The museum's most valuable carriage -- the gilded Imperial state coach -- was once hauled across the Alps to Milan and taken to Budapest for the 1867 coronation of Empress Elisabeth. But it nearly ...

Austria - Peter Urdl, the 63-year-old former mayor of tiny Thal, Austria, has gotten used to the phone calls from California every few weeks at midnight or 3 a.m. his time. He wouldn't dream of ...

A carriage of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (known as Sisi) , originally the Milan coronation carriage of Napoleon 1, is seen on display at the Imperial Carriage Museum at Schoenbrunn’s palace in ...

The Wien Museum on Karlsplatz is set to reopen in December 2023 after a comprehensive four-year ... Austria’s Wien Museum Reopens. BySandra ... a magnificent 19th century mayoral carriage, ...

The very first car developed by Ferdinand Porsche was not a sleek speed machine. The wooden-framed, open-carriage P1 was recently unearthed in a garage in Austria where it sat for more than 100 years.

A full-color catalogue has been published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with essays by Dr. Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner, director of the Imperial Carriage Museum, Vienna; Dr. Franz Pichorner ...

Austria blends old and new seamlessly, and the result is intoxicating. From imperial palaces gilded in gold to holograms of a Mozart opera, here are 12 reasons why you need to make Austria your ...

“We want Wien Museum to become a meeting place, a living room for everyone,” says its director Matti Bunzl who spent 25 years working in the US museum sector before returning to Vienna.

A long-lost carriage once used almost daily by Austria's longest-serving monarch Franz Joseph for his commute from the Schoenbrunn palace to his office in central Vienna has gone on display after ...

The museum's most valuable carriage -- the gilded Imperial state coach -- was once hauled across the Alps to Milan and taken to Budapest for the 1867 coronation of Empress Elisabeth. But it nearly ...