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The Albertina is a Museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna , Austria . It houses one of the largest and most important Graphic Arts collections in the world with approximately 65,000 designs and approximately 1 million Pressure Graphic sheets. HISTORY Vienna's Albertina was erected on one of the last remaining section of the . It was therefore also known as ''Palais Taroucca''. The building was later taken over by Duke Albert Of Saxe-Teschen . He used it as his residence and later brought his collection there from Brussels , where he had acted as the Governor Of The Habsburg Netherlands . For that purpose, he had the building extended by Louis Montoyer . Since then, the palace has immediately bordered the Hofburg . The collection was expanded by Albert's successors. The collection of paintings was created by Duke Albert in the 1770s in the Castle of Bratislava , where he resided as the governor of the Kingdom Of Hungary from 1765 to 1781 . In the 1820s , his heir Archduke Charles initiated further modifications of the building by Joseph Kornhäusel , which affected mostly the interior decoration. After Archduke Charles, Archduke Albert and Archduke Friedrich, Duke Of Teschen lived in the building. In early 1919 , the building and the collection passed from the Habsburg s into the ownership of the Republic of Austria . In 1920 , the collection of pressure graphics was unified with the collection of the former imperial court library. The name Albertina was established in 1921 . In March 1945 , the Albertina was heavily damaged by Bomb attacks. The Albertina was completely refurbished and modernized from 1998 to 2003 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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