Liechtenstein Museum [antikvár]

THE HISTORY OF THE PRINCELY COLLECTIONS With the re-opening of the LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM, the world's most important still extant privately owned art collection returns to its original historical location. Until 1938, it and other aristocratic collections in Vienna rivalled the old Imperial Collections that formed the basis of Austria's national museums today. All guides to Vienna from the 19th and early 20th centuries mention the importance of these aristocratic collections, which constituted one of the major attractions of Vienna both as a Habsburg imperial city and in its later guise as the capital of the young republic up until 1938. The Princely Collections were among the most significant of these. Almost immediately after they were first shown shortly after 1700 in the Liechtenstein Majoratspalais, the head of the family's City Palace in Herrengasse,