Both the Liechtenstein Palaces in Vienna provide an ideal setting for the works of art on display, giving an authentic impression of the world in which the Princely House lived and amassed its collections: the City Palace on Bankgasse, located at the heart of Vienna, where select works from the neoclassical and Biedermeier eras merge instructively with the history of the Collections, the palace’s construction and the family, and the Garden Palace in Vienna's 9th municipal district with its Sala Terrena, Hercules Hall, the former Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Apartments (which today house the Library) and galleries. The Palace in the Rossau quarter is surrounded by an extensive garden which still evokes a sense of its Baroque origins and where after viewing the permanent exhibition of artworks from the early Renaissance to the High Baroque the visitor can retreat – in the middle of the city – to the verdant oasis of the later landscape garden.
