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thousand maps. The jewel office is open three days in the week, during the summer months, to the public. There is also a collection in this court known as the Physico-Astro- nomical Cabinet. This is likewise open to the public, but visitors must make application to the custodian. The Royal Library is situated near the Winter Riding School and contains over three hundred thousand volumes, twelve thousand parchments, twenty thousand manuscripts, and upwards of eight hundred volumes of wood and copper engraving, etc. In the palace, there is also a Cabinet of Zoology and Natural History—one of the richest collections to be found anywhere. The public are admitted one day in the week. A Mineralog- ical Cabinet is attached, beside the Numismatical Cabinet and collections of antiquities. Its collection of specimens of cut- gems stands unrivalled, and the bronzes, vases, gold and silver-work accumulated represent an enormous value.
The Belvidere Gallery is one of the world-renowned art- buildings. Any good guide-book will tell of the works of the old masters collected within its walls, a single one of which would be considered a grand acquisition to any of our modern formed galleries; but they cannot be bought; they are not for sale. At the Belvidere, there is a collection of antique works of art, which forms the complement of the Cabinet of Coins and Antiquities in the Palace (Hoffburg); and, lastly, there is a Museum of Egyptian Antiquities.
The Royal Armory is in the building called Stallburg. This collection includes a fine assortment of all kinds of weapons, and other appurtenances of war, which may be seen daily, free.
There is also a Museum of the Academy of Art, containing a number of valuable engravings, ancient paintings, marbles» and a great assortment of plaster of Paris casts, of considerable merit. This is open, free, once a week.
There are Medical, Botanical, Polytechnic, University» and many private galleries, to which the public can gam admittance.
Prince Liechtenstien’s Picture-gallery contains some twenty-four thousand free-hand drawings,—many by Albert Dürer, and two hundred thousand engravings on copper* This is open twice a week.