Palais Eskeles, Jewish museum in Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria

Palais Eskeles is a palace in Vienna's Innere Stadt district that now serves as a museum dedicated to Jewish history and culture. The building contains multiple exhibition spaces across several floors displaying collections about Jewish life, traditions, and Vienna's past.

The site belonged to the Dorotheerstift monastery from 1414 and passed through noble owners around 1800, when Constanze Mozart and her sons rented an apartment there between 1805 and 1807. In 1823 the Kaunitz prince ceded the house to the Arnstein and Eskeles bank, founded in 1773 by Bernhard Freiherr von Eskeles. Count Alexander Nákó bought it in 1827 and lived there from 1830, giving it the name Palais Nákó.

The palace demonstrates how Vienna's Jewish community shaped city life across generations and continues to be part of the city's story today. Visitors can observe how the exhibitions convey the roles and contributions these people made to local society.

The museum is located in the city center and is easily accessible by public transportation. Visitors should plan enough time to explore the different exhibition levels and their various collections.

The ceiling painting inside comes from a different Esterházy palace in Mariahilf, once called Palais Kaunitz and later used as the Marianisches Gymnasium until its demolition in 1970. The canvas was moved here, so the museum's ceiling carries the history of another building.