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Albertina Museum Vienna: The Staterooms - Stateroom #7 The Hall Of Muses
September 2015
The Albertina Staterooms has one of the most interesting and varied collection of European art work. They consist of twenty palace state rooms spread over two floors of the original Albertina Palace and were restored in year 2000. The rooms were originally decorated French style the line of Louis XVI décor by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen. In 1822, Archduke Carl had them redecorated along Habsburg style, and what we see today is as closely restored to the way they would have looked back then.
The rooms contain many pieces of paintings, statues, pottery, furniture collected over a period of time. I only had time to visit the rooms on the ground floor, still I marvelled at the display of fine paintings, statues, pottery, etc. displayed.
There are hundreds of pieces of artwork and furniture within the rooms I visited. To ease viewing, I have separated them into several blogs separated into different rooms, this one are those from Staterooms #7. This room is the central stateroom and is larger than the others, and was used as a dining room and as a glamorous venue for soirées and balls. It is called the Hall of Muses because of the statues of the Greek Muses displayed there.
Click on the respective photos below for enlarged view:
<Staterooms #4-6 | Go to Staterooms Main | Staterooms #8-9>
Urania (Ourania) - The Muse of Astronomy.
Euterpe - The Muse Of Music
Polyhymnia - The Muse Of Sacred Poetry & Sacred Hymns.
Clio - The Muse Of History.
Melpomene - The Muse Of Tragedy.
Thalia - The Muse Of Comedy.
Calliope - The Muse Of History, she is the chief of the muses.
Terpsichore - The Muse Of Dance.
Erato - The Muse Of Love.
Mnemosyne - Mother of The Muses.
<Staterooms #4-6 | Go to Staterooms Main | Staterooms #8-9>
ALBERTINA MUSEUM
Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
Tel: +43-1-534830
Website: www.albertina.at | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlbertinaMuseum/
Hours: Mon-Tue: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wed: 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Thu-Sun: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
GPS: 48.204695, 16.368174
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TICKETS AND PRICES
| Adults |
€ 11.00
|
Vienna Card (Wien Karte) holders
|
€ 9.10
|
| Senior citizens (aged 60 and over) |
€ 9.00
|
Students with ID (up to age 26)
|
€ 8.00
|
| Unemployed persons with AMS card | € 7.00 |
Ö1 Club members with ID
|
€ 9.90
|
| Groups of 15 or more persons |
€ 8.00 each
|
Children and young people (younger than 19), Friends of the Albertina,
ICOM members |
no charge
|
| Visitors with special needs | € 7.00 |
| Visitors with the so-called Kulturpass |
no charge
|
| Guided tour fee | € 4.00 |
AUDIO GUIDE
| Adults | € 4.00 |
| Reduced, Groups of 3 or more persons | € 3.00 |
| Friends of the Albertina | € 2.50 |
(Note: Entry charges are at time of this blog, all charges subject to a 10% tax)
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