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Large Rosa Room
Landscape scenes of Switzerland
and northern Italy by Joseph
Rosa give this room its name.
The paintings are surrounded
by Rococo gilded panels.

Breakfast Room
The imperial family’s
breakfast room has white
wood panelling inlaid with
appliqué floral designs
worked by Maria Theresa
and her daughters.

The Blue Staircase (so-called due to its
original decorative scheme) leads to the
entrance for guided tours of state rooms.

Maria Louisa and the
Room Guide King of Rome
The state rooms open to the public After Napoleon’s fall from power,
are on the first floor. The suite of rooms his young son by his Austrian
to the right of the Blue Staircase were wife Maria Louisa was kept a
occupied by Franz Joseph and Elisabeth. virtual prisoner in Schönbrunn
Two galleries divide these from rooms Palace. In 1832 at the age of 21,
in the east wing, which include Maria after a lonely childhood, he
Theresa’s bedroom and rooms used by Portrait of Napoleon died of consumption in what
Grand Duke Karl. Two guided tours, the is known as the Napoleon
Imperial and the Grand Tour, take Room. He was called the Duke
visitors through several rooms.
of Reichstadt, or the King of
Rome, and the Memorial Room
Key
contains his portrait as a five-
Franz Joseph’s apartments year-old and his effigy. There
Empress Elisabeth’s apartments is also a stuffed crested larch
Ceremonial and reception rooms under a glass dome; the unhappy
boy claimed that he never had
Maria Theresa’s rooms a single friend in the palace
Grand Duke Karl’s rooms Portrait of Maria Louisa apart from this bird.
Non-exhibition space

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