Bezirksmuseum Floridsdorf, District museum in Floridsdorf, Austria.
The Bezirksmuseum Floridsdorf occupies the first floor of the Mautner-Schlössl at Prager Straße 33, a villa built in 1900 in Secessionist style and later given a Baroque look with a red hipped roof. Its rooms cover the landscape left of the Danube, early steam shipping, railway history and the district's local lore.
Georg Heinrich Mautner von Markhof had the villa built in 1900; his son Georg Anton moved in around 1901–02 and later baroqued it, replacing the flat roof with a hipped roof. After the war the City of Vienna bought the building and used it as a temporary Amtshaus because the district office had been bombed. The museum moved in in June 1953, closed in 1957 for adaptation, and reopened on 18 June 1960.
The museum holds part of the Beethoven collection transferred in 2013 from the nearby Erdődy estate after that site stopped functioning as a museum. It also documents Franz Jonas, Austrian federal president from 1965 to 1974, who came from Floridsdorf, and hosts regular musical events.
The museum maintains specific opening hours on select days, so visitors should check the exact times before planning a visit. Tours can be arranged on request to learn more about the exhibitions.
The villa was built in 1900 in Secessionist style for Georg Heinrich Mautner von Markhof; his son Georg Anton had it baroquised after his father's death, replacing the flat roof with today's hipped roof, which is why locals call it Mautner-Schlössl. Architect Friedrich Dietz von Weidenberg was responsible for the design.
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