Saturday was a wet wet day after a night of thunderstorms. So we decided to spend it indoors in museums. We visited the Hofsburg Palace which was the winter residence of the Habsburg dynasty. It was a huge palace and part of it is currently the sear of the President of Austria.
The first of the museums that we visited was the silver collection which housed the very grand and very vast cutlery, crockery and other tableware, kitchenware and household utensils that belonged to the Habsburg dynasty. The collection was magnificent and many pieces were extremely beautiful as well. Mummy, Papa and I took the tour and left DH and sunshine behind partly because DH is not interested in any kind of museums and partly because Sunshine would get bored.
The next museum was the Sisi museum, also housed in the Habsburg Palace. It depicts the story of empress Elisabeth who was a renowned beauty, but led a very tragic, reclusive life. There were several personal items on display - things right from her infancy to her death. The displays and the intelligent lighting in the museum captures the enigma of all accepts of her personality - an extremely beautiful empress who was a restless soul, a misfit in the imperial society, a rebel, a poet, a slave to her own beauty and finally a depressed, melancholic woman who withdrew from public and her own family. While I was fascinated by the museum I was happy to get out because it was a bit depressing.
The next museum that we visited were the imperial apartments, which were the actual rooms that were occupied by emperor Franz Joseph and empress Elisabeth. This felt like any ordinary museum especially after the Sisi museum which captured my imagination. The emperor lived in a quite spartan surrounnding as he was apparently not very interested in luxuries. The empress' rooms were slightly more luxurious and she even had a personal gym, but they were also not out of the world.
By the time we finished the tour of the three museums, the weather had cleared slightly and Sunshine had his nap on DH's lap. We drove to the Wiener Riesenrad which of one of the earliest Ferris wheels. By the time we reached there, it started drizzling again. So we couldn't do nothing much except some souvenir shopping. Sunshine got to take a ride on the banging cars with DH and it was time to retire for the day.
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| Hofburg Palace |
The first of the museums that we visited was the silver collection which housed the very grand and very vast cutlery, crockery and other tableware, kitchenware and household utensils that belonged to the Habsburg dynasty. The collection was magnificent and many pieces were extremely beautiful as well. Mummy, Papa and I took the tour and left DH and sunshine behind partly because DH is not interested in any kind of museums and partly because Sunshine would get bored.
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| An exhibit in the silver collection |
The next museum that we visited were the imperial apartments, which were the actual rooms that were occupied by emperor Franz Joseph and empress Elisabeth. This felt like any ordinary museum especially after the Sisi museum which captured my imagination. The emperor lived in a quite spartan surrounnding as he was apparently not very interested in luxuries. The empress' rooms were slightly more luxurious and she even had a personal gym, but they were also not out of the world.
By the time we finished the tour of the three museums, the weather had cleared slightly and Sunshine had his nap on DH's lap. We drove to the Wiener Riesenrad which of one of the earliest Ferris wheels. By the time we reached there, it started drizzling again. So we couldn't do nothing much except some souvenir shopping. Sunshine got to take a ride on the banging cars with DH and it was time to retire for the day.
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