were once used at Habsburg Museum & Silberkammer:
state banquets. One of the highlights Michaelerkuppel. Tel 5337570.
is a 33-m long (100-ft) gilded bronze Open 9am–5:30pm daily (to 6pm
centrepiece with accompanying Jul & Aug). & 8 Sat & Sun.
∑ hofburg-wien.at Imperial
candelabra from around 1800. Treasury (Kaiserliche Schatz kam-
Visitors can also admire the mer): Schweizerhof. Tel 525240.
mid-18th-century Sèvres dinner Open 9am–5:30pm Mon &
service that was a diplomatic gift Goblet from the Laxenburg Service Wed–Sun. & 7 9 =
from Louis XV to Maria Theresa. (c. 1821) ∑ kaiserliche-schatzkammer.at

Elisabeth’s Gymnastic
Equipment
The Empress was a fitness
enthusiast, and the bars
at which she exercised
are still in place in her
dressing room.

7
I 8

. Imperial Dining Hall
The table is laid as it would have
been in Emperor Franz Joseph’s
day (see p34–5), in the room where
the imperial family used to dine.

Key
Franz Joseph’s State
Apartments
Elisabeth’s State Guide to Treasury Rooms
Apartments . Empress
Entering the Secular Treasury, Rooms 1–8
Alexander’s State Elisabeth
Apartments contain items from the Austrian Empire (with Winterhalter’s
Sacred Treasury Room 5 commemorating Napoleon). Rooms portrait of the
9–12 exhibit treasures from the Holy Roman empress (1865)
Secular Treasury
Empire, while the Burgundian Inheritance is with stars in her
Sisi Museum displayed in Rooms 13–16. Rooms I–V, furthest hair hangs in the
Non-exhibition space from the entrance, house the Sacred Treasury. Sisi Museum.

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