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Demel- und Marzipan-Museum
I., Kohlmarkt 14
535 17 17,
www.demel.at
Daily 10am-7pm
Here
the history of court bakery Demel (1786) is being told and special
pieces are being displayed. With several life-sized marzipan figures!
Kaiserliches
Hofmobiliendepot
VII., Andreasgasse 7
524 33 570,
fax 524 33 57-666
www.hofmobiliendepot.at
Tuesday-Sunday. 10am-6pm
Here
you can see how the emperors lived. This museum holds the original
furniture of the Habsburger from the Hofburg, Schloss Schönbrunn and
Schloss Belvedere. You find crown prince Rudolph’s cradle there, a
sitting group embroidered by Maria Theresia and her daughters, Sisi’s
furniture, and an Egyptian room.
The Kaiserliches Hofmobiliendepot was founded in 1747 by Maria Theresia
and was meant to preserve the Habsburger furniture. After being closed
down for five years because of renovations, it was recently reopened. It
is now three times as big as before and even more excessively equipped.
You also find examples there of more recent interior decoration, e.g. of
Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner.
Lipizzaner Museum
I., Reitschulgasse 2
533 78 11,
www.lipizzaner.at
Daily 9am-6pm
In the
former court pharmacy in the Stallburg a new museum has been arranged
where you can follow the history of the famous white horses through
several attributes and paintings. Moreover, through a window you can
watch the Lippizans during their dressage hours.
Museum Judenplatz
I.,
Judenplatz 8
535 04 31,
www.jmw.at
Su-Thu 10am-6pm, Fr 10am-2pm
Simon
Wiesenthal was the mainspring behind the idea of raising a monument on
this square for the Austrian victims of the Holocaust. At the Judenplatz
the memory of the persecution of the Jews is being kept alive by an
imposing monument, exhumations of the mediaeval synagogue, and a museum
about the mediaeval Judaism.
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