Palais Trautson

Palais Trautson is a Baroque palace in Vienna, Austria, located at Museumstraße 7.

The land on which the palace is built originally belonged to Countess Maria Margareta Trautson in 1657 and consisted of a small house and a vineyard.

After the Battle of Vienna, During repairs Johann Leopold Donat von Trautson, the prince of Troutson, commissioned Christian Alexander Oedtl to build the palace in 1712.

The Hungarian Guard converted the palace's garden to a riding school and the orangery to the stables.

Since 1920, the Hungarian Historical Institute in Vienna, and since 1924 the Collegium Hungaricum were headquartered in the palace.