Inside
What to see inside Schönbrunn Palace
The rooms that justify the Grand Tour, and the ones you can walk past.
Check dates and availability ↗The Great Gallery
Forty metres of white and gold with Guglielmi's ceiling frescoes overhead. It was the ballroom and the audience hall, and it is still the room people stop walking in.
Maria Theresa's apartments
The Grand Tour's real addition. These are her private rooms rather than the state spaces, and they are where the palace stops feeling like a museum.
The Chinese cabinets
Two small round rooms in lacquer and porcelain where Maria Theresa held councils away from the court. Easy to hurry past and worth not hurrying past.
Franz Joseph's rooms
Spartan next to everything around them. The emperor rose at half past four and worked at a plain desk; the contrast with the Rococo next door is the point.