Café Museum

The Café Museum is a cafe in the Operngasse 7 in the 1st district of Vienna Innere city, which opened in 1899 and quickly became a meeting place of the Viennese artists. The original interior designed Adolf Loos.

History

The Café Museum is housed in a rental house that was built in 1872 by architect Otto Thienemann. The Coffee Shop features stood out in his opening in 1899 by then-dominant opulent decorative style with its simplicity and practicality, which was further emphasized by bentwood chairs and tables by Thonet. The style of the café gave him soon after its opening, coined by Ludwig Hevesi nickname " Cafe nihilism " one.

Among the regulars of the café were in the early 20th century, inter alia, Peter Altenberg, Alban Berg, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Karl Kraus, Franz Lehár, Robert Musil, Leo Perutz, Joseph Roth, Roda Roda, Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, Otto Wagner and Franz Werfel.

At the beginning of the 1930s designed Josef Zotti the cafe again. 2003, rebuilding took place but again, the design of Adolf Loos was reconstructed. End of 2009, the Café Museum was closed. After the takeover by the restaurateurs Irmgard and Berndt transverse field in the summer of 2010 and a complete renovation - following the establishment of Josef Zotti - the Café Museum was reopened on October 18, 2010.