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History Museum of Styrian Society - Palais Herberstein
The museum building, Palais Herberstein, is named after its long time former owners, the Counts Herberstein. It came into their possession in 1742, through inheritance. It was Count Johann Leopold Herberstein who commissioned the most important Styrian baroque master builder, Josef Hueber, with its renovation in baroque style, whereas the rococo stucco and stoves were the work of Heinrich Formentini.
In the early 1830s, Caroline of Naples and Sicily, the widow of Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry and heir to the French throne, has lived here for a while. She had secretly married the Italian nobleman, Ettore Carlo Lucchesi-Palli, 8th Duca della Grazia (1805–1864) in 1831. The couple retired later to Brunssee Castle, near Graz, where her husband died there in 1864, and she died in 1870.
The Palais Herberstein passed into the hands of the Styrian government in 1939/1940.
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History Museum of Styrian Society - Palais Herberstein