The Albertina in Vienna's Innere Stadt grew from a 17th-century Hofbauamt building. Count Emanuel Teles Silva-Tarouca refurbished it as his palace in 1744, and Duke Albert Casimir later lived there. Louis Montoyer extended it, and Joseph Kornhäusel altered the interior in the 1820s. Hans Hollein designed an entrance roof, completed in 2008.
The article names no style, materials or dimensions for the building. Count Durazzo gave the duke and his wife nearly 1,000 art pieces in 1776. A socialist government confiscated the building and collection in 1919, and it took the name Albertina in 1921. Bombing damaged it heavily in March 1945.
A refurbishment ran from 1998 to 2003. The Essl Collection was acquired in 2018, and Albertina modern opened in 2020. It is an art museum with a print room, and it had 1,037,347 visitors in 2025. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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