Imperial Carriage Museum

The Imperial Carriage Museum (German: Kaiserliche Wagenburg) is a museum of carriages and vehicles used by the imperial household of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. It is housed in the grounds of the Schloss Schönbrunn in the Hietzing district of Vienna and is a department of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Entrance to the Imperial Carriage Museum at Schönbrunn Palace

Carriages inside the museum

The historic name Wagenburg derives from a form of fortification.

Highlights of the exhibition:

• the gilded “Imperial Coach,”
• the Golden Carousel Carriage of Maria Theresia,
• the Child's Phaeton of Napoleon’s son,
• the Black Hearse of the Viennese Court,
• the personal Landaulet of Empress Elisabeth and
• the only preserved Court Automobile of 1914.