The museum is a former railway pavilion of Emperor Franz Josef located at the Hietzing station in Vienna. Currently, the imperial stop is a branch of the Vienna Museum. The living room in the pavilion was decorated with silk wallpapers and a monumental painting by Carl Moll, depicting a view of Vienna from a balloon at a height of 3000 meters.
The then pioneering architect Otto Wagner was commissioned to design new metro lines and station buildings, which remain a striking feature of the Vienna landscape to this day. On Wagner's initiative, a special pavilion was created for the emperor Franz Josef, his family and courtiers at the Hietzing station. Designed in a unique modern style and equipped with rich artouverné decoration in 1899. Franciszek Józef used the pavilion only twice.
In 2014, after extensive renovation and refurbishment, the court pavilion at the Hietzing station was reopened to the public.
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