Imperial Furniture Collection

A lesser-visited museum but a gem nonetheless, the Imperial Furniture Collection is a depot (its German name is in fact Hofmobiliendepot) that stores and displays 165,000 pieces of furniture and decorative and functional objects. The Hapsburg royalty owned multiple palaces, and while many of them are open to the public today, none have been kept intact fully furnished. Instead, the pieces that made up the living and entertaining spaces for the emperors and their families are here, and range from the regal (gilded thrones) to the mundane (coat hangers). Seeing the objects on show in this museum in many ways offers a more realistic look into the lives of the famed Hapsburg royals.