A coffin designed for upright sitting on display at the Funeral Museum. — JOE KLAMAR/AFP
Even in midst of a deadly pandemic, the Viennese seek to look death straight in the eye – an attitude on display at a morbidly humorous museum devoted to death and burial.
Right below the funeral parlour of the Austrian capital’s famous Central Cemetery, burial shrouds and coffins have been on display since 1967, making the Vienna Funeral Museum the first museum to trace how we mourn the dead.
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