Death

Rooms

The Sisi Myth

Death

The tour though the Sisi museum starts with Elisabeths tragic death.

Assassination on Elisabeth

On 10 September 1898 Europe was shocked by the news that Empress Elisabeth of Austria had been assassinated.

Elisabeth’s tragic death was the end of the troubled, unhappy and often misunderstood life of a highly unusual personality. It also made a decisive contribution to the creation of a myth which Elisabeth had fostered while she was alive through her unconventional lifestyle.

ADDIO REGINA - TUA MARI is written in gold lettering on the wreath ribbon, which is issued as a permanent exhibitat the death mask in Sisi Msueum.

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- u. Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Wilfried Gredler

„Der Tod“ – Ausstellungssituation im Sisi Museum

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Edgar Knaack

Schultercape

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Lois Lammerhuber

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- u. Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Lois Lammerhuber

Death

How did the Sisi myth arise? How was it that a beautiful, carefree and unaffected young girl became a disappointed woman eternally searching for some unattainable solace and yearning for death? Let us set off to explore the real personality of the empress!

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Rooms

The Sisi Myth

Death

Assassination on Elisabeth

„Der Tod“ – Ausstellungssituation im Sisi Museum

Schultercape

Death

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