Undertaker's Museum
A magnificently macabre Viennese funeral museum
Category Memento Mori
It is a well-known fact that the Viennese have a fascination with death. Nowhere can one see this more clearly than at the Undertaker's Museum. On display is an economy coffin, with a flap on the bottom for re-use (the Viennese hated it and rioted), urns, coffins and photographs of corpses dressed up and seated on a chair for one last picture.
A particular delight is the “saving bell,” which, attached to the inside of a coffin, was a protection against being buried alive.
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- Hours Monday - Friday 12-3 by appointment
- Address Goldegasse 19, Vienna, Austria
- Cost Free
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