!!!Schatzkammer

Treasury, Secular and Sacred: both located in the Hofburg Palace 
(Schweizerhof) and administered by the Vienna Museum of Art History. 
It also contains the oldest and most important historical collection 
in Austria, including the Imperial insignia of the Holy Roman Empire, 
the insignia of the House of Habsburg (after 1804 the insignia of 
Imperial Austria) and treasures such as the Order of the Golden Fleece 
and the Burgundian collection of ecclesiastical vestments. The sacred 
treasury includes ecclesiastical vestments and objects used during 
Holy Mass in the Hofburg chapel as well as the Habsburg treasures of 
the Capuchin church; objects used during Holy Mass, holy relics and 
vestments from the 12%%sup th/%  century onward have also been 
included since 1922.

!Literature
Weltliche und Geistliche Schatzkammer, Bildfuehrer, ed. by 
Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1987.


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