Emperor Franz Joseph Hat Museum
The Emperor Franz Joseph Hat Museum is an interactive museum situated in a 300-year-old monastic wine cellar. Alongside valuable collector's items in the display cases, the hat collection also features unusual models from the ‘good old days’. The collection focuses on hats from the time of Emperor Franz Joseph I, which marked a golden age of hat fashion in Vienna in terms of the variety of headgear worn by Vienna’s aristocratic society and of the magnificent uniforms of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
GUIDED TOURS OF THE MUSEUMS (6 PM-12 AM)
What sets these tours at the Emperor Franz Joseph Hat Museum and the Imperial and Royal Wine Treasury apart from traditional museum visits is that visitors can wear precious items from the hat collection and take a photo rather than just looking at the exhibits. This way, visitors can slip into the roles of personalities from Viennese high society of days gone by and are encouraged to participate in the charming social etiquette of the 19th century that originated at the imperial court.
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME
On the museum stage, children can experience ‘hand-kissing training’ in the charming etiquette of the imperial era.
