Museumsquartier station explained

Museumsquartier
Style:Wiener Linien
Address:Innere Stadt, Vienna
Country:Austria
Coordinates:48.2025°N 16.3614°W
Opened:30 August 1980
Style2:U2

Museumsquartier (formerly Mariahilfer Straße until 1991 and Babenbergerstraße from 1991 until 2000) is a station on of the Vienna U-Bahn.[1] It is located in the Innere Stadt District. It opened in 1980, using the structure of a pre-metro station opened in 1966 in the same location.

The station is expected to close temporarily from 2020 until 2022 to install platform screen doors in preparation for the transfer of this segment of U2 to the new driverless U5, which will take place between 2025 and 2027.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Vienna Metro: Line U2 Seestadt - Karlsplatz. Prillinger. Horst. The Vienna Metro. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190507090347/https://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/ubahn/english/u2.html. 7 May 2019. 22 April 2020.