Sisi Museum Vienna

Guten Tag aus Wien!

Greetings from Vienna!

Surprise! You thought we were going to Germany, but we tricked you and decided to spend a week exploring Austria on our way to Germany. As always, a new country a new keyboard, so please bear with us. That request extends to spelling mistakes ;-)!

After leaving Budapest at 5am …

Another beautiful day, but it was pretty breezy today. While I hate wind, today I didn't mind having it cool me down from the heat. We did get out of the wind in the morning by touring the Hofburg Palace. There we saw the Imperial Silver Collection, Imperial Apartments, and Sisi Museum. More sites of how the rich dynasties lived and operated. The …

Vienna - Austria is really growing on me! I have a feeling it might be my favorite country by the time my trip is through. Cinque Terre is still my favorite place, but Innsbruck is a very close second! Austrians are so nice, the cities are well maintained, the countryside is gorgeous, and I've felt very comfortable and relaxed the whole time. Too …

Well, I made it! I'm here, in Vienna, but it hasn't completely settled in yet that I'm in Europe. I can officially say that I am very much more confident in flying after surviving my first flight longer than six hours--8 hours and 10 minutes. Within 30 seconds of finding my seat, I was asked to switch seats so that a woman could sit next to her …

I did not sleep well. First, the walls were extremely thin and I could hear everything the people in the next room over were saying. I kept thinking that they were in my room, which was a bit unnerving while trying to fall asleep. Second, I woke up an hour too early because I didn't set my clock back. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that until …

Today was a bit warmer; especially by early afternoon when the sun came out, so I even got to wear my sunglasses!

On the itinerary today was Stephansdom (St Stephens Cathedral), Sachertorte cake, and the Hofburg Complex (Apartments/Sisi Museum/Silver Collection). I tried to go see the Spanish Riding School, but to see the demonstrations, …

... been hoaxed by the Habsburg's. Then in a dimly lit corner we came upon what we'd been looking for all along, the Sisi Museum. Sisi was Elisabeth's nickname. It was in the museum that the secrets would be revealed.    ...

... on.. BTW, the cheapest tickets were 29 Euro..   At the Imperial Palace, we were going to purchase tickets to see the Sisi Museum and Imperial apartments, and saw that they had an English tour at 3.30, an hour and a half away, so decide ...

... of our battle wounds, we went back to the Hafburg to go to Imperial Apartments. First, however, was the Sisi Museum and Silverware Museum which were interesting and provided a lot of history on Kaiser Frederick Josef and his empress ...

... 1 m square! Once we finished on the lower floor, we headed upstairs to the Imperial Apartments themselves and the Sisi museum. We weren’t allowed to take pictures upstairs which sped things up considerably! The museum had an interesting collection ...

... of silverware, candles, table ornaments, bowls, plates - jeez, it's unending. Then you walk up some stairs to see the Sisi museum. Empress Elisabeth was pretty and popular with the people, and was assasinated around the turn of the century. The museum ...

... used in the imperial household and for state occasions - not the stuff you can find in Ikea.  The Sisi Museum is dedicated to Elizabeth, Empress of Austria as the wife of Franz Joseph 1, who hated court life, probably did not like her husband very ...

... shocked!) and the Hofburg (the palace of the Austrian ruling family, the Hapsburgs) where we went through the palace and the Sisi museum.  Sisi was Elizabeth... the young bride (and cousin) of the Emperor.  She was not happy in her marriage (to ...

... ;   We walked along the streets until we came to the regular Hapsburg palace. The Spanish riding school was there and the Sisi Museum. The Spanish riding School is a very famous horse-riding school that has very fancy shows of horse-riding, no jumps ...

... , which for centuries was the center of the Habsburg empire. The entry ticket entitled us to visit the Imperial Apartments, the Sisi Museum and the Imperial Silver Collection and there were audioguides to go with it. Godwin didn't want to listen to any ...

... in a display case. It looks like a blunt knife but is (I think) a file that people use to open envelopes. The Sisi museum basically just showed her life, with replicas of gowns she wore and actual articles of clothing and personal items. The Hapsburgs ...