In addition the museum offers an overview of the history of Viennese cabinet making and interior decoration, from purveyors to the Imperial Household to well-known artists of the early 20th century, Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner, who characterized the domestic architecture of Vienna.

Because the Habsburgs furnished their residences and palaces in accordance with the style of the period and their own aesthetic taste, 160,000 items ended up in the exhibition.

After the end of the Danube monarchy in 1919 the entire imperial furniture collection was transferred to the Republic of Austria.

Today a large number of original items of furniture belonging to the Habsburgs may be seen in the museum, from commodes to imperial thrones.

Even exhibits that appear strange today can be seen, such as the spittoons that were de rigueur a hundred years ago.