Technisches Museum
The Technisches Museum Wien traces its origins to 1908, when Vienna planned a technical museum to mark the 60th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I’s accession to the throne. The idea was pushed by Wilhelm Exner, after his advocacy for such a museum since the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair, and the project received backing from industrialists and bankers, including the Rothschild bank. Initial studies were prepared by the Historicist architect Emil von Förster, and after his death in 1909 a design competition was held with major figures such as Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Rudolf Tropsch, and Max Ferstel. Otto Wagner won, but Archduke Franz Ferdinand—an opponent of modern art—overruled the result and approved a design closely resembling Förster’s plans. The cornerstone was laid by Emperor Franz Joseph I on June 20, 1909, and the building was completed in 1913, with an opening planned for 1914 delayed by World War I. …
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