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Article: Museum opening of the year: The Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna: the restoration by Prince and Princess Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein of the family's Garden Palace in Vienna as a setting for works of art from the Liechtenstein collection has provided Austria with a major new museum. Andrew Wilton visited the palace, which opened to the public in March.
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Until recently, the Garden Palace of the Princes of Liechtenstein in Rossau, a suburb of Vienna, housed the Museum of Modern Art. It was an incongruous association: One of the great baroque palaces of Europe was home to a collection representing the aesthetic of a very different age, an aesthetic that seemed almost to deny the aristocratic splendour of the building.
Since 2000, that has changed. Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein and his wife, Princess Marie, with their director of collections, Johann Kraftner, and a team of craftsmen, restorers and scholars, have brought the palace back to glittering life; its garden is a vista of shrubs, flowers and ...
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