The coronation coach
Entirely gilded and drawn by eight horses — Europe's largest and heaviest ceremonial carriage.
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A museum inside the Schönbrunn grounds displaying what amounted to the imperial court's vehicle fleet: carriages, sleighs, saddles and coachmen's liveries, kept in the old stable building. The centrepiece is the imperial coronation carriage: an enormous, entirely gilded eighteenth-century coach drawn by eight white horses and used to crown Holy Roman Emperors. Its weight made it move extremely slowly, and that was the point — slowness was part of the ritual. Around it stand Sisi's black funeral carriage, court children's carriages, a gilded winter sleigh, and a collection of garments. The most human section shows the pram of the child who would become Austria's last emperor. The visit runs about an hour and folds naturally into a Schönbrunn day on a combined ticket.
Entirely gilded and drawn by eight horses — Europe's largest and heaviest ceremonial carriage.
Entirely black, it carried her body through Vienna in 1898 — the end of the story the Sisi Museum begins.
A horse-drawn court sleigh — a detail that shows how winter was actually lived in the palaces.
Schönbrunn Park, Vienna
Yes if your ticket already covers it and you have an hour left. If you're worn out after the palace and gardens, leave it — it is an indoor, quiet museum that asks for attention.
