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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...

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 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 ...