The coronation coach
Entirely gilded and drawn by eight horses — Europe's largest and heaviest ceremonial carriage.
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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.
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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