Funeral Museum Vienna - Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234

very interesting

The person at the desk was very rude

Ok.

Very interesting!

I thought the museum was bigger. Still, it is really beautiful, has a really dark atmosphere and teaches you a lot about the story of Vienna's funerals and the connection the city has with death.

The Viennese are said to have a special relationship with death. "The beautiful corpse" is not just an elaborate funeral. It is also an expression of an attitude to life: death is inevitable - so let's celebrate it. In the Bestattungsmuseum, more than 250 original objects and pictures - often exhibited for the first time - are waiting to be discovered from the archives of Bestattung und Friedhöfe Wien. Among other things, you can see an original fourgon (carriage for the transport of dead bodies) from the time around the turn of the century, numerous uniforms of the lavish costume according to the Spanish court ceremonial up to the simple gown of the present. Quirky relics from a time when people feared to be buried alive like a heart knife and a rescue alarm clock. A folding coffin from 1784, from the time of Joseph II, gives an idea of ​​how Mozart was buried. An invoice from the imperial court is issued as a piece of contemporary history for the transfer and burial of Franz Ferdinand and his wife after the Sarajevo assassination attempt. Interactive and multimedia It is not just the location that is new, under the historic Aufbahrungshalle two at the Vienna Central Cemetery. Overall, the entire exhibition is presented in a new, interactive and significantly more modern guise. Thirteen monitors show videos, mostly material that has never been shown, on various topics such as film clips from the Austrian film archive with newly discovered and restored material from the funeral of Franz Joseph I and the magnificent funeral procession for Albert Baron Rothschild. The videos complement the exhibited objects and place them in a context at the time they came from. An installation of media elements and real objects show party slips from different centuries. Perspective representations, which are created from backdrop elements, lighting scenes and 3D video overlays, present the splendor of the burial in high society at the turn of the last century. An audio station enables the audience to listen to the currently most popular songs for burials. Showcases, multimedia stations, the opportunity to be guided through the museum's stations by an audio guide and much more, round off the offer and make a visit to the funeral museum at Vienna's Central Cemetery an incomparable experience. The unique location in the second largest cemetery in Europe, the Vienna Central Cemetery, invites you to a subsequent tour.

Extremely interesting small museum about Austrian tradition of funerals.

A true hidden gem in Vienna! The funeral museum is really fascinating and it’s worth the visit. P.S. find the funeral bell and read about it