Sisi Museum and Hofburg tickets: €15 for the Imperial Apartments while the museum rooms are closed to 18 November, and the new route opens on 19 November

💡 The Short Version: The Sisi Museum’s day ticket is €15 for the museum and the Imperial Apartments, on a fixed admission time, and the Schönbrunn Group says real tickets are sold online only at imperialtickets.com. From 6 October to 18 November 2026 the museum rooms are closed and only the Imperial Apartments are open (10:00 to 16:30). The new route opens on 19 November with 12 added rooms, and the operator changes its prices that day. The Imperial Treasury is a separate €16 timed ticket, closed on Tuesdays. Or book a tour: the Sisi Museum, Hofburg and gardens tourad (from €52.16) and the Hofburg and Empress Sisi Museum tourad (from €42) include a guide. To see the new rooms, book any ticket or tour for 19 November or later.

The tickets, compared

Prices are the adult rate from the Sisi Museum and the Imperial Treasury. The Hofburg has no single ticket: each part sells its own.

• Concessions: the Sisi Museum asks students aged 19 to 25 for an international student card, and a person accompanying a blind or vision-impaired visitor or a wheelchair user enters free.
• Buy online. The ticket has a fixed time, and there may be waits at busy periods without one.
• The Silver Collection has been closed since 1 April 2023, and the operator’s ticket page says it stays closed until further notice.

What changes on 19 November

The museum section of the Sisi Museum is closed from 6 October to 18 November 2026 for the last phase of its redesign. The Imperial Apartments, the authentic rooms of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, stay open daily from 10:00 to 16:30, and the ticket office closes at 16:00.

The redesigned route opens on 19 November 2026. The Schönbrunn Group’s announcement says it will run the Sisi Museum and the Imperial Apartments as one route, add 12 rooms and about 700 square metres, and open five restored white-and-gold rooms that have never been shown to the public. A new staircase in the Marschallhof gives a step-free route. Prices change on 19 November.

• To 18 November: €15 for the Imperial Apartments, with the museum rooms closed.
• From 19 November: book for that date or later to see the new route.

Tours worth paying for

The day ticket comes with an audio guide. The tours below add a guide, and they are GetYourGuide products, not the Hofburg’s own. Prices are its lowest “from” prices, per person.

Skip-the-line Sisi Museum, Hofburg and gardens tour

From €52.16 · 8,002 reviews · 2 to 2.5 hours

Vienna: Skip-the-Line Sisi Museum, Hofburg and Gardens Tourad is GetYourGuide’s biggest Hofburg product. It costs €37.16 above the museum’s €15 day ticket, for the guide and the gardens.

Hofburg and Empress Sisi Museum tours

From €42 · 1,201 reviews · 2 hours

Vienna: Skip-the-Line Hofburg and Empress Sisi Museum Tourad is a 2-hour guided visit. Vienna: Hofburg and Empress Sisi Museum Guided Tourad is from €48 with 1,665 reviews.

The Imperial Treasury

From €16 · 1,994 reviews

Vienna: Imperial Treasury in the Hofburg Palacead is the entry ticket at the Treasury’s own €16 online price.

The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire in the Imperial Treasury. Photo: Bede735c, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

What to see

The Hofburg is a complex of separate museums, each with its own ticket. Book the Sisi Museum for a morning, then walk to the Treasury.

The dome of the Michaelertor at the Hofburg. Photo: Dr. Bernd Gross, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Imperial Apartments. The living quarters of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, with an audio guide. They stay open while the museum rooms are closed.
2. The Sisi Museum (from 19 November). The rooms about Elisabeth’s personality and her life at court, redesigned and extended to 12 more rooms.
3. The Imperial Treasury. The Austrian Imperial Crown and the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, the coronation robes, the treasure of the Order of the Golden Fleece, an agate bowl once believed to be the Holy Grail and, the Treasury says, the world’s largest cut emerald. Closed on Tuesdays.
4. The Prunksaal. The Austrian National Library’s State Hall, €12. It is closed on Mondays from October to May, except in December 2026, and stays open until 21:00 on Thursdays.
5. The Vienna Furniture Museum at Andreasgasse 7 is part of the Sisi Pass and needs no reservation.
6. The Spanish Riding School is in the same complex, with its own tickets: see the Spanish Riding School tickets. The Sunday Mass in the Hofburgkapelle is sung by the Vienna Boys’ Choir on some Sundays: see the Vienna Boys’ Choir.

What to skip: the Prunksaal, if you have one Hofburg morning. Take the Imperial Apartments and the Treasury.

A room in the Imperial Apartments. Photo: Hanno Niemus, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Bags: no suitcases, bags, scooters or other bulky objects in the Sisi Museum, and no left-luggage storage. No flash, tripods or selfie sticks.
• Getting there: the Sisi Museum entrance is at the Michaelerkuppel, Hofburg, 1010 Vienna, by the U3 station Herrengasse.
• Prunksaal closures: from 14:00 on Wednesday 21 October and from 15:00 on Friday 30 October 2026 for events, and from 15:00 on 24 December.

The Schönbrunn Group runs the Sisi Museum and Schönbrunn Palace, and the Sisi Pass joins them. The Kunsthistorisches Museum is a short walk away and sells the Treasury in a €32 combination. What to book before you go to Vienna has the closed-day table, and Vienna Pass or Vienna City Card says what the passes cover. 3 days in Vienna fits the Hofburg round Tuesday’s closed Treasury. The Vienna State Opera and St Stephen’s Cathedral are a short walk from the Hofburg, and Vienna walking tours compares the guided walks of the centre. To sleep close by, see hotels near St Stephen’s Cathedral and where to stay in Vienna.