Museumsquartier (formerly Mariahilfer Straße until 1991 and Babenbergerstraße from 1991 until 2000) is a station on U2 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.
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| Location | Innere Stadt, Vienna Austria | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°12′09″N 16°21′41″E / 48.2025°N 16.3614°E | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 August 1980 | ||||||||||
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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.
References edit
- ^ Prillinger, Horst. "The Vienna Metro: Line U2 Seestadt - Karlsplatz". The Vienna Metro. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
External links edit
Media related to Museumsquartier metro station at Wikimedia Commons
