Sisi Museum
- Address:Michaelerplatz 1, Vienna
- Hours:Open daily Sept - June 9am - 5:30pm, July - Aug 9am - 6pm
- Admission:€9.90 - 12.40 (adults; included in Hofburg admission)
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Sisi, or Empress Elizabeth, was the wife of Franz Josef 1 of Austria who she married when she was only 16. She was very beautiful and strictly maintained her 20 inch (50 cm) waistline! The headstrong girl from Munich gained a reputation for rejecting court etiquette and being a bit of free-spirit. But after the death of her daughter Sophie, Sisi became ill herself and began often going south for the warmth, separate from her husband, to write poetry and meet with a string of lovers. When her beloved son Crown-Prince Rudolf died tragically in a murder-suicide pact with his lover, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Sisi was inconsolable. In 1898, aged 60, in Geneva, she herself died, assassinated by a young anarchist, Luigi Lucheni.
Her life was like a soap opera and these days she is a cult figure. The Sisi Museum houses hundreds of her personal belongings as well as a history of her fascinating life.
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I would recommend this tour to anyone wanting to see the palace. Going in a tour means that you bypass the queuei. Which was 2 hours long. Make sure you give yourself the rest of the day at the palace and get the train back to town. They only give you about 40 minutes after the palace tour and you will need the rest of the day to see everything there
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This was a fantastic tour, especially the tour guide was outstanding: knowledgable, understandable very well prepared. The tour was well organized, always on time - even the hotel pick up. Our was a French - English speaking bus. Altough we go 3-4 times to Vienna per year, we got a lot of new information about the city and the history. I suggest it everybody-value for money.
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The Sisi Museum is located in the Imperial Palace (Hofburg). The closest metro station is Herrengasse on line U3. Or tram 1, 2, D and J, get off at stop Burgring. Buses 2A and 3A stop at Hofburg.
