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The Prunksaal (English: State Hall) is the central structure of the old imperial library and part of the Hofburg palace. The wing is located in-between Josephsplatz to the north and the Burggarten to the south.The Baroque State Hall is one of the world’s most beautiful historic libraries. Emperor Charles VI (1685/1711 – 1740) ordered the construction of this jewel of secular Baroque architecture for his Court Library. The State Hall was built from 1723 till 1726 according to the plans of the famous court architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and carried out by his son Joseph Emanuel. The ceiling frescoes were completed in 1730 by the court painter Daniel Gran.
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The Papyrus Museum is a "museum of the cultures of Egypt". It is the written heritage of all those who over the millennia lived on the Nile and experienced the influences of the most varied cultures. That proximity and mixing of cultures is visible with particular clarity in the areas of the cult of the dead, medicine, magic, in the literature, and in the eating habits. Those areas and many others are illustrated in their many facets in the Museum through various exhibitions. In the Papyrus Museum there are about 200 objects on permanent display.
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The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library conveys, on its 80 square meters of museum arranged in a modern style, the vicissitudes of the history of Esperanto, and as well presents in a general way the topic of the relationship of man to language. It was founded in 1927 by Hugo Steiner as an association, then set up by contract in 1928 as a museum and technical library in the Austrian National Library, and opened in 1929 by a solemn government ceremony in the Hofburg. The institution was presented with a wholly new look in 2005 after its transfer into Palais Mollard. For both the library, which had meanwhile grown to become the world’s biggest of its kind, and for the museum items ideal holding conditions in secure and air-conditioned rooms had been created.
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The Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library in Palais Mollard is the world’s only institution in which terrestrial and celestial globes and globes of earth’s moon and various planets are acquired, researched, and presented to the public. In exhibition area, a most comprehensive collection of globes as well as instruments linked with globes (armillary spheres) and instruments in which globes are an integral part (planetaria, telluria, lunaria) is set up and accessible to the public. The opening of the Museum occurred in 1956. Nevertheless it can be proved that globes have been in the former Imperial Court Library as early as the 16th century. The museum also offers the possibility of interactive contact with the materials at computer terminals and a virtual globe.
Text Sources: onb.ac.at and wikipedia.org
